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Carrying a Handgun In Indiana & the Police’s Right to Search

Posted in On June 4, 2017

May 9, 2017 the Indiana Supreme Court made a ruling in the case of Thomas Pinner v. State of Indiana under case number 49S02-1611-CR-610, holding that the sole fact a person has a gun is not a sufficient reason for the person to be stopped and searched. In February 2015, a taxi driver called the police after a man and a woman got out of his cab because when they exited, the man dropped a…

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Carrying a Handgun Without a License in Indianapolis

Possession of a Firearm Without a License The right to bear arms is protected by the U.S. and Indiana State constitutions.  The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”  The Indiana constitution also addresses the right to arm oneself.  Article I section 32 reads, “the people shall have…

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