If you haven't seen Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the 9th Circuit video that he put out as part of his dissent in an en banc decision banning large-capacity magazines, it is worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMC7Ntd4d4c
Gun Law Court Cases
Hawaii Supreme Court Claims the Supreme Court’s Bruen and Heller Decisions were Incorrectly Decided
We reject Wilson’s constitutional challenges. Conventional interpretive modalities and Hawaiʻi’s historical tradition of firearm regulation rule out an individual right to keep and bear arms under the Hawaiʻi Constitution. In Hawaiʻi, there is no state constitutional...
Federal Judge rules Federal Law Banning Gun Possession in U.S. Post Offices are Unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Florida ruled Friday that a law banning Americans from possessing guns in postal offices is unconstitutional. The case, US v Ayala, involved a postal worker, Emmanuel Ayala who had possessed a firearm a Post Office. The...
Two 9th Circuit Judges Again Re-impose a Temporary Injunction of California Extensive Ban on Concealed Carry
There has been a lot of legal back and forth California's new concealed handgun that law bans carrying guns in 26 new places; most public places, including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks, and zoos, go into effect today (see the list below). Going into...
Third Circuit reinstates most of New Jersey’s New Restrictive Concealed Handgun Law, The Importance of Who Appointed the Judges
U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb, a George W. Bush nominated judge, originally suspended most of New Jersey's new restrictive concealed handgun law. But a three-judge federal appeals panel for the Third Circuit in a 2-to-1 split paused that preliminary injunction....
Richmond, Virginia, US District Court Judge Finds that the Federal Law Ban the Sale of Handguns to 18 to 20-year-olds Unconstitutional
On May 10, 2023, U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Payne has a decision striking down the Federal ban on handgun sales. A copy of his decision is available here. “Commonsense and logic tell us that, unless one is a maker of guns, the right to “keep”/have a gun...
Federal District Court in California strikes down California’s 2001 Unsafe Handgun Act
The Supreme Court's Bruen decision is working its way through the lower courts, but Democrats hope they can delay cases getting to the Supreme Court until the court's makeup changes. What will happen to crime and suicide rates? Without states considering...
US 9th Court of Appeals Rules in Case for Whether California could ban gun ownership for 18 to 20 year olds, CPRC provided expert testimony
The court used strict scrutiny in deciding the case. Judges and Nelson and Lee, who were Trump judicial appointees, were in the majority, while Judge Stein, a Clinton appointee, dissented. A key discussion is available here: the historical record showed that the...
CPRC at Fox News: “What the Supreme Court still doesn’t understand about guns”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: In what’s being hailed by many as a victory for gun-control advocates, the recent Supreme Court decision on “straw” purchases of guns has completely muddled the whole issue of background checks and “straw”...
Evaluating the Evidence in the Federal district court’s New York gun law decision
The CPRC presents an analysis of the federal district court's decision at National Review Online. The beginning of the analysis starts this way: New York’s new gun-control law, the so-called SAFE Act, largely survived its first federal-court challenge on this past...