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In a jurisdiction where one must have a license/permit to carry (in any manner), I think we will find that the courts will allow an investigatory stop to determine if the citizen has the necessary license/permit. Once it has been determined that the license/permit is valid, no further investigation will be allowed.
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Once the right is established outside the home, how would that not be tantamount to stopping a motorist
only for the purposes of verifying that his/her driver's license is valid? The public safety risk of unlicensed carrying a gun is not distinguishable from unlicensed operating of a motor vehicle. Guns and cars are the mechanisms of a comparable number of annual deaths.
In fact, one is a right (bearing), and the other is treated as a privilege (driving). If it is impermissible, absent more, to stop someone for a license-check who is exercising the
licensed privilege of driving (which undeniably carries a significant public safety risk), how then could it be permissible, absent more, to stop someone merely to show his/her license to exercise a
right?