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CA: "Open carry" gun ban approved in Legislature
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"The state Senate Tuesday night approved a ban on the public display of unloaded handguns in a defeat for the growing 'open carry movement' and its powerful gun-rights allies."
"The 21-16 vote was considered the big hurdle before getting the bill to the governor's desk. Approval of amendments was expected later in the Assembly, which had already passed the bill."
"The high-stakes drama pitting police chiefs and gun-control supporters against gun owners reached its crescendo on the final night of the legislative session. ..."
"Before a key vote earlier this year, protesters rallied outside the Capitol displaying their unloaded weapons. Similar demonstrations have unfolded in San Diego County ... and across the nation." ... |
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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. — Noah Webster in "An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution," 1787, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at p. 56 (New York, 1888). |
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