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Concealed Carry in the United States: A Legal History

admin · 2026-03-16T23:03:46.285Z

Been shooting and carrying in Idaho for a long time, and watching this legal landscape shift has been something. Idaho's own constitution shows up in this piece, and not in the way most folks around here probably expect. The constitutions of Kentucky (1850), Louisiana (1879), Mississippi (1890), and Idaho (1978) explicitly permitted their legislatures to regulate or prohibit concealed carry while protecting the right to open carry without a permit. 1978 isn't ancient history — that's within...

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Concealed Carry in the United States: A Legal History

The legal right to carry a concealed firearm in the United States has traveled a long and contested road — from outright criminal prohibition in the early 1800s to near-universal access in the 2020s. Today, concealed carry exists on a spectrum rangin

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