{"id":118368,"date":"2026-01-03T05:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/118368\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:33:11","slug":"us-appeals-court-strikes-down-californias-open-carry-ban-in-major-second-amendment-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/118368\/","title":{"rendered":"US appeals court strikes down California’s open-carry ban in major Second Amendment ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down California\u2019s ban<\/a> on openly carrying guns across most of the state.<\/p>\n

In a 2\u20131 decision, the San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled California’s ban on open carry in counties with more than 200,000 people \u2014 covering roughly 95% of the state\u2019s population \u2014 violates the Second Amendment<\/a>, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, writing for the majority, said the ban conflicts with the Supreme Court\u2019s<\/a> 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which requires gun regulations to be consistent with the nation\u2019s “historical tradition of firearm regulation,” Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke appears in a video released by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals March 20, 2025.<\/p>\n

“The historical record<\/a> makes unmistakably plain that open carry is part of this Nation\u2019s history and tradition,” VanDyke wrote. “It was clearly protected at the time of the founding and at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”<\/p>\n

VanDyke also noted that California previously allowed residents to openly carry holstered handguns for self-defense without penalty until 2012.<\/p>\n

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“That changed only when California enacted its urban open-carry ban barely over a decade ago in 2012,” he said. “In doing so, California joined a tiny minority of states to have adopted such severe restrictions on open carry.”<\/p>\n

The decision overturned part of a 2023 ruling by a lower court that had dismissed a lawsuit<\/a> filed in 2019 by gun owner Mark Baird, while rejecting his challenge to open-carry licensing in smaller counties, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

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In October, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other gun groups said they were suing California over the state’s ban on Glock-style guns with features known as switches that allow them to be converted to fully automatic weapons.<\/p>\n

The NRA was joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, Poway Weapons & Gear, and two NRA members in challenging the state’s ban.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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