California is one of the more liberal and progressive states, let alone super states. It is also home to one eighth of the population of the United States. It has a history of being forward thinking on gun control. Add the Circuit Court of Appeals in the mix.
However, in February, the infamously liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down California’s issuance of concealed carry permits based on “need’ as unconstitutional after it decided the California law practically banned people from carry a gun in public for self defense in the Peruta v. San Diego case.
The decision struck down requirements of “need” or “cause” to carry a handgun in public based on violent threats to a person as unconstitutional.
In other words, the State cannot restrict an individual from carrying a firearm because a government official doesn’t think they face enough threats to justify doing so.
It also makes clear that carrying a gun in public for self defense is in fact a protected right under the Second Amendment.
The ruling based much of its decision on the prior Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller and makes clear that the right to “bear arms” is equal in definition to “carrying arms”.
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