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Wyoming Improvement of Constitutional Carry Likely to Pass
AmmoLand ^ | 28 March, 2021 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 04/02/2021 6:10:38 AM PDT by marktwain

Wyoming is on the cusp of a needed improvement of their Constitutional Carry law. In 2011, Wyoming was only the third state to restore Constitutional Carry.

Constitutional Carry is a close approximation of the state of law that existed when the Second Amendment was ratified in the United States, in 1791. At that time, there were no permits required to carry weapons in most public spaces, either openly or concealed.

State governments and the Federal government did not impose legal burdens on the carry of weapons, openly or concealed, for two generations after the ratification of the Second Amendment.

Gradual infringements on the carry of arms were passed in some states in fear of slave revolts, newly freed slaves after the Civil War, and during the Progressive era.

Only one state refused to infringe on Second Amendment rights. It always had one of the lowest crime rates in the United States. It was Vermont.

As a growing movement called for constitutional limits to the advancing tyranny of the administrative state, Alaska restored Constitutional Carry in 2003.

Arizona, I am proud to say, restored Constitutional Carry in 2010.

Wyoming was the third state to restore Constitutional Carry, in 2011. The bill was not perfect. It had a flaw. It only applied to Wyoming residents. A person had to have been a resident for six months before it applied.

This compromise was required to get the bill passed. It was 95% of Constitutional Carry. The residency requirement would probably be ruled unconstitutional on equal protection grounds if challenged in court. This correspondent has not found any evidence it has ever been challenged.

It appears the flaw is about to be rectified.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitutionalcarry; residency; wy; wyoming
When this happens, North Dakota will be the only state with a residency requirement for Constitutional Carry.
1 posted on 04/02/2021 6:10:38 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

So this becomes law of the land, right? just like they did with gay marriage?


2 posted on 04/02/2021 7:09:50 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: marktwain; Conservative4Life

The more states that do this, the better.


3 posted on 04/03/2021 6:02:18 PM PDT by Trillian
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