I do not understand how "being" in the second amendment was understood to refer to an always existing status. "being" is about being.So it always refer directly to the current status. It is only when that status wont change with time that reference would indirectly expand to all time. The significance in that those who made the amendment were pointing directly to only the current status should not be ignored. They could have chosen words like "because" to make an all time direct reference instead of pinpointing directly to only their current time.
It is not far from normal when people limit themselves to what is needed for their time and understand "being" to mean "because" but that changed to become no longer applicable a long time ago.
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