The effort calls into question whether or not Massachusetts’ firearm regulations for out-of-state visitors are unconstitutional. [More]
Let’s see what the Supreme Court already had to say about that:
It would give to persons of the negro race, …the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, …to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased …the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.
And everybody noticed they didn’t say a word about “permits.”
Funny, how even back then “give” was a thing…
[Via Edmund M]
SCOTUS Chief Justice Roger B. Taney writing in the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision.
Note that the decision declared that non-citizens do not enjoy the rights, privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States as defined in the U.S. Constitution. Presence alone did not confer these.