Posted March 28, 2016 4:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

(courtesy citrusccw.com)

By Charles Nichols, President of California Right To Carry:

Last Monday morning, the US Supreme Court published a unanimous decision reversing a judgment of the Massachusetts Supreme Court for conflicting with District of Columbia v. Heller (2008). The Massachusetts high court had given three reasons for upholding the conviction of a homeless women for possessing a stun-gun, which is illegal in that state. Each of these three reasons directly conflicted with the Heller decision. TheMassachusetts high court’s decision was reversed and remanded back to the state for a “do-over.” The Heller decision held that . . .

“[A] right to carry arms openly: “This is the right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and which is calculated to incite men to a manly and noble defence of themselves, if necessary, and of their country, without any tendency to secret advantages and unmanly assassinations.””

“Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose… For example, the majority of the 19th-century courts to …Read the Rest

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