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Old March 26, 2013, 11:55 PM   #27
Frank Ettin
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Originally Posted by Old Grump
Don't know what you are looking at but I found several writeups on the 1837 law and this was the end result.
What you need to read are the actual court opinions. I provided the citation to Nunn, 1 Ga. 243 (1846), and the Georgia Supreme in Nunn upheld the Georgia law banning concealed carry. And in Nunn, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled specifically (at pg 251, emphasis in original):
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...We are of the opinion, then, that so far as the act of 1837 seeks to suppress the practice of carrying certain weapons secretly, that it is valid,...
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