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Paper on free blacks obtaining gun permits pre-civil war period
Posted by David Hardy · 8 July 2011 06:31 PM
Pdf here. One interesting point made is that in Dred Scott, CJ Taney's list of "horrible hypotheticals" that would follow free blacks being recognized as citizens included that they would have the right to keep and carry arms wherever they went -- but in Taney's Maryland, free blacks did keep and carry arms wherever they went, so long as they got a permit.
By implication, carry licenses are a mark of lacking citizenship... An argument for later, but very interesting.
-Gene