9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
May 12, 2022
Split circuit panel ruling on gun laws pleases neither side
“California’s legal position has no logical stopping point and would ultimately erode fundamental rights enumerated in our Constitution,” wrote 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Kenneth K. Lee.
A split 9th Circuit panel effectively upheld a California ban on the sale of long guns to adults under 21 who do not have hunting licenses while saying a lower court should have enjoined a ban on the sale of semi-automatic center-fire rifles to members of the same age group who are not active-duty military service members or certain law enforcement officers.
Judge Ryan D. Nelson wrote the opinion with Judge Kenneth K. Lee concurring. Both ...
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