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"No one has ever described the Constitution as a marvel of clarity, and the Second Amendment is perhaps one of the worst drafted of all its provisions," noted Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law

This bozo has the nerve to call himself a law professor? Students at UT Law, you deserve a refund. The Constitution has stood for over two hundred years. How many other Western democracies can say that they have been under the same governing document for that time? And contrary to Levinson's statement it is actually a marvel of clarity, when one discounts emanations from the penumbras!

This bozo has the nerve to call himself a law professor? Students at UT Law, you deserve a refund.

You got that right! If the stakes were not so high it would be hilarious.

Read it plain. Like the Founders said to. "Supreme Law of the Land" means exactly that. "... or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding" also means EXACTLY that. When it also states, "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED", with no qualifier on who may not do the infringing, then even a City's "home rule" provision shouldn't be able to nullify that Right's protection.

If your local ordnance says "no open carry of handguns", that is plainly an "infringment". If your States requires you to prove your innocence and pay extra taxes and fines to exercise said Right, that is ALSO an "infringement" as well as a violation of self incrimination.

The current legal fiction does not adhere to this. Nor will you find many justices willing to uphold their Oath under the Constitution and rule this way. The government has entirely too much to lose should things return to the way they should be.