I understand. Our second amendment rights are defined and protected by our state constitutions -- always were.
The CA Constitution proves you wrong, paulsen. The 2nd Amendment is part of our supreme Law of the Land. Nothing will ever change that.
My scenario works, and it's not "gloom and doom". It wasn't gloom and doom in Wilmette. Or Morton Grove. Or Chicago. The USSC can incorporate, finding that the individual RKBA is a fundamental right to liberty. Fine. Sometime down the road, the USSC defines "arms" as excluding handguns, leaving everything else. Certainly that's plausible.
No, such a definition would be a clear infringement, repugnant, and void. Neither States nor the people would be bound by it.
My point is that definition can then be used by the gun grabbers as in my post #126. And instead of that definition being applied by one city or even one state, that definition now applies to all 50 states. Don't tell me that incorporation can't make things worse.
'Incorporation' is a legal myth. ALL of our Constitutions Amendments apply to ALL levels of Government & to ALL levels of Officials in the USA, unless otherwise specified.
It's already been done by a lower federal court, tpaine.
LOL!