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  2. Right to keep and bear arms - Wikipedia

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    The Bill of Rights 1689 allowed Protestant citizens of England to "have Arms for their Defense suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law." This restricted the ability of the English Crown to have a standing army or to interfere with Protestants' right to bear arms "when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law" and established that Parliament, not the Crown, could regulate ...

  3. Right to keep and bear arms in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bliss v. Commonwealth (1822, KY) [50] addressed the right to bear arms pursuant to Art. 10, Sec. 23 of the Second Constitution of Kentucky (1799): [51] "That the rights of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned." This was interpreted to include the right to carry a concealed sword in a cane.

  4. Constitutional carry - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "constitutional carry" reflects the idea that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not allow restrictions on gun rights, including the right to carry or bear arms. [7] [8] The U.S. Supreme Court had never extensively interpreted the Second Amendment until the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008. [9]

  5. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    But if "bear arms" means, as the petitioners and the dissent think, the carrying of arms only for military purposes, one simply cannot add "for the purpose of killing game". The right "to carry arms in the militia for the purpose of killing game" is worthy of the mad hatter. The dissenting justices were not persuaded by this argument. [265]

  6. Overview of gun laws by nation - Wikipedia

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    The right to keep and bear arms has been protected by the Second Amendment to the Constitution since 1791, [233] and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it protects any individual's right to keep and bear arms unconnected with service in a militia for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home and in public, in District ...

  7. Gun law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The right to keep and bear arms in the United States is protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [14] While there have been contentious debates on the nature of this right, there was a lack of clear federal court rulings defining the right until the two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases of District of Columbia v

  8. Concealed carry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    History of concealed carry laws (May-issue laws have been unenforceable since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen) The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the right to "keep and bear arms". Concealed weapons bans were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813.

  9. List of firearm court cases in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bliss v. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. 90 (1822) [21] addressed the right to bear arms pursuant to Art. 10, Sec. 23 of the Second Constitution of Kentucky (1799): [22] "That the right of the citizens to bear arms in defence of themselves and the state, shall not be questioned." This was interpreted to include the right to carry a concealed sword in a cane.