"any regulation in regard to the "keeping and bearing of arms" is an infringement...."

   F.J.B.--"Does the Constitution of the United States permit men to carry arms, and, it so, why are men fined for so doing?" The Constitution says that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," and the courts of this state have decided that any regulation in regard to the "keeping and bearing of arms" is an infringement which the State has no right to make. Any police magistrate interfering with a man for carrying arms violates his oath to support the Constitution and laws of his State, and any magistrate who fines a man for keeping or bearing arms commits grand larceny, for which he may be sent to State Prison. They have not a shadow of excuse, for the city ordinance which they attempt to enforce, has been three times declared unconstitutional by the highest criminal court in the City.

[The Evening World, New York, Friday, November 4, 1887. Last Edition, Pg. 3 - Under the heading "Answers to Correspondents."]