8-25-1887: Oh, I get it now. Armed foreign soldiers can come into our country, (and in Chicago, Ill. at that), with the blessing of the President. But We The people can't go around in our own country with our arms....

President Grover Cleveland, “they shall permit the entrance of such foreign soldiers into the United States, with their personal baggage, uniforms, arms, and equipments, without payment of customs duties thereon”, Aug. 25, 1887