A recent gun case, Wrenn v. D.C., has prompted lawyers to look as far back as the year 1328 to decide whether residents of Washington, D.C., currently have the right to carry firearms in the street.
A key question in the case is if this type permitting has a “long-standing” precedent? This has led lawyers to comb through historical documents for examples of how guns were used during the colonial era and earlier, in an attempt to define the term ‘long standing’.
Lawyers for gun control groups cited an English law from 1328, before guns actually existed in the British Isles, that made it a crime “to be found going or wandering about the Streets of [London], after Curfew…with Sword or Buckler, or other Arms for doing Mischief,”.
Lawyers for gun rights groups presented to the jury the acquittal in 1686 of a man named, “Sir John Knight,” who brought to a church in Bristol “a gun, to terrify the King’s subjects,”. This serves as evidence that the 1328 law was not meant to apply broadly.
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