"These armed groups have no authority to call themselves forth into militia service; the Second Amendment does not protect such activity; and all 50 states prohibit it." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/opinion/militias-gretchen-whitmer.html?smid=tw-share

In 1886, the S.C. upheld a state prohibition against “any body of men” outside state or federal governmental authority to “associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to drill or parade w/ arms in any city or town of the state.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/opinion/militias-gretchen-whitmer.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Scalia's majority opinion in the 2008 Heller decision, while finding that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to keep arms, also insisted that the ruling "does not prevent the prohibition of private paramilitary organizations.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/opinion/militias-gretchen-whitmer.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

"There is no right in any state for groups of individuals to arm themselves and organize either to oppose or augment the government." As Election Day nears, the question is: will state governments enforce their laws?