Wolford v. Lopez · ¶144
And it’s not just livestock. States have also historically altered the scope of implied licenses to carry firearms onto private property—the subject of today’s case. During the founding and Reconstruction eras, multiple States passed laws that operated on the interaction between armed carry and the right to exclude. These laws, like Hawaii’s, required affirmative consent for armed entry onto private property. See Act of Dec. 21, 1771, §1, Laws of the State of New-Jersey 26 (1821) (1771 N. J. Laws) (barring visitors from “carry[ing] any gun on any lands not his own, and for which the owner pays taxes, or is in his lawful possession, unless he hath license or permission in writing from the owner”); 1721 Pa. Laws, ch. 246, §3, in 3 The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania From 1682 to 1801, pp. 254–255 (J. Mitchell & H. Flanders eds. 1896) (1721 Pa. Acts) (making it unlawful for a person to…Read in context ›
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