Wilson v. State

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33 Ark. 557

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recognizing that the legislature could ban “easily concealed” arms under Fife v. State, 31 Ark. 455 (Ark. 1876), or concealed carry but not open carry of an eight-inch army-size revolver
concluding that “prohibit[ing] the citizen from wearing or carrying [an army size pistol, such as are commonly used in warfare,] is an unwarranted restriction upon his constitutional right to keep and bear arms”
“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and the gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.”

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