[archy]

Then would you also say that laws forbidding convicted felons from owning a firearm or young children or the mentally impaired from owning firearms would be unconstitutional as well?

That's the way it was throught the first century of American freedom. The first law limitiong the ownership/carry of firearms by former prisoners who had paid their debt to society was instuted in California around the 1920s. It's a relatively recent concept.

[SoJoCo]

That's the way it was throught the first century of American freedom. The first law limitiong the ownership/carry of firearms by former prisoners who had paid their debt to society was instuted in California around the 1920s. It's a relatively recent concept.

Do you agree or not? If a person goes to jail for armed robbery, for example, then should they have the right to buy a firearm once they get out of jail? If a person has been judged mentally incompetent to stand trial, or if they have mental retardation or seriously diminished mental capacity, then do they have the right to own a firearm?

[wastedyears]

The Sullivan Act/Law was passed around 1911 requiring New Yorkers to obtain a permit to carry concealed firearms.