Legal Opinion
Mosby v. Devine
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 10, 2004No. 2001-161-AppealPublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WILLIAMS, Chief Justice.
Few topics have been as controversial as that of the government’s right to restrict an individual’s capacity to carry a gun. The current controversy began when the plaintiffs, Charles H. Mosby (Mosby) and Steven Golotto (Golotto) (collectively re*1035ferred to as plaintiffs), applied to the Rhode Island Department of the Attorney General for permits to carry a concealed weapon. The defendants, the chief of the Rhode Island Bureau of Criminal Identification and the Rhode Island Attorney General (collectively referred to as the department), denied the plaintiffs’…
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