Bravo Sierra. The 14th was adopted to grant US citizenship to blacks - a right which had been denied since the Congress wrote the first Naturalization bill.
Historically the BoR was not extended to the states - Madison and Halimlton both argued thuisly, as did Chief Justice John Marshall in Barron v. City of Baltimore,
The powers they conferred on this government were to be exercised by itself, and the limitations on power, if expressed in general terms, are naturally, and we think necessarily, applicable to the government created by the instrument. They are limitations of power granted in the instrument itself, not of distinct governments framed by different persons and for different purposes.The BoR was a limitation of the federal government, not the states, as evidenced by the Preamble to the BoR,
The Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers [the federal government], that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added.
Bravo Sierro yourself. I gave a reference with numerous citations: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Right To Keep and Bear Arms: The Intent of the Framers. You just splattered a baseless opinion.
Historically the BoR was not extended to the states
That's true, although there was always a minority opinion that held otherwise. For one thing, the rights enumerated in the BoR are not granted or created by the Constitution, but rather simply recognized by the BoR as those that intrinsically belong to all human beings, and that restrict the rightful powers of all governments. The States also recognized those rights when they ratified the BoR. But in any case, the adoption of the Fourteenth Ammendment mooted the argument.