[marktwain]

The historical tradition is travelers always had the right to carry. They were treated with more respect because it was known they were more vulnerable.

[Gay State Conservative]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (”The Gay State”) is so morally,politically and philosophically corrupt that I’m shocked to see *any* state judge ruling correctly on a 2nd Amendment case. After all this *is* the state that gave us the SCOTUS case “Caetano v Massachusetts”. In that case the state’s highest court upheld Caetano’s conviction on a gun charge but somehow it got up to SCOTUS,which ruled 9-0 in Caetano’s favor calling the state supreme court’s argument upholding the conviction as “frivolous”.

[Carry_Okie]

The historical tradition is travelers always had the right to carry. They were treated with more respect because it was known they were more vulnerable.

While I agree with you about this functionally, legally it is another matter. This is where the 14^th Amendment Selective Incorporation doctrine of the SCOTUS runs aground. It will be a very interesting test between State Sovereignty under the 10^th Amendment v. the 2^nd Amendment right to bear arms. It will depend upon whether the Justices read the 10^th correctly:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The power to control who is armed is NOT "delegated to the United States;" as the right to keep and bear arms is instead acknowledged by the Constitution as a pre-existing right in the 2^nd Amendment. We shall see if they get it right.

[Languager]

Seems like there might be some good analogical/parallel arguments to be made here from Obergefell.

[Robert357]

Interesting 1686 law that was found. However, one of the issues not discussed in the Ammo Land summary was one state’s ability to interfere with interstate commerce.

If a businessman transporting valuable products or cash that could be stolen is crossing a state border in the course of his/her business the Massachusetts law might be an impediment to interstate commerce, which is reserved for the federal government to regulate.