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Friend to 2A or not, Gorsuch's dissent from the denial of cert is completely off base... If you're going to dissent, at least frame the issue correctly.
We'll have to agree to disagree about his dissent as off-base.
The operative reference says "For example, in Nunn v. State (Ga. 1846) — a decision the Heller Court discussed extensively as illustrative of the proper understanding of the right — the Georgia Supreme Court struck down a ban on open carry although it upheld a ban on concealed carry. Other cases similarly suggest that, although some regulation of public carry is permissible, an effective ban on all forms of public carry is not. See, e.g., State v. Reid (Ala. 1840) ("A statute which, under the pretence of regulating, amounts to a destruction of the right, or which requires arms to be so borne as to render them wholly useless for the purpose of defence, would be clearly unconstitutional")."
So it seems clear that 'some form of carry' is to be permitted under the constitution and not to be regulated so as to render one defenseless. From a non-attorney spokesperson ;-)