, THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS (Comm. For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.The seller agreed and the parties signed an Agreement to Amend Contract (Standard Form 4-T) reflecting the change. The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers of the State government shall be forever separate and distinct from each other. Sec. 7. 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 North Carolina Court of Appeals entered the Bruen Second Amendment debate this week with its decision in State v. Radomski. The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. The Second Amendment is widely seen as quite unusual, because it has a justification clause as well as an operative clause. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of. The courts of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Vermont, and Massachusetts have interpreted their right-to-bear-arms guarantees in different ways.