The anti-Negro freed slave roots of gun legislation is not relevant.It says, government has the right to register guns, license gun owners, require training
State governments do and always have for the most part; see Cramer's essays on 'The Racist Roots of Gun Control'. the issue is one the 'states' righters' always step all over their own arguments and pretend they didn't and their views are all perfectly compatible with each other. I'm personally just fine with firearm ownership; I'm fine with some sort of safety standards and screening restrictions, but that doesn't make me obligated to agree with stupid cognitively dissonant rubbish re original intent.
It is a historical fact but simply not relevant.
The relevant issue is that (1) Negroes have been freed from slavery, (2) Negroes are all over America now, (3) crime rates by Negroes are high everywhere, (4) when you outlaw guns only outlaws including Negro outlaws will have guns.
States like California and NYS which have de facto outlawed public possession of guns in public by their residents have made their residents easy meat for outlaw Negroes with guns everywhere.
Their state legislatures don't get it.