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Here are few things you may want to know about gun control, State Constitutions, and the Bill of Rights.

1. The Constitution of the United States is a compact developed and ratified by the people of the several States to create a new Federal Government. It delegates strict, limited, and enumerated powers to the Federal Government, reserving ALL powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, to the States respectively, or to the people.

2. The Bill of Rights is a restriction on the Federal Government -- ONLY.
The SCOTUS affirmed that understanding for over 130 years up until the 20th century, when the litany of progressive judges started to take over the judiciary.

3. States can regulate guns, period.
State Constitutions such as New York's have no clause protecting the citizens of that State's right to keep and bear arms; none.
And in States that do protect the right to keep and bear arms, they still control regulation.

The Texas Constitution reads:

Art. 1 Sec. 23. RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in the lawful defense of himself or the State; but the Legislature shall have power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.

4. If you believe that the Federal Government has the power to legislate gun control, or any other part of the Bill of Rights, across all 50 States, regardless of that State's wishes, you are a supporter of the Incorporation Doctrine.

5. If you believe that the individual States are empowered to do as the citizens of those States choose, then you are an originalist, and we should all be originalists.