The most recent Second Amendment article directly contradicting the academic historians is The American Revolutionary Era Origin of the Second Amendment’s Clauses, which was published in the JOURNAL ON FIREARMS & PUBLIC POLICY (Vol. 23, 2011). It is available online at:
http://www.secondamendmentinfo.com/Journal/index.html

Jefferson was dissatisfied with the adopted constitution because it omitted any security against a standing army. The Second Amendment dealt with this exact complaint.

Francis Bird of MA in 1853 probably explained it better than anyone today can when he said:

“To keep and bear arms, not for self-defence, not for ‘military instruction,’ not for ‘special service in keeping guard;’ but as members of a ‘well regulated’ [State] militia. This was the very purpose of adopting this second amendment to the federal constitution—to put this matter of the independence of the State militia beyond the domain of controversy; and this is the right guaranteed by this amendment, the right of the people to bear arms, not for ‘making defence under special exigencies,’ which could in no possible manner come under the control of Congress, and needed no guarantee, but to bear them as a part of the military power of the State.”

http://symonsez.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/gun-control-advocates-snubbed-forever-as-us-government-arms-the-nation/