If our founding fathers had written the 2A "better"...

[RetiredUSNChief]

Maine puts it a little more bluntly;

Article I, Section 16 of the State of Maine Constitution states that “Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned."

Fascinating!

I had to look up some other states. In South Carolina the wording is a bit different:

Article I, Section 20: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. As, in times of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they shall not be maintained without the consent of the General Assembly. The military power of the State shall always be held in subordination to the civil authority and be governed by it. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner nor in time of war but in the manner prescribed by law.

Indiana, the state I was born and raised in:

Article I, Section 32: The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State.


A cool link for state constitutional rights to bear arms:

http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/beararms/statecon.htm





EDIT:

Also interesting to note what the Illinois state constitution, Article I, Section 22, has to say about this:

Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.


Things that make you say "Hmmm..."

 

[gunnutery]

We've been trying to get something similar to the 2nd Amendment put into the Iowa Constitution. It usually dies in committee. Mind you, in the event that the US.gov no longer existed, no one is coming for our guns even though it's not in our state Constitution.

On another good note, no one is rushing to introduce anti-gun legislation at the state level here either, and it wouldn't go far if it was introduced.