Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Second Amendment

When we no longer need people to keep muskets in their home, then the Second Amendment has no function, its function is to enable the young nation to have people who will fight for it to have weapons that those soldiers will own.  So I view the Second Amendment as rooted in the time totally allied to the need to support a militia.  So...the Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

~ Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, District of Columbia v. Heller, June 26, 2008