Seven States Failing to Protect 'Right to Keep and Bear Arms,' Says Lawyer

I was under the impression that Amendments prohibiting something to the Federals also applied down to the States

They were only restrictions on the powers delegated to the federal government.
There has been a selective judicial "incorporation" of portions of the BOR through the 14th Amendment. - roscoe -

As you can see, roscoe has a curious 'selective' vision of the bill of rights. He wants states to have the ability to ignore them, for his own strange undefined reasons.

-- He doesn't believe that governments do not have the power to -- "deprive any person of life, liberty, and property without due process of law."

Incredibly, he denies his own constitution.

"But it is universally understood, it is a part of the history of the day, that the great revolution which established the constitution of the United States, was not effected without immense opposition. Serious fears were extensively entertained that those powers which the patriot statesmen, who then watched over the interests of our country, deemed essential to union, and to the attainment of those invaluable objects for which union was sought, might be exercised in a manner dangerous to liberty. In almost every convention by which the constitution was adopted, amendments to guard against the abuse of power were recommended. These amendments demanded security against the apprehended encroachments of the general government--not against those of the local governments." -Barron v. Baltimore, 7 Pet. 243 (1833)
"The Second Amendment declares that it shall not be infringed, but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress." - US Supreme Court, United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876), Presser v. State of Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886)

You're never too old to learn.

The inane 'facts' you keep reposting do not change the REAL fact that the BOR's applies to federal, local & state governments.

The constitution is the "Law of the Land". [see article VI.]

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