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"De Leon is major factor in CA’s new (anti-)gun laws."

Thanks for mentioning 2A.

In case that you weren't aware of the following concerning 2A and the states, you will probably find it interesting.

Note that the congressional record shows that John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, had used 2A as an example of constitutionally enumerated rights that 14A applied to the states.

See 2A about in the middle of the 2nd column of the following page from the congressional record, that page a part of Bingham’s clarifications of 14A.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=100/llcg100.db&recNum=437

So the states committed themselves to respecting 2A-protected gun rights when they ratified 14A (14A ratified under questionable circumstances).