[lepton]

Two U.S. Supreme Court cases after the 14 th Amendment ruled that the Second Amendment restricts the federal govt. only (Cruikshank in 1875 and Presser in 1886).

The opinion addresses that, by lumping Cruikshank in as a "pre-incorporation" ruling. I.E. the basis for the ruling was overturned by later SC rulings, although the specific ruling was never readdressed.

[NovemberCharlie]

Not quite; Cruikshank did not involve the states' obedience to the Bill of Rights, because it was a federal law involved. What Criukshank said was that the 14th Amendment protected citizens from state actors, not private individuals. (Cruikshank et al. were accused of violating the civil rights of several black citizens, but the Court ruled that was impossible; in fact they had merely committed the more mundane crime of murder, whose prosecution was not within the authority of the United States; that was the state's job.)