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Buzzard (1842 Ark.), the Arkansas Supreme Court adopted a militia-based, political right, reading of the right to bear arms under state law, and upheld the 21st section of the second article of the Arkansas Constitution that declared, "that the free white men of this State shall have a right to keep and bear arms for their common defense", [33 ...
Historically, the right to keep and bear arms, whether considered an individual or a collective or a militia right, did not originate fully formed in the Bill of Rights in 1791; rather, the Second Amendment was the codification of the six-centuries-old responsibility to keep and bear arms for king and country that was inherited from the English ...
Silveira v. Lockyer, 312 F.3d 1052 (9th Cir. 2002), [1] is a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution did not guarantee individuals the right to bear arms.
(Reuters) -California cannot enforce a law requiring people to undergo background checks to buy ammunition, because it violates the constitutional right to bear arms, a federal judge has ruled.
Let’s start with the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, ratified Dec. 15, 1791. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to ...
The Constitution of California does not contain a provision explicitly guaranteeing an individual right to keep and bear arms. Article 1, Section 1, of the California Constitution implies a right to self-defense (without specifically mentioning a right to keep and bear arms) and defense of property, by stating, "All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights.
Gun rights group the Firearms Policy Coalition is suing the state of California in federal court, arguing that a state law banning out-of-state residents from carrying guns in-state violates the ...
The Second Amendment is viewed by scholars as divided into two clauses, a prefatory clause, and an operative clause. The prefatory clause includes the text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, Followed by the operative clause: the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.