#SecondAmendment
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
#TenthAmendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People.
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The 2A grants the People their gun rights in the context of their participation in the State Militia in defence of their home State. Against whom? Read on.
The Constitution, on the whole, expressly limits the Federal powers by granting only a few specific powers. These are called the "enumerated powers".
In contrast, the 10A reserves to the States those broad "general powers", so long as those general State powers do not conflict with the enumerated Federal powers.
When these contemporaneous amendments, #2A and #10A, are read in the context of the encompassing Bill of Rights, the textual tenor of the Constitution, and the historical setting, the original intent of the Framers of our #Constitution comes shining through: the Framers expressly chose to limit the #Federal powers so as not to impinge upon the #States' powers, and the regulated, armed Militia manned by the citizens of the State were to provide an armed defence against encroachments upon their home State's rights by the aggressive neighbouring States and by the overbearing Federal government.
Now, reread the current events in the news, under this light.
