The Volokh Conspiracy Has another fascinating Amicus brief on the history of the right to carry.
Here is the highlight:
Amicus brief on history of right to carry, in Wrenn v. DCIn the colonial period, and in the first 37 years of independence, there were no restrictions on concealed carry. Several states enacted concealed carry bans thereafter, but of course these did not limit open carry. Moreover, our first “four Presidents openly carried firearms.” The notion that they, or anyone else, thought Americans were prohibited from doing so by a 1328 English statute is implausible.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...in-wrenn-v-dc/