CALIFORNIA OPEN CARRY BAN STRUCK DOWN BY NINTH CIRCUIT

By Bopb Walsh

 

In a ruling issued Friday a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, by a 2-1 vote, struck down the laws that effectively ban the open carry of firearms in about 85% of the state.  The majority opinion, written by Lawrence VanDyke, asserted that the matter wasn't even close seeing as how open carry was NOT banned early in the U. S. history.  The current law bans open carry in all counties with more than 200,000 people, which is almost all of California.

It is very likely that this matter. Baird v. Bonta,  will be revisited by SCOTUS which is already supposed to look at two other 2A cases this year including a case out of Hawaii, which has some of the most restricted carry laws in the nation.