I’ve always wondered why? I see not Right to vote (only that it cannot be denied based on Race, Sex, etc.). Also, aside from the House (and then the 17th Amend.), there is no need for the FED to meddle otherwise; it’s a State issue. Elect. Coll. for Prez, States for the Senate, The People for the House....or that’s how it was.
Now, how is mandating a license NOT an infringement?? Much like the Poll Tax, you need to spend $$, let alone get permission from the gov’t, State or otherwise...That equates to a privilege in my book.
Here is where you and I couldn't be farther apart. Owning a gun is a right affirmed to me by the Second Amendment - unfettered, to use a recently overused word.
IMO, that amendment PRECLUDES the Federal Government from mandating ANYTHING about personal ownership of weapons, even the 1934 NFA and additions in 1964.
As for the states requiring licenses, etc. it is more of local matter and these states at least at some point had the approval of its constituents to do it. I don't like it, but there it is and I have learned to live with it because in my state doesn't screw with you over it. You can bet your bippy Georgia would never get an insurance requirement mandate passed.
As far as the Fed goes, if they mandate it, I'll ignore it, just like I would any registration requirement. They'll have to come and get them if they can find them.