Seems it's not only Valve that can only count to 2... most people who want to tell me about the constitution seem to have that same problem.
It is the opposite of that. The colonies were worried that a newly formed Federal government would become tyrannical. The Bill of Rights was drafted as a response to these concerns. Amendment 2 was designed to ensure that the colonies (now "States") would retain arms rights.
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The Bill of Rights is precisely this throughout, actually: it is just a list of things that the Federal government was NOT allowed to do. And originally, that intrinsically meant it was things States WERE allowed to do. That part got lost in (bad?) 14th Amendment jurisprudence.
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But originally, it would have been your _state_ constitution that would have limited state gun laws. If your _state's_ constitution had strong prohibitions on gun laws, then it would be constrained; if it didn't, it wouldn't be.
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