I find articles like this funny because it most certainly was because of militias and that is why they are specifically mentioned in the amendment and its also because they actually were worried about the democracy sliding back into something like fuedalism. The article is interesting but if it was one state it would not be number two out of ten and as they like to say. por que no los dos. Even then though I would say it was a done deal given the war and even madison talks about the importance for there to be an armed populace in the federalist papers.