Montana Firearms History: From Territorial Laws to Constitutional Carry

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Montana's legal arc on carry is one of the more interesting stories in American firearms law — not because it ended up permissive, but because of where it started. The territory's first legislature passed a law banning the carrying of concealed deadly weapons within the limits of any town in the territory. This was not a federal imposition — it was local frontier pragmatism. That framing matters. The guys who wrote that law weren't anti-gun — they were running gold camps full of drunk stran...

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Montana Firearms History: From Territorial Laws to Constitutional Carry

Montana sits in a peculiar place in American firearms history — a state that opened with one of the earliest concealed carry bans on the frontier and closed the 20th century with some of the most permissive gun laws in the country. That arc isn't a c

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