So why did they also put in a "Supreme Law of the Land" clause and argue about the scope of the Federal Constitution, and all attendant Amendments, over-riding State powers? That to not have it set up that way would make executing any Federal authority at all impossible?
Or will you know cite Cruickshank, a clear case of legislating from the bench if ever the was one, as proof that the Founders didn't mean exactly what they said?
You gun haters are all alike...
Those who are not idiots will know that the BoR was created and passed to mollify the STATES not to impose more controls on them. Besides I am only speaking of what the USSC actually RULED in Barron vs. Baltimore in the 1830s argue with them about it.
As to the Law of the Land it did NOT allow the fedgov to pass laws which were not within the realm of powers delegated to it. States had plenty of powers which they could exercise as long as they did not violate the constituion. And they erected State supported churches, closed newspapers, persecuted their editors (this was a favorite tactic of the Jeffersonians), restricted their citizens freedoms in many areas.
As to your closing stupidity: I love guns it is the gun worshippers I don't care for.