Nunn v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• 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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

78 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• District of Columbia v. Heller
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-26· cited 3,086×
• New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen
  Supreme Court· 2022-06-23· cited 2,263×
• McDonald v. City of Chicago
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-28· cited 2,024×
• Peterson v. Martinez
  Tenth Circuit· 2013-02-22· cited 260×
• Kachalsky v. County of Westchester
  Second Circuit· 2012-11-27· cited 204×
• Elliott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 196×
• United States v. Masciandaro
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-03-24· cited 178×
• Drake v. Filko
  Third Circuit· 2013-07-31· cited 143×
• Lathrop v. Deal
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 111×
• Edward Peruta v. County of San Diego
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-06-09· cited 98×
• Edward Peruta v. County of San Diego
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-02-13· cited 72×
• Wrenn v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 2017-07-25· cited 71×
• Robert Bevis v. City of Naperville
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-11-03· cited 69×
• Carson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-27· cited 44×
• George Young, Jr. v. State of Hawaii
  Ninth Circuit· 2021-03-24· cited 43×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1911-10-05· cited 42×
• United States v. Steven Duarte
  Ninth Circuit· 2024-05-09· cited 33×
• City of Coll. Park v. Clayton Cnty.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 23×
• Hertz v. Bennett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-04· cited 22×
• In re Wheeler
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2013-12-30· cited 20×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• State v. Mitchell
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1833-05-30· cited 24×