North Carolina Const. art. I, § 30

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Article I, § 30 — Militia and the right to bear arms

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Awell regulatedmilitia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; and, as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they shall not be maintained, and the military shall be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. Nothing herein shall justify the practice of carrying concealedweapons, orprevent the General Assembly from enacting penal statutes against that practice.

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Awell regulatedmilitia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; and, as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they shall not be maintained, and the military shall be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. Nothing herein shall justify the practice of carrying concealedweapons, orprevent the General Assembly from enacting penal statutes against that practice.

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