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Lara v. Commissioner struck down the Pennsylvania ban on carrying by those age 18-21; the Court recently denied a motion for rehearing en banc. The dissent from the denial raises at length the question of whether a court should look primarily to the timeframe of the Second Amendment or that of the Fourteenth Amendment. Bruen dodged the issue by noting that the understanding of the right to arms, at least that relevant to the New York statute under consideration, was the same at both periods.

The importance of the choice is that around the time of the 14th (1866-68) *some*

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