[JustSayNoToNannies]

So you are comfortable with the states having the authority to ban firearms?

I neglected to dot my i's in my previous post by noting that the 14th Amendment extended Bill of Rights restrictions to state governments. But if states want to have, say, California's onerous 'environmental' regulations, nothing in the federal Constitution prohibits that.

[Dead Corpse]

I neglected to dot my i's in my previous post by noting that the 14th Amendment extended Bill of Rights restrictions to state governments.

The 14th was only "necessary" because of deliberate misinterpretation of Art 6 para 2. Also, selective incorporation of the 14th has only made matters worse. Under ratification, the 14th should have applied everywhere within the US under Art 6's Supremacy clause requiring no judicial review to allow it force.

Judicial activism planted the seeds of our own destruction early in the life of our Republic. We are now seeing those seed sprout their deadly fruit...