The Constitution does no such thing. The Bill of Rights merely states that the inherent and existing right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed by the Federal government.
Long-held by who? Liberals. And even liberal scholars have come to the conclusion that the whackjob liberals who maintain this non-sequitur position are wrong. Laurence Tribe, among others, have come to the conclusion that the text in the second amendment means what it says. This author exhibits extreme bias.
Who do they cite as their 'scholar'? "Franklin Zimring, a preeminent scholar on gun law at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, said in an interview." That's right, boys and girls -- they hold Frank Zimring, an unknown scholar at BERKLEY of all places, in higher esteem than Laurence Tribe, who is the NATIONS best known and most widely acknowledged authority on Constitutional Law.
The LA Slimes does not even bother to hide their bias, unsupportable premises, and incongruent conclusions.
This is the last line in the article. As you might already known, in journalism, this is called the 'stinger'. It is intended that this is the message you take away from a given article. You can often tell how extremely biased an author is by examining the very last sentence.
So, what do we have? We have this LA Slimes creep citing an unknown Berkley professor and a bunch of gun-control freaks, using the terms "radical" and "deeply troubling" and so on in this article. It is absurd, and it is indicative of the reason that the LA Slimes and other papers are losing circulation by 5 to 7 percent in a single year. The sooner these Socialist, Statist propaganda rags fold, the better.