"The unconstitutionality of the recently made law prohibiting private free possession of firearms in the State...."

ANOTHER LEGAL NOTION.

To the Editor of The Tribune.

   Sir: The unconstitutionality of the recently made law prohibiting private free possession of firearms in the State of New York appears perfectly clear when we read the first clause of the second section of Article IV, which says:

   "The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens of the several states."

   This being the letter of the Constitution, nowise changed, or even indirectly borne upon by any amendment thereof, it stands entirely plain and not to be disputed that no law curtailing any citizen's privilege can be constitutionally made by a single state to day.

   None of the other states of this Union has any such law as this New York curiosity. It therefore follows, under the above quoted clause, that it is unconstitutional and should not have been enacted.

      ALFRED LAURENS BRENNAN.
  New York, Sept. 17, 1911.

[New-York Tribune, New-York, Tuesday, September 19, 1911. Vol. LXXI.....No. 23,683. Pg. 6]