AMENDMENT I: CONGRESS shall make no law...
AMENDMENT II: The right OF THE PEOPLE shall not...
Kindly note the difference.
AMENDMENT I: CONGRESS shall make no law...
AMENDMENT II: The right OF THE PEOPLE shall not...
Exactly. Early state court decisions quoted the Second Amendment as applying to the States.
Also note that the Constitution guarantees a “Republican” form of government in the states, and the first clause of the Second Amendment notes that a “well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state” implies that each state needs to be able to form militias in order to remain free.
They could not form militias without the right to keep and bear arms.