A little something called the Fourteenth Amendment changed all that. Look at the date on that case.
Nearly every major right protected by the Bill of Rights has been held to be incorporated by the 14th. Just about the only ones that haven't have just not come up for consideration yet.
Sotomayor's opinion on the 2nd amendment completely ignores 150 years of 14th amendment jurisprudence, doesn't even raise the issue. That is intellectually dishonest, and just another reason why she shouldn't sit on ANY court.
At this point in time it does not apply to the states. Hopefully in the very near future it will. The SC possessed just enough idiocy to not incorporate the entire BOR at once, but that doesn’t change the fact that they did not do so. The law at this time is on her side. If she is confirmed hopefully she will find herself on the short side when this comes before them.
Just what I was going to say - the 14th Amendment binds the states to upholding the bill of rights. ITs funny how when we’re talking about abortion these people don’t want the states to have any say, but when it comes to gun rights they are suddenly in favor of states making their own determinations - and on top of that abortion isn’t in the Constitution and gun rights specifically are. These people are completely intellectually dishonest.
Bovine scat.
Look at the date on that case.
What case? No United States Supreme Court decision has ever applied the Second Amendment to the states.