Wolford v. Lopez · ¶141

This was the backdrop against which the Second Amendment came into being (and which the Fourteenth Amendment incorporated); the right it enshrined did not protect an unyielding liberty to carry a gun onto private property via implied consent. In other words, the conduct here—carrying a gun onto private property without securing the property owner's express consent—is not part of the pre-existing right protected by the Second Amendment.

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