Flintlocks and Muskets

Is it reasonable to impose regulations on hand guns while not completely banning them? The right of the people to keep and bear arms is an individual right granted in the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The Second Amendment was not crafted to protect deer hunters, it was crafted to give Americans the blessing of a free State. Our for fathers foremost concerns were the events of the American Revolution and the British troops in Massachusetts collecting muskets and flintlocks from the citizens. In todays world, entrusting the nations sovereignty to the people is a scary thought. The original reason for the Second Amendment was to break the government's military monopoly, guaranteeing the people such fire arms as would be necessary to defend against government's abuse of their inalienable rights, not the right of a deer hunter to hang his trophy over the mantel.
In the next few months the United States Supreme Court will rule on the governments ability to regulate what sort of arms a citizen can keep and bear. This issue is not about gun ownership, it's about too much firepower in the wrong hands, too easy access to guns by criminals and loopholes such as gun shows and background checks.
I am not anti-gun but I've owned very few of them and even then my ownership was limited to my teen years! I even had a Dick Cheney moment as a teenager. While setting in a 1957 Ford Victoria, one of the passengers pointed a 410 shotgun out the rear side window and pulled the trigger, blowing out the glass in the window along with part of the window frame. Making matters even worse, we were in the middle of town setting in the parking lot of the Hardware store where we had stopped to buy more 410 shotgun shells when the Cheney moments occurred. I think I knew there and then that the only gun I was ever meant to own was the Daisy BB gun I got when I was 8 years old.
The Justices of the United States Supreme Court have a rare chance to establish a sensible middle ground on this very hot button issue. The court shouldn't take guns away from people who use them responsibly for sport or self defense nor should it handcuff government's ability to keep the most dangerous weapons out of the hands of the most dangerous people.