...of the Second Amendment was "to insure the viability of state militias." The unanimous Court stated, In the absence of any evidence tending to show that...relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear...

...commerce. The Court rejected the challenge. The Miller Court concluded "/« the absence of any evidence to show that possession or use of a shotgun having...relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear...

...establish the legitimacy of the law in question. There was no evidence that sawed-off shotguns have "some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia." Hence the Court could not "say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such...

...Justice James McReynolds's opinion cited the Aymette decision in support of his central conclusion: In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a [sawed-off shotgun] at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency...

...that the prohibition of sawed-off shotguns under the National Firearms Act of 1 934 did not violate the Second Amendment in the absence of any evidence...having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" had some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia. [f]...

...and held that the statute properly prohibited the interstate transportation of firearms, and said: In the absence of any evidence tending to show that...or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than 18 inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency...

...dealing in used firearms. (2) "Department" means the Department of Public Safety. (3) "Firearm" means a shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length; a rifle having a barrel of less than sixteen inches in length; any weapon made from either a rifle...