Ross Eliot is a Portland, Oregon based, socialist gun guy who used to publish the ‘zine American Gun Culture Report. I got on board with gun culture too late to partake of that work, but Eliot has recently returned with his Occupy the Second Amendment blog site. Eliot recently riffed on his receipt of funding … Continue reading
From the 1919 Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina to the publication of the Code of North Carolina in 1935, only minor and somewhat humorous (depending on one’s perspective on government) changes were made to the law banning the carrying of concealed weapons in the state. In 1923, two pieces of legislation was passed amending Sec. … Continue reading
I have previously reviewed the right to keep and bear arms under the North Carolina State Constitution, its amendment to permit the legislature to regulate concealed carry, the legislature’s subsequent 1879 ban on concealed carry, and two legal challenges to the ban in the early 1880s. From its 1879 passage to the 1919 Consolidation of … Continue reading
In my previous post, I described the legislature’s 1879 ban on carrying concealed weapons in North Carolina. This law was subsequently challenged in court by L.R. Speller (State v. Speller 105 86 N.C. 697 [1882]). Speller was having a conflict with one Jenkins who had attempted to cut him with a razor. Both Speller and … Continue reading
As noted yesterday, in its 1875 Constitutional Amendments, North Carolina gave its General Assembly the ability to enact “penal statutes against” the practice of carrying concealed weapons. Not surprisingly, having given themselves the Constitutional green light, it was not long before the North Carolina General Assembly did just that. In on July 1, 1879 it … Continue reading
As discussed in my previous post, North Carolina’s 1868 convention modified the state’s constitutional language concerning the right to bear arms by incorporating language concerning a “well-regulated militia” from the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. In 1875, however, North Carolina Democrats (Conservatives) conspired to call another convention to roll back some … Continue reading
Now that I have put a wrap on my Sociology of Guns seminar from last semester, I am ready to get back into my main area of interest with respect to guns: Gun Culture 2.0. As I get back to the roots of my intellectual engagement with American gun culture — the rise of the … Continue reading
