Josepi wrote:
Looks like the "mini" gun controls are quite frequently found in USA
despite any constitutional statements or laws based on them.

What does a gun carrier do then? Leave the loaded gun in his/her car
for the criminal to have easy access?

Interesting.



Sure. Constitutional "rights" are limits on what GOVERNMENT can do, not what
a private person can do.

For example, the 1st Amendment starts "CONGRESS shall make no law..." This
says that the FEDERAL government cannot prohibit freedom of the press. An
individual employer can, for example, limit the hell out of what you
publish, even on your own time. A school cannot sanction a student for what
a student writes on a facebook page, but your boss can sure fire you for
saying the same thing.

For the first 150 years, or so, the Bill of Rights applied ONLY to the
federal government. States were free to have a state-sponsored church or
whatever. In 1925, the Supreme Court began "incorporating" these rights
against the states. The latest to be incorporated (2010) was the 2nd
Amendment in that it is now binding on the states.

There are still a few items in the BOR that are still NOT binding on the
states. States can still impose excessive bail, dispense with indictment by
a grand jury or a jury trial in civil cases, and can quarter troops in
private homes during peacetime.