“The US is supposed to be a decentralized compact of free States, not a centralized leviathan.”
So you think that it would be ok for say, Oregon, to outlaw guns?
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Ok? No. But in theory, they have the power to do so via their State Constitution. The people of Oregon have the sovereign power to surrender various and sundry of their rights to their State if they so choose. That principal is the basis of all our constitutional law, federal and state.