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United States v. Cruikshank, 92 US 542 (1875)

The US Supreme Court held that gun control regulation was a state's rights issue, and that the Second Amendment didn't apply to the states.

[The Second Amendment was subsequently incorporated to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause in McDonald v. Chicago, 561 US ___ (2010), in a decision released June 28, 2010.]

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