manta49;
The United States of America is set up a bit different than the rest of the world. Note the word “state” in the name.
The true and historical meaning of a state is that it is a geo-political entity with no higher secular authority. It is sovereign. France is a state. Italy is a state. Spain is a state. That’s why we call the ruler of these, elected or by decree or by heritage, a Head of State.
Some countries call their political divisions states: Mexico, Brazil, even Australia which is not itself a state calls its divisions states. This is not correct. Canada calls its divisions provinces which is more correct, but even that is a bit iffy because Canada itself is an autonomous territory of England and might more correctly be called a province.
Our Declaration of Independence did not create the USA. Our Constitution did not create the USA. We have only one document which created us: The Articles of Confederation. Without that the USA does not have a name, does not have defined boundaries, has no explanation of what it is, and does not even exist.
The Articles of Confederation declares in its title that it is an agreement between states. It also declares that each state shall retain its freedom, independence, and sovereignty. It was this declaration which allowed our Southern States to secede from the Union and which the Union ignored to start our States War; referred to by the Union as a civil war, which it wasn’t. The only civil war we’ve had was the American Revolution.
However, the Articles of Confederation gives our states more power than that held by other political divisions of most countries; and there’s the rub. Our states, supposedly, can make their own laws as long as these do not violate the Constitution. Yeah, right. Well, almost every state has violated the Constitution and it’s a hard task to get back the freedoms our Founding Fathers gave us.
Through the first half of the twentieth century we kept loosing more and more freedoms as “bad laws for a good reason” were enacted. The National Rifle Association (NRA) helped do this by its attitude that guns should be for sporting only. It took the Cincinnati Revolution to turn around the NRA and it’s now fighting to reverse what it helped cause. (The Cincinnati Revolution was when the old bosses got kicked out and a new bunch took over.)
The words of our Second Amendment “shall not be infringed” means that not only shall our gun rights not be changed but legislation shall not even get close to changing these.
We’re slowly getting our rights back and it’s at least changed from “One step forward and two back.” to “Two steps forward and one back.”.
Now for your question (after my long rant about history):
Is it right that in some states there is a limit on magazine capacity for handguns. ?
No, it isn’t right because “shall not be infringed” means the same thing today as it meant back then and regulating anything about the armaments of our citizens is infringement.