City of Ogdensburg v. Fitzgerald

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• holding that the right to bear arms under the North Carolina constitution is both a collective and an individual right
• recognizing that the legislature may properly place some limits on the carrying of weapons so long as such limits do not “deprive the citizen of his natural right of self-defence” (emphasis in original)
• holding concealed weapons ban valid so long as it does not impair the right to bear arms “altogether”
• holding that statute conflicts with the Second Amendment “so far as it cuts off the exercise of the right of the citizen altogether to bear arms, or, under the color of prescribing the mode, renders the right itself useless”
• striking down similarly broad ban on openly carrying weapons, based on erroneous view that the Federal Second Amendment applied to the States
• striking down similarly broad ban on openly carrying weapons, based on erroneous view that the Federal Second Amendment applied to the States

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