Mike wrote:
Here is the Texas effort:
http://www.petitiononline.com/texasoc/petition.html
And it's gotten the issue of restoration of Texas open carry rights into the new big time!
If I lived in AR this petition would be online by noon today!
Mike,
Scalia has given you what you need in Texas and elsewhere! Please see page 57, where he is discussing the most severe restrictions in history. Prohibiting openly carried weapons is listed (citing, inter alia, Nunn v. State, which GeorgiaCarry.Org quoted at length in its amicus brief - and which the Supreme Court quoted the exact same portion on pages 39-40).
Actually, several of the GCO arguments seem to have found their way into the opinion, like the 1770 Georgia law requiring people to carry guns to church (see page 28).
Back to the point. If page 57 does not give you what you need, I cannot imagine what will.
ED
Page 57. Scalia is discussing the "[f]ew laws in the history of our Nation [that] have come close to the severe restriction of the District's handgun ban," and he mentions the ban on carrying guns in Georgia.
Quote:
In Nunn v. State, the Georgia Supreme Court struck down a prohibition on carrying pistols openly (even though it upheld a prohibition on carrying concealed weapons). See 1 Ga., at 251