Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns in stores and hotels

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3. The Louisiana law

Hawaii cited was part of the 'Black Codes' intended to limit the freedom of movement and the right to bear arms of the newly-freed slaves. As explained in the New York Tribune, March 7, 1866, the statute making it unlawful to “carry firearms on the premises or plantations of any citizen” without consent was part of “a code of laws for Africans establishing a system of serfdom, forbidding the free passage of blacks from one plantation to another, and under the form of apprenticeship and Vagrant laws reenacting slavery in fact.”