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The 2nd amendment gives us the right to bear arms but leaves it to the states and localities to set up regulations for ownership or not. The localitie

Sorry, but the constitution does not give us any rights, it merely enumerates the rights we are born with. The second amendment is clear "...shall not be infringed" means just that. The state, city or whatever do NOT have the right to regulate the owning or carrying of firearms by law abiding citizens, to do so infringes on those rights which the constitution clearly says they can't do.

Anyone who believes the government, at any level, has the right to regulate firearms and keep citizens from carrying them doesn't know what they are talking about.

If it gives us no rights then we do NOT have the right to free speech, to bear arms and the state or the fed can control speech or firearms in any way they want. We are not born with the right to anything other than the right to live life although the Nazi democrat party has convinced a lot of idiots that we are all born with the right to an education, a job, health care etc. These articles and amendments were specifically written to lay out what little the federal government was responsible for and leave to the people as an organized state or locality responsibility for the rest.

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed".

This, like other procriptions of the Constitution lays out what the FEDERAL government cannot do. The whole concept was to limit what the federal government can do and to leave the details and bulk of the power to the states. The idea of the first clause of the second is that the states can form and regulate a militia; that it must be well regulated and is under state control. This is where we are running into trouble today.

What is not given to the federal government, in this case, is the statutory ability to keep citizens from owning firearms so the regulatory capacity, not the ability to prohibit ownership of weapons, goes to the states. The states can lay out rules and regulations as long as they do not prohibit or do away with the above stated right of the people to keep and bear those arms.

You might not know what you are talking about.