Well it is like this, the Constitution's Bill of Rights didn't prevent states from determining which people were people and which were property. So it seems to me states have a similar right determining what constitutes an "arm" needed to for that well regulated militia.
do you understand what "well regulated" meant in those days?
Hint : it isnt close to todays standards.
A Constitutional scholar you're not.
Article 5, gives the power to the states with a majority in both houses of congress to repeal the entire Constitution.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
But absent repealing the entire document, this article gives the states and congress the power to reject or alter any part of it.
Meaning there is no absolute right to any of it.
But the Supreme Court decided in 2008 in a case in Washington DC:
Heller v DC that an individual has the right to keep a firearm in the home for self defense.
It also gave the states the power to prohibit any firearm it deems "Unusually Dangerous", and can prohibit the carrying of firearms either concealed or openly, and can prohibit the places any firearm may be carried.
In the majority opinion written by the court, it was expressly written that no citizen has the right own or carry for whatever purpose, or the absolute right to any firearm for any reason.
There is no Second Amendment right to own any gun you want, or to be able to carry when you want, where you want.
The court has also turned down three different cases challenging that decision that was handed down in 2008.
If you don't believe it, get caught with the wrong gun, in the wrong place.
