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"A Wisconsin gun-rights activist cannot sue officers in two municipalities who arrested him for disorderly conduct after he openly carried a holstered handgun into two retail stores in 2008 and 2009, the 7th Circuit ruled." ...
"At the time of the incidents, 'Legality of open carrying was debatable and had in fact been debated in two cases in the state supreme court testing the scope of Wisconsin's recently adopted constitutional provision guaranteeing an individual right to bear arms,' [Judge] Sykes pointed out."
"... the officers were entitled to qualified immunity because 'At the time of the arrests, the right to bear arms was relatively new, and Wisconsin law was unclear about the effect of the right on the scope of the disorderly conduct statute. ...'" ... |
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? — Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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