A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday to uphold California laws banning gun shows at county fairs and other public properties in a 3-0 decision. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the two measures do not violate the rights of firearm sellers or buyers. The ruling on Tuesday overturns a federal judge's ruling in October that blocked the laws. State Sen.
The appeals court, however, ruled that the laws only ban sales agreements on public property and do not limit discussions, advertisements or other speech about firearms. Judge Richard Clifton wrote that the bans 'do not directly or inevitably restrict any expressive activity.
The case came after a lawsuit by gun show company B&L Productions, which argued that the ban on fairgrounds sales violated the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. But the appeals court disagreed, writing that there were six licensed firearms dealers in the same ZIP code as the Orange County Fairgrounds, where the 2022 law banned gun sales.
will continue to protect the despised gun culture and fight back against an overreaching government that seeks to limit disfavored fundamental rights and discriminate against certain groups of people on state property,' Michel said in a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle. Min applauded the ruling on Tuesday, saying in a statement that the appeals court upholding the laws will make Californians safer.
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