since9
Campaign Veteran
If it were possible for the SC to issue a writ bolstering the Second, clarification of two words would help. Those would be "keep" and "bear".
Decades ago I read quite a lot of our Founding Father's numerous letters on our Second Amendment. I whittled down your possible definitions to match what our Founding Fathers revealed via the multitude of their writings the two words meant to them when they wrote them:
KEEP - to have or hold;
BEAR - take along, carry, transport
As to your next question...
The question is this: Where in the Second Amendment does it SPECIFY the "type" of carry? Or is that supposed to be the choice of the individual concerned?
Merely by saying "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," our Founding Fathers declared an absolute moratorium against any infringement on the right to keep and bear arms. Absent a specified mode of carry, all modes of carry are covered. Thus, prohibitions against OC are an infringement the same as are prohibitions against CC. Making people wait six weeks for a permit? That's an infringement. Limiting magazine capacities, types of firearms, or places of carry? Infringements.
I know the legislative and judicial branches have "claimed" and "ruled" that there "regulations permitted" on carry, regardless of type, but aren't even those "regulations" forms of infringement?
That's the way I see it, but I didn't see it that way until after I read dozens of the many letters penned by our Founding Fathers. People need to stop guessing what they meant and simply read the period manuscripts, where it's abundantly clear what they meant.