What is gun control?

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44. What is your concept of Federalism?

If, therefore, as has been elsewhere remarked, the people should in future become more partial to the federal than to the State governments, the change can only result from such manifest and irresistible proofs of a better administration, as will overcome all their antecedent propensities. And in that case, the people ought not surely to be precluded from giving most of their confidence where they may discover it to be most due; but even in that case the State governments could have little to apprehend, because it is only within a certain sphere that the federal power can, in the nature of things, be advantageously administered.

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa46.htm

Fortunately, the well-regulation of the "Militia" seems to be within that sphere. Madison also posits that "the federal and State governments are in fact but different agents and trustees of the people, constituted with different powers, and designed for different purposes." Clearly, the issue of national defense and the role of the Militia thereof is within the purview of the Federal Government, which literally is of and for the people.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.