Controversial California Gun Ban in Effect Despite Legal Battles

California’s new legislation banning firearms in most public locations took impact Monday whereas authorized challenges proceed.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, a George W. Bush appointee, blocked the legislation from taking impact in a Dec. 20 choice that discovered it to be “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.” But the ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals briefly paused Carney’s injunction on Saturday, permitting the legislation to take impact starting in 2024.

“This ruling will allow California’s common-sense gun laws to remain in place while we appeal the district court’s dangerous ruling,” Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom stated in a statement following the Saturday ruling.

The legislation, Senate Bill 2, prohibits hid carry allow holders from bringing firearms in “sensitive places,” similar to playgrounds, church buildings, hospitals, and monetary establishments.

The California Rifle and Pistol Association said in an announcement Monday that the restrictions are “justified by word games intended to end-run the Constitution and Bruen.”

“For many years, the right to bear arms, and so necessarily the right to self-defense, was relegated to second-class status,” Carney wrote in his Dec. 20 ruling. “But the United States Supreme Court made clear in its landmark decisions District of Columbia v. Heller, McDonald v. City of Chicago, and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Incorporated v. Bruen that relegation could no longer be permitted—individuals must be able to effectuate their right to self-defense by, if they so choose, responsibly bearing arms.”

Newsom called the Supreme Court’s Bruen choice a “perversion” when he signed the invoice into legislation Sept. 26.

Originally printed by the Daily Caller News Foundation

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