Letter: Practicing our right to bear arms

In the Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote that any army that threatened liberty would find itself opposed by “a militia amounting to near a half a million citizens with arms in their hands” and argued that the new federal government need not be feared because Americans possessed “the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.”I've heard for decades that the right of citizens to bear arms — any kind of arms