re: Permits to Purchase or Carry Arms are Infringements of Second Amendment Rights

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That's right, but not for the reason you think. The 2A (and all of the Bill) were intended as limits on the FEDGOV's power. That is to say - explicitly - the states were free to regulate/ban firearms all they wanted.

Then the "activist" courts - which you no doubt hate - came along and started "incorporating" amendments one by one.

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No. Those amendments reach down to the states as well. You seem to be suggesting that things like the 8th amendment doesn't attach to the states and they can just torture people if they want to, and so forth. I don't think that's a correct reading of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and so forth. If you look at the things said by the Founders, the way the Constitution was written, the dialog about the Bill of Rights, and the language in those amendments, it seems obvious that the States were not put in a completely separate sphere with regard to the rights presented in the founding documents.

“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against any government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference.”

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787