Despite that I myself responded otherwise in the hypothetical discussion of post +97, it is actually not an uncommon use of "being" to refer to the reaching of a status without necessarily the continued existence in it. But the word "right" here can clarify the intention to be about the continued necessity.
Also, the more reasonable way to understand the part before "the right", as being about reaching the status of necessity of the militia and not necessarily the continuous having of that necessity, seems to come from understanding that part as being about the militia itself not the situation in general. This could fit with the use, talked about earlier, of the comma after "A well regulated militia", in order not to make "being necessary to the security of a free State" about the militia itself, in showing one specific reason why.
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