Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Gun Owners Foundation today teamed up with the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners to challenge the state’s onerous permitting requirements to purchase handguns as well as New Jersey’s arbitrary “one gun a month” law. [More]
You mean states that signed on to the Constitution might have balked if they saw a list of permissible infringements?
Actually, many of them did balk at the idea that there could be any infringements permitted at all. The story is not written in invisible ink on some Bavarian Illuminati secret document. It’s right in plain sight in the preamble to The Bill of Rights.
https://drexel.edu/ogcr/resources/constitution/amendments/preamble/
“Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.”