Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/9/1976

Commonwealth v. Davis

Citations

343 N.E.2d 847
369 Mass. 886
1976 Mass. LEXIS 907

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holding that the right to bear arms under the Massachusetts constitution was not intended to be “directed to guaranteeing individual ownership or possession of weapons”
holding that the right to bear arms under the Massachusetts constitution was not intended to be \directed to guaranteeing individual ownership or possession of weapons\
construing a provision guaranteeing that \`[t]he people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence'\ as granting the right to bear arms to \the aggregate of citizens\
interpreting “common defense” as “point[ing] to service in a broadly based, organized militia”
construing a provision guaranteeing that “ ‘the people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence’ ” as granting the right to bear arms to “the aggregate of citizens”
“Provisions like art. 17 were not directed to guaranteeing individual ownership or possession of weapons”

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Judges: Hennessey, Reabdon, Braucheb, Kaplan, Wilkins

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