Keywords
Gun laws, Open carry, Arkansas
Abstract
“There seems to us no doubt, on the basis of both text and history, that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms.”1 Although the United States Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller established a fundamental understanding that individuals have a right to own a gun for personal use, the Court recognized that, as with all fundamental rights, the individual right to keep and bear arms is “not unlimited.”2 A few limits the Court mentioned included “prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”3 Naturally, the Heller decision left us with this question: What are the constitutionally sound restrictions, and how far can the government go?4
Recommended Citation
J. H. Berry,
Arkansas Open Carry: Understanding Law Enforcement’s Legal Capability Under a Difficult Statute,
70 Ark. L. Rev.
139
(2017).
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol70/iss1/4