context: Other states in which the right to bear arms is recognized as a "fundamental" right under their state constitutions analyze restrictions on that right under the Robertson "reasonable exercise of ' police power" test.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 665 N.W.2d 337, 337
citation_a.parenthetical: "Even in jurisdictions that have declared the right to keep and bear arms to be a fundamental constitutional right, a strict scrutiny analysis has ' been rejected in favor of a reasonableness test - 'the proper question is whether the statute is a reasonable exercise of police power.'" (quoting Cole, 665 N.W.2d at 337
citation_a.sentence: See Mosby v. Devine, 851 A.2d 1031, 1044-45 (R.I.2004) ("Even in jurisdictions that have declared the right to keep and bear arms to be a fundamental constitutional right, a strict scrutiny analysis has ' been rejected in favor of a reasonableness test - 'the proper question is whether the statute is a reasonable exercise of police power.'" (quoting Cole, 665 N.W.2d at 337)); see also State v. Comeau, 233 Neb. 907, 448 N.W.2d 595, 597 (1989) ("[Clourts have uniformly upheld the police power of the state through its legislature to impose reasonable regulatory control over the state constitutional right to bear arms in order to promote the safety and welfare of its citizens."); Bleiler v. Chief, Dover Police Dep't, 155 N,H. 693, 927 A,2d 1216, 1223 (2007) ("In light of the compelling state interest in protecting the public from the hazards involved with guns, we agree with numerous courts from other jurisdictions that the reasonableness test is the cor- ~ rect test for evaluating a substantive due process challenge to gun control legislation.") (citation omitted). '
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 448 N.W.2d 595, 597
citation_b.parenthetical: "[Clourts have uniformly upheld the police power of the state through its legislature to impose reasonable regulatory control over the state constitutional right to bear arms in order to promote the safety and welfare of its citizens."
citation_b.sentence: See Mosby v. Devine, 851 A.2d 1031, 1044-45 (R.I.2004) ("Even in jurisdictions that have declared the right to keep and bear arms to be a fundamental constitutional right, a strict scrutiny analysis has ' been rejected in favor of a reasonableness test - 'the proper question is whether the statute is a reasonable exercise of police power.'" (quoting Cole, 665 N.W.2d at 337)); see also State v. Comeau, 233 Neb. 907, 448 N.W.2d 595, 597 (1989) ("[Clourts have uniformly upheld the police power of the state through its legislature to impose reasonable regulatory control over the state constitutional right to bear arms in order to promote the safety and welfare of its citizens."); Bleiler v. Chief, Dover Police Dep't, 155 N,H. 693, 927 A,2d 1216, 1223 (2007) ("In light of the compelling state interest in protecting the public from the hazards involved with guns, we agree with numerous courts from other jurisdictions that the reasonableness test is the cor- ~ rect test for evaluating a substantive due process challenge to gun control legislation.") (citation omitted). '