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Reply #135: CCW is not in our Constitution but "bear arms" is. SCOTUS recognized that "bear arms" does include [View All]

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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 05:54 PM
Response to Reply #126
135. CCW is not in our Constitution but "bear arms" is. SCOTUS recognized that "bear arms" does include
Edited on Wed Aug-12-09 05:59 PM by jody
bearing arms for self-defense.

Obviously there are only two ways to "bear arms", either openly or concealed and it's the latter that brings in a government infringement approved by SCOTUS.

SCOTUS said in Heller:
2. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited.
It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any
manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed
weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment
or state analogues.
The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast
doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by
felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms
in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or
laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of
arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those
“in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition
of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.
Pp. 54–56.

Kentucky's Supreme Court consider laws that banned open-carry and concealed-carry and concluded that together the laws prohibited a citizen's right to bear arms and was therefore unconstitutional.

IMO SCOTUS would agree with KY's Supreme Court.
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