![]() ![]() We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: THE BUZZ: A Supreme Court ruling on New York concealed carry permits will reverberate far beyond New York and far beyond concealed carry permits.Ĭalifornia’s wall of stringent gun rules could become more porous in the years ahead.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. The high court’s 6-3 vote confirmed a strong pro-Second Amendment disposition that will shape how it views future firearms cases. And the expansive reasoning of the ruling itself - the argument that any rules must be “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation” and “part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the right to keep and bear arms” - could erect high hurdles for California’s laws to clear. In the immediate term, it’s about to get easier to have a concealed firearm in California. The California Department of Justice said the prevailing requirement that someone show “good cause” likely no longer applies, though training and background check requirements could still be legal. Until now local law enforcement has largely governed the distribution of permits. That means they’ve been easier to obtain in more rural and conservative counties than in urban or populous areas like Santa Clara County, where the sheriff has denied allegations her office traded permits for political favors. That doesn’t mean Democrats are conceding defeat. Within hours of the court’s decision, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta and Democratic lawmakers coalesced behind new legislation that would go as far as the high court allows. The bill, which could get a vote early next week, would bar people from carrying concealed firearms in locations like courthouses and schools while using data like criminal records and restraining orders to assess an applicant's public safety threat. It’s a safe bet that law would also face a court challenge. In the longer term, some signature California gun rules could fall. ![]() ![]() Challenges to the state’s ban on assault weapons, its prohibition on high-capacity magazines and its requirement that people be 21 to buy semi-automatic weapons are all on appeal. It would likely take a while for those cases to wind their way to the U.S. But the court’s new test “potentially has long-term implications for California's other gun laws,” executive director of Berkeley Law's California Constitution Center David A. Carrillo said in an email.Ĭourt fights are already massing on the horizon as Second Amendment advocates triumphantly telegraphed their next steps. The Firearms Policy Coalition vowed “many more important strategic lawsuits,” including efforts to reverse "bans on self-manufacturing firearms and so-called ‘assault weapons’ and ‘large-capacity’ magazines” - all laws on the books in California. The California Rifle and Pistol Association said it planned to target a bevy of laws after the high court enabled “a hard reset for gun control law legal challenges in California.”īonta said the state will press ahead undeterred. “We’re going to continue to defend the assault weapons ban,” the AG said. “Will there be new arguments based on Bruen in our assault weapons ban defense? Perhaps.” New legal reasoning, new California gun regulation bills, and new challenges to the existing ones - all of it looks likely.īUENOS DÍAS, good Friday morning. ![]()
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