George Washington and Bearing Arms

I ran across this quotation from George Washington's first (state of the union) address to Congress. Apparently sometimes Second Amendment advocates have modified it to make it clearly support an individual right to bear arms.

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."

I think I've done enough reading in the period to know what he was talking about.  When he took command of the military forces besieging the British in Boston there was a desperate shortage of gunpowder and arms.  The Continental Congress was desperately searching for supplies,  within the colonies, elsewhere in the British empire, in the Americas and in Europe.  

Throughout the Revolution Washington was forced to use colonial militia forces, called up for short periods of time, often poorly armed by the local governments and poorly trained during their periodic muster days.  He did not like the militia.

So what he's calling for in this sentence is a well-armed and organized military force, equipped with American made weapons and supplied with American made gunpowder, clothing and other gear. In other words, the full meaning of the Second Amendment.