10-17-1866: "Judge Bullock, of the County Court of Natchez, has decided the State law that deprives colored people of the right to bear arms to be in opposition to the State Constitution..."

The Weekly North-Carolina Standard, “In Choctaw County a Mr. S.M. Hawkins shot an old crazy colored woman whom he found in his peach orchard. . . . Judge Bullock, of the County Court of Natchez, has decided the State law that deprives colored people of the right to bear arms to be in opposition to the State Constitution, which obliges the Legislature to protect the persons and property of the freedmen.”, Oct. 17, 1866