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The founders envisioned and intended for the average able bodied law abiding male to have access to and possession of a basic infantry weapon which today, if you take that literally, means and M4 with M203 attached and the ammunition to run it. It is debatable whether it would include a SAW or LAW, but I would think not, and that those items in modern terms would be kept at the armory run by the local militia for use in a major engagements.

States rights were all but eliminated when the War of Northern Aggression (better know as the Civil War) was declared won by the North. Had the war come to a stalemate and meaningful fruitful negations undertaken, the Federal Government would not be bullying the states as they do now. I have no doubt that the states would have reunited under better terms that would have led to the eventual elimination of slavery anyway. Although slavery was a big issue in the Civil War, it was really a war of State's rights verses Federal powers. Texas made a really big mistake by not staying out of the whole mess and I believe this decision is what eventually led to Sam Houston's death in 1863 - he was heart broken and had strongly advised on staying neutral.