Both were zapped by the 14th Amendment, which was passed in part to counter laws restricting freedmen from owning guns granted, the Supremes almost immediately

Both were zapped by the 14th Amendment, which was passed in part to counter laws restricting freedmen from owning guns granted, the Supremes almost immediately judicially nullified it. The recent McDonald decision zapping the Chicago and some of it's suburbs bans on gun ownership made that explicit SCOTUS writ ... where in an interesting wrinkle, the gun owner's advocate offered the Supremes a chance to reverse the prior nullification, which in part made their decision another beloved "compromise".