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It's dumb, but in fairness the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states until 1868 (and the 2A was only held to apply to the states in 2010). At the founding states did establish their own religion and did restrict the rights of certain people to bear arms (native Americans, Catholics, loyalists). Further, the framers probably did care more about preserving the states' militias than protecting an individual right to bear arms from the federal law. Scalia said while that may be true, the vehicle the framers used to protect the militas was enshrining an individual right to arms in the Constitution.
