[An.American.Expatriate]

Theoretical question for you . . .

if the Second Amendment had not been ratified, would the federal / state governments have the power to regulate the RKBA issue??

[Double Tap]

NO.

The Second does not grant anything. It enumerates a preexisting right.

[Dead Corpse]

Only if the State governement were given specific charter to do so in their respective State Constitutions. The clause here in Texas is "technically" inoperative for as long as the US Constitution supercedes it.

Yes... I am also aware that the Courts of today don't see things that way. That is because they are basing their decisions on almost a century of increasingly screwed up rulings.