The Calguns Foundation Issues Statement Regarding Ninth Circuit Decision in Right-to-Carry Second Amendment Litigation
SAN FRANCISCO – In response to the August 15, 2016, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the consolidated cases of Peruta v. San Diego and Adam Richards, et al. v. Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto, The Calguns Foundation issued the following statement: While the Ninth Circuit’s decision to deny reviewing its wrongly-decided opinion is […]
The Calguns Foundation Issues Statement Regarding Ninth Circuit Decision in Right-to-Carry Second Amendment Litigation
SAN FRANCISCO – In response to the August 15, 2016, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the consolidated cases of Peruta v. San Diego and Adam Richards, et al. v. Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto, The Calguns Foundation issued the following statement: While the Ninth Circuit’s decision to deny reviewing its wrongly-decided opinion is […]
Judge Rules 2nd Amendment Rights are Not Second Class Rights, State of CA Fights Back
The Calguns Foundation scored a major victory earlier this year in Teixeira v. Alameda County in which the Court held that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms extends to protect gun retailers from being shut out of an area by government zoning ordinances. But now that ruling is at risk. Alameda County and […]
Fox News: Legal Analysts Say Gun Rights And More At Stake In November
Should Hillary Clinton be elected in November, legal analysts warn that her nominees to the Supreme Court would likely “no longer consider Americans to have an individual right to ‘keep and bear arms,’” according to Fox News. In her DNC address she claimed that she only wanted to pass “common-sense reforms.” But the Democratic candidate […]
It’s time to end the Handgun Roster roller coaster
There have been some really awesome handguns rolled out by manufacturers this year. From the new generation Glocks to Springfield Armory’s XD-S Series, there has been real innovation. Unfortunately, as in years past, we will see none of these guns for sale in California. Our Second Amendment rights and market choices are being held hostage […]
Washington Examiner: Concealed gun permits soar 215%, record 14.5 million, ‘explode under Obama’
Concealed carry permits have surged during the Obama Presidency, having reached new heights with the constant threat of gun control measures. Via the Washington Examiner: Americans now holding permits to pack a concealed weapon in public has soared 215 percent since 2007 to over 14.5 million, a record, according to a new report. The Crime Prevention […]
Civil Rights Groups File Appeal to Ninth Circuit in Fourteenth Amendment Equality Lawsuit Challenging Retired Government Employee Special Exemptions to California Gun Control Laws
The lawsuit, which challenges special exemptions to California’s “Gun-Free School Zone Act” for retired government employees, is being appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals LOS ANGELES (August 8, 2016) – A civil rights lawsuit challenging a special, legislatively-created exemption to the “California Gun-Free School Zone Act” for retired government employees as unconstitutional under […]
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SF Gate: Alameda County Defends Restrictions On Gun-Shop Locations
Via SF Gate: Alameda County supervisors have asked a federal appeals court to dismiss a challenge by gun groups to the county’s zoning restrictions on gun stores, arguing that the constitutional right to own firearms doesn’t include a right to sell them wherever you want. The county’s 1998 ordinance prohibits new gun shops in unincorporated […]
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department CLUELESS About Who’s Licensed to Carry
According to recent estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau, Los Angeles County has more than 10 million residents–large enough to be the seventh most populated in the country were it a state. Given its massive size and the alleged public safety interest in regulating handguns in public, one might think that the Los Angeles County […]
