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- From: cramer@optilink.com (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Carrying Weapons Laws - Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 02:16:10 GMT
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- In article <D8E17D82E0001A29@UALR.EDU>, lklawson@acs.harding.edu writes:
- # I'm a College student in AR right now and there is an stipulation for carry
- # that is left on the books from "the olden days." Acording to the cops I've
- # asked down here, if you are going 50 miles or more along a rout that you do not
- # normally travel, then you may wear your weapon loaded (not concealed). I'm
- # pretty sure that this is indended for residents only and its intent is clearly
- # based upon the assumption that someone going on a long trip may need to defend
- # himself against bandits. I'm not exactly sure when this peice of legislation
- # was penned but I believe that, at the time, the usuall form of locomotion was a
- # horse.
- #
- # Kirk Lawson
-
- Right you are. The statute was originally passed in 1875, when the
- Republicans lost control of the Legislature. (This was the end of
- Reconstruction in Arkansas). The exemption for travellers was
- contained in the statute, and was specifically upheld in the cases
- Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557 (1878) and Holland v. State, 33 Ark.
- 560 (1878) -- though the Arkansas Supreme Court limited the right
- to carry to "war arms" -- those that were military in nature.
- At least in the case of Holland, he was a resident of Texas,
- passing through Arkansas.
-
- If you want a detailed discussion of these cases, and how they
- were subsequently used to justify restrictive gun control laws,
- my new book as more than you ever wanted to know!
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- We could say that Congress spends money like drunken sailors. But that would
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