Xylaria

Kyle Rittenhouse ran afoul of gun control laws in possessing and handling a gun he did not own nor have a license to use. He was acquitted on all counts, including gun control laws he flagrantly broke.

My read of the history behind the second amendment is that its purpose was to guarantee an armed middle class: in the South to supply people for slave-hunting parties or to help put down slave revolts, and in the North to supply people for ad-hoc militias to put down tax revolts or other insurrection among the rural poor. (See Federalist 29)

That sentence reads a bit differently in modern US usage, because the term "middle class" has been stretched all out of proportion these days, but by that term I mean people with enough money to not be poor at the moment but with little enough that some disruption or upheaval could throw them back into poverty. That is, those people who are naturally conservative because they really have quite a bit to lose.