Can someone tell me where in the 2nd amendment it says you can carry machine guns?

[Minimalist]

To place any dependence on the Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender Scenes of domestic life; unaccustomed to the din of Arms; totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill, which being followed by a want of confidence in themselves, when opposed to Troops regularly trained, disciplined, and appointed, superior in knowledge and superior in Arms, makes them timid, and ready to fly from their own shadows ... if I was called upon to declare upon Oath, whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole, I should subscribe to the latter.

General George Washington

That the "Minutemen" were a decisive factor in the Revolution is mere 'Murrican mythology.  When Washington assumed command of the "army" he was horrified at the conditions he found.

At Cowpens, Commander Daniel Morgan told his militia men "Boys, give me two shots and then you are free to fall back."  That meant the one they started the battle with and one reload.  Then they could run away.  [Usually they ran away before that!)

We 'murricans do so love our fantasies.