Unlike the other provisions of our Bill of Rights the Supreme Court did not apply it to the states until very recent times in the Heller and McDonald cases. That previously allowed states to wrongfully regulate or restrict our rights to keep and carry weapons. The failure to incorporate that right was in my opinion a deliberate effort by gun haters on the court to derail our liberty. Thankfully Heller and McDonald rulings finally rectified that problem. Our constitutional rights can't be licensed, taxed or otherwise infringed. They can be regulated only to the extent of people victimizing innocents. Yelling fire in a crowded theater or using a weapon to injure or kill someone unjustifiably are examples of regulation. As for weapons the Second amendment was not as some fools want to believe a vehicle for arming the government. The militia was never the government! The government already had the power to arm itself. The idea of the se...