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Litigation

Sep. 29, 2011

Challenge to S.F. gun control laws can proceed, judge rules

A Northern District judge on Monday allowed a group of San Francisco gunowners to pursue their case against the city and county of San Francisco alleging that local gun restrictions violate their constitutional right to bear arms.


By Jill Redhage


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - The National Rifle Association of America Inc. and a group of individual gun owners scored a procedural win Monday in a lawsuit challenging several of San Francisco's gun control laws.


A Northern District judge denied the government's motion to dismiss, which had argued the plaintiffs failed to show that any law enforcement official had specifically threatened them with arrest ...

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