Constitutional Law,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Jul. 26, 2018
Is California’s ‘open carry’ law next on the chopping block?
This week, the 9th Circuit struck down a similar law in Hawaii.
Ara R. Jabagchourian
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Peruta explicitly left open whether the Second Amendment allows for members of the public to openly carry firearms in public. (Shutterstock)
In what appeared to be an effort to side-step around the issue in Peruta v. County of San Diego, 824 F.3d 919 (2016), by an en banc panel back in 2016, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just hit head-on the issue of "open carry" under the Second Amendment in the matter of Young v. Hawaii, 2018 DJDAR 7182 (July 24, 2018). Peruta held that the Second Amendment does not allow for memb...
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