Originally Posted by frost

So things like banning open carry / concealed carry , banning short barreled guns, DC's ban on having them at all (which was thankfully struck down less than 2 years ago by the supreme court), ammo restrictions, and etcetera don't count as gun control? The reason we have a right to firearms and militias is because it's recognized that the people of the nation may, at some point, need to rise against a tyrannous government, but the government won't let the citizens have access to the same equipment as the military, even with some as basic as automatic weapons. All these restrictions assure that guns are only carried by criminals, because it becomes too tedious for regular people to own and carry them.

And I'm not sure about your comment about states not being able to make state-specific gun laws ... every state has state-specific gun laws.