You may want to inform the Illinois legislators of that "fact".
At last count, handguns are banned in Chicago, Wilmette, and Morton Grove.
The Morton Grove ban (Quilici v. Village of Morton Grove, 695 F.2d 261 (7th Cir. 1982) was challenged in federal district court as a violation of the second amendment. The district court ruled "that the second amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms has not been incorporated into the fourteenth amendment and, therefore, is inapplicable to Morton Grove."
The case was appealed to the seventh circuit. They said "Since we hold that the second amendment does not apply to the states, we need not consider the scope of its guarantee of the right to bear arms."
Now, perhaps you can tell me where you get, "A state is prohibited from doing the former (outlaw guns)"?
You may want to inform the Illinois legislators of that "fact".
If any of them read FR, I already have.
And I've stated my sound reasons for saying so.
The Supremacy clause binds the judges in every state to everything in the Constitution, and the 2nd Amendment doesn't say that it only restrains congress, it therefore restrains Congress and the States. The 14th "incorporation doctrine" is flawed and redundant.