On Wednesday, in a victory for Second Amendment advocates, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney granted a preliminary injunction blocking a California law that would have banned the carry of firearms in a wide list of public places. The law, approved by Governor Gavin Newsom in September, was set to take effect on January 1st.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney granted a preliminary injunction blocking the law, which he wrote was “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.”
The decision is a victory for the California Rifle and Pistol Association, which sued to block the law. The measure overhauled the state’s rules for concealed carry permits in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which set several states scrambling to react with their own laws. That decision said the…
