>that the military or the militia don't bear arms concealed,<
Military and militias wanted all to see the various weapons that their men carried. They wanted to instill fear in those who would challege them.
>that is the practice of highwaymen and other ner do wells.<
Recalling the various handgun collections that I have seen during my adult life, I long ago determined that a great many concealable handguns were meant for ladies to carry in their purses. Specifically, I am thinking of the two shot derringers that were engraved with floral designs and had pretty sculpted pearl handles.
Quite a few of Iver Johnson and H&R's original revolvers were almost too small to be held in a mans hand. The grip was too small.
Harrington and Richardson, Hopkins and Allen, Iver Johnson, and Forehand and Wadsworth all made some dainty firearms.
They wouldn't have been manufactured in such great numbers if it were illegal to be carried concealed.
Please don't refer to our foremothers as n'er do wells.
And notice that the women's rights movements and womens sufferage movements started to take off around the time that women were able to be easily armed
I wasn't. But that was the theory under which concealed carry was regulated or banned by some states. Of course most of the anti-concealed carry laws were aimed at "carrying while Black", and were never intended to be enforced against the white populace, most especially those dainty foremothers... well the white ones anyway. After all, if the Black foremothers had pistols, most Americans of African descent would be a lot more African and a lot less white. And those folks who made those anti concealed carry laws wouldn't have wanted that, now would they?