ninth circuit gun control

Ninth Circuit Puts its Finger on the Scale to Delay, Derail California Magazine Ban Challenge

By LKB As a federal trial attorney with appellate experience, including clerking for a United States Court of Appeals judge decades ago, I tend to discount a lot of the “conspiracy theories” non-lawyers often postulate…

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CA’s Age-Based Discrimination Banning Semi-Auto Rifle Sales to Adults Under 21 Was Unconstitutional

  America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army. Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the…


Life in the Ninth Circuit: A Judge Renders His Real Opinion in a 2A Case and an Alternative for the Full Court’s Inevitable Result

…[9th Circuit Judge Lawrence] VanDyke concluded in the majority opinion for a three-judge panel, Ventura County’s policy [closing gun stores during the pandemic] plainly did not pass muster under “strict scrutiny,” which requires that a…


Intellectual Bankruptcy: Trying to Preserve Gun Control in the US Using a 14th Century English Law

By MarkPA Much is made of the 1328 Statute of Northampton to minimize or even to deny the right to bear arms. Northampton seems to be the core of the 9th Circuit’s opinion in Young…