> -----Original Message----- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:41:43 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RI: Concealed weapons requests clarified > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Concealed weapons requests clarified The Supreme Court rules > that if an > application is denied, a reason must be provided. > > 01:00 AM EDT on Friday, June 11, 2004 > BY GERALD M. CARBONE > Journal Staff Writer > The constitutional right in this case is the right to keep > and bear arms > spelled out in Article 1 of the Rhode Island Constitution. > Section 22. Right to bear arms. -- The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
> > > The majority of the court found that Rhode Islanders have a > right to keep any > legal firearm they desire in their homes, but they have no > absolute right to > bear firearms in public unless they are part of a recognized militia. There is nothing in the Rhode Island Constitution's RKBA provison about the militia. The court looked to the federal Constitutional provision and to those of some other states. Their reasoning, if one can call it that, dealt with the meaning of "to bear" and decided it ony applied to a military, and thus militia, context. This of course ignores the provisions in yet other state Constitutions which explicitly apply to "bearing arms in defense of themselves and the state". _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
