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Originally Posted by RC20
The reality is that use has been restricted from some time. And States do have rights as well. Somewhere in that mix is a logical compromise as its quite a muddled field.
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States' rights.
But the
McDonald case established that the 2nd Amendment applies to the states as well as to the federal government. So what's missing is a few good cases (before an objective, originalist, textualist Supreme Court) that clarifies the extent to which states can regulate (
i.e. "infringe") the 2nd Amendment. Justice Scalia opined that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited (a point with which I disagree), but neither
Heller nor
McDonald made any attempt to define where the line is drawn between permissible regulation and unconstitutional infringement.