Under California\u2019s new law, people could not carry concealed guns in 26 categories of \u2018sensitive places\u2019
\nWashington DC
\nA federal appeals court on Saturday allowed a judge\u2019s ruling that barred California from enforcing a new law that bans the carrying of guns in most public places on the grounds that it was unconstitutional to take effect.
\nThe 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals disolved an order by a different 9th Circuit panel from a week earlier that suspended an injunction issued by a judge who concluded the Democratic-led state\u2019s law violated the right of citizens to keep and bear arms under the US Constitution\u2019s Second Amendment.
\nLast week\u2019s order had temporarily stayed the injunction and allowed the law to take effect on Jan.1. Gun rights groups then asked the 9th Circuit to reconsider, and on Saturday a different panel of judges dissolved the order suspending the injunction.
\n\u201cSo the politicians\u2019 ploy to get around the Second Amendment has been stopped for now,\u201d C.D. Michel, a lawyer for the gun rights groups, said in a statement.
\nCalifornia\u2019s appeal of the injunction will now be heard in April. The state\u2019s attorney general in court papers had argued \u201ctens of millions of Californians will face a heightened risk of gun violence\u201d if the law was blocked.
\n\u201cThis dangerous decision puts the lives of Californians on the line,\u201d said Daniel Villase\u00f1or, a spokesperson for Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who signed the measure into law in September.
\nThe law was enacted after a landmark ruling in June 2022 by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court that expanded gun rights nationwide.
\nThe Supreme Court in that case struck down New York\u2019s strict gun permit regime and declared for the first time that the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment protects a person\u2019s right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense.
\nThe ruling, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen, also set out a new test to assess the constitutionality of gun laws by holding they must be \u201cconsistent with the nation\u2019s historical tradition of firearm regulation.\u201d
\nCalifornia was among a group of states with similar laws as New York, and following the US Supreme Court\u2019s decision moved to revamp its firearms regulations.
\nUnder California\u2019s new law, people could not carry concealed guns in 26 categories of \u201csensitive places\u201d including hospitals, playgrounds, stadiums, zoos and places of worship, regardless whether they had permits to carry concealed weapons.
\nThe law, Senate Bill 2, also barred people from having concealed guns at privately owned commercial establishments that are open to the public, unless the business\u2019s operator posts a sign allowing license holders to carry guns on their property.
\nUS District Judge Cormac Carney, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, on Dec. 20 sided with permit holders and groups including the Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of America in finding the law ran afoul of the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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