Appeals courts agree on concealed weapons ban restrictions

“I think what this does is really highlight the difference between what people in California feel about gun owner rights, and how we think about them here in Arkansas”, Collins said.

The 7-4 ruling overturned a three-judge panel of the same court, which had determined in 2014 that a desire for personal safety was sufficient cause to be granted a permit.

Gun permit applicants in California must submit a specific reason to be granted authorization to carry a concealed weapon.

The ruling stems from a California law that requires a person applying for a concealed carry permit to show good cause, which essentially means they have to have a strong reason to need a concealed carry permit.

Last month, California lawmakers began taking up a raft of gun measures – although no gun legislation has yet to clear both the Assembly and Senate.

The case has its roots in a challenge to a San Diego sheriff’s requirement that applicants demonstrate a need to carry – such as a restraining order – before he would approve a permit. California officials sought to intervene in the case after the San Diego sheriff declined to appeal.

But a majority of the Ninth Circuit’s 29 full-time judges voted to rehear the case with an 11-judge panel, along with a similar case out of Yolo County. In addition, another federal appeals court struck down Illinois’ complete ban on carrying concealed weapons.

The attorney for the residents of California argued that the Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense is enough, and asking for more is in violation of their Constitutional Rights.

Meanwhile, on the same day of the Peruta ruling, North Carolina state representative Larry Pittman introduced a a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would guarantee all citizens the right to carry a concealed weapon even without a permit.

Concealed carry may or may not be a wise public policy choice, but it is not a constitutional right.

California laws are much tighter than, for example, Arizona’s, which allows anyone who is legally able to own a firearm to open carry without a permit.

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According to Professor Vile, author of “Pleasing the Court”, the struggle by many conservatives to make America’s patchwork gun laws more federally uniform upends a traditional political balance. But Donald Trump can do it, and in keeping his pledge to put “somebody just like Justice Scalia” on the court, he will protect our guns from leftists in elected offices and federal courtrooms across America. I don’t like to see people carrying them. “The NRA forces are certainly weaker right now”.

Thursday’s ruling comes almost a year after the 11-member panel heard oral arguments in a rehearing of the case of Richards v. Ed Prieto, County of Yolo, filed after plaintiff Adam Richards was denied a concealed weapon permit in 2009.