The Court held that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms, wholly separate from serving in a militia. 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.The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791. One of the most fraught amendments is the Second Amendment, which preserves the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment guarantees to "the people" the rights "to keep and bear arms. OF RIGHTS 296 (Neil H. Cogan ed. In a different report of the same proceeding, the King's. ○ Why did the Founding generation enshrine the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights? The claim that the Second Amendment was enshrined to protect the peaceable carrying of weapons in public places is relatively new.