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I did in fact read it last time, however your response indicates that you did not read mine, so please take this opportunity to reread my comment. There is a link there that you clearly did not read last time, so please take this opportunity to do so.
Since it seems likely that you will not, I will simplify for your benefit:
Johnson's Dictionary was the main English dictionary when the founders wrote the Constitution.
Dictionaries list the accepted definitions of words at the time those dictionaries were written.
Johnson's Dictionary defines regulate as I have (which makes obvious sense since I copied and pasted my definition from it).
Therefore, the definition I provided was the accepted definition at the time the founders wrote the Constitution (also for thousands of years beforehand since it derives from a minimally altered Latin root).
Q.E.D.
My comment was not about the modern definition, but about how the word was defined in the mid 18th century (which you would know if you looked at the link I provided).
I understand that there is a great deal of gun lobby propaganda which has tried to revise history and pretend that (certain) words had drastically different definitions in the past in order to maximize their market. I understand that propaganda can look very convincing, especially when a great deal of money comes into the equation and even politicians and judges are compromised.
Please use your brain to evaluate claims, even when they're disseminated by CNN.