CA: California’s open-carry ban blown up in major Second Amendment ruling
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A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to California’s gun laws Friday, ruling the state’s open-carry ban in most populated areas violates the Second Amendment because it cannot be justified under the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.
In a 2–1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said California’s restriction on openly carrying firearms fails the Supreme Court’s modern Second Amendment test, which requires gun regulations to align with how firearms were regulated at the time of the nation’s founding. |
Second Amendment Protects Right to Open Carry, Ninth Circuit Panel Holds (2-1)
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We agree with Baird that California's ban on open carry in counties with a population greater than 200,000 fails under Bruen, and we reverse the district court's grant of summary judgment on this issue. With respect to Baird's as-applied and facial challenges to California's licensing requirements in counties with populations of less than 200,000, we conclude that Baird waived his as-applied challenge by not contesting the district court's dismissal in his opening brief and that Baird's facial challenge fails on the merits on the record of this case…. |
Court announces it will hear case on gun rights among several others in February sitting
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 2 in a case on the federal government’s efforts to prosecute a Texas man for violating a federal statute that prohibits gun possession by users of illegal drugs. That case, United States v. Hemani, is one of seven cases scheduled for the justices’ February argument session, which will begin on Feb. 23 and end on March 4.
Prosecutors brought the charge against Ali Danial Hemani after FBI agents found a Glock 9 mm pistol, 60 grams of marijuana, and 4.7 grams of cocaine at his home, which led the United States to charge him with violating the law now at the center of the case. |
NFA Tax Stamp Is DEAD! Suppressors and SBRs Have a $0 Tax Stamp
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American gun owners scored a major victory that will resonate across the firearms community for decades: the long-loathed $200 National Firearms Act (NFA) tax stamp that hung like an unconstitutional fee over suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and “any other weapons” (AOWs) is officially reduced to $0 beginning January 1, 2026. The federal tax that once made lawful ownership of suppressors and SBRs unnecessarily expensive has been abolished.
Gun owners have fought for years to repeal the NFA, and while we fell short of that goal, removing the $200 tax stamp on certain NFA items is a massive step in the right direction for the restoration of Second Amendment rights. |
AL: Self-Defense Claim ‘Credible’ After Samantha Shooting Kills 1, Wounds Another
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No arrests have been made in the aftermath of a Friday morning shooting in Tuscaloosa County that left one man dead and another injured after investigators said it may have been in self-defense.
Captain Marty Sellers, the co-commander of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit, said they were called around 9:40 in the morning on Friday to respond to Billy Bingham Road in Samantha, a rural community in north Tuscaloosa County.
Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Deputies had been called there on reports of a shooting and found one man dead, and another suffering from gunshot injuries that Sellers called non-life-threatening. |
OR: DA declines charges in Hawthorne Street shooting, rules death justified self-defense
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District Attorney Patrick Green said his office will not prosecute David Rogers, 36, in the death of Martin Uriel Jimenez Jr., 32, who was shot in the early morning hours of Nov. 2, 2025.
Medford police were called to an apartment complex around 3:30 a.m. after reports of gunshots. While officers were en route, resident Thomas Owens, 72, reported that a man had broken into his apartment and tried to kill him.
Officers found Jimenez dead in the doorway of Owens’ apartment. Police said the door had been forced open and Owens had visible injuries, including facial bleeding and bruising. He was treated at the scene by Mercy Flights. |
CA: Ninth Circuit Rules California’s Open-Carry Ban Unconstitutional
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The Ninth Circuit’s ruling hinges on the landmark 2022 Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, which established that firearm regulations must align with the nation’s historical traditions. Judge VanDyke’s opinion emphasizes that open carry was a fundamental right at the time of the Founding and the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. “There is no record of any law restricting open carry at the Founding, let alone a distinctly similar historical regulation,” Judge VanDyke noted, highlighting California’s failure to justify its ban with historical precedent. |
The nationwide movement turning guns into garden tools
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The first time Mike Martin held an AK-47 was after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. The shooting shocked a friend of a friend, a lawyer, into questioning why he owned an AK-47 in the first place. “He decided to destroy that one,” Martin recalls.
As a Mennonite youth and young adult pastor, Martin had long contemplated the idea of interpreting the “swords to ploughshares” ideal from the Book of Isaiah in a modern context.
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CA: California’s Open-Carry Gun Ban Struck Down as Unconstitutional
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The law banning residents in most parts of California from openly carrying loaded handguns for self-defense was ruled unconstitutional Friday by a federal appeals court.
A 2-1 decision of the San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with gun owner Mark Baird, finding that California’s ban on open carry in counties with a population greater than 200,000 is inconsistent with the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.
However, the three-judge panel affirmed the state’s open-carry permit requirement for residents of smaller, less populated counties. |
CA: California ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional, court rules
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.
A panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided 2-1 with a gun owner in ruling that the state’s prohibition against open carry in counties with more than 200,000 people violated U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
About 95% of the population in California, which has had some of the nation’s strictest gun-control laws, live in counties of that size.
U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, who was appointed by Republican President Donald Trump, said the Democratic-led state’s law could not stand ... |
CA: US Appeals Court Strikes Down California’s Broad Open-Carry Firearm Ban
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A federal appeals court has ruled that California’s long-standing prohibition on openly carrying firearms across most of the state violates the U.S. Constitution, delivering a significant setback to one of the nation’s strictest gun-control regimes.
In a 2–1 decision issued Friday, a panel of the San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a California gun owner who challenged the state’s ban on open carry in counties with populations exceeding 200,000. Roughly 95% of Californians live in counties covered by that restriction. |
UT: NYE Pocket Knife Attack Sends Four to Hospital in Provo Parking Lot
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Four people ended up at Utah Valley Hospital after Provo police say a man armed with a pocket knife assaulted multiple people outside a motel on New Years Eve.
According to a media release from Provo Police spokesperson Janna Lee Holland, officers were called around 8:30 p.m. to the Travelers Inn parking lot near 100 East and 300 South. Investigators believe the incident began as a verbal argument between two men. |
AL: 1 dead, 1 injured in Tuscaloosa County shooting; self-defense claim under review
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One man is dead and another was injured in a shooting Friday morning in Tuscaloosa County that investigators say may have been an act of self-defense.
The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 9:40 a.m. regarding a shooting in the 18900 block of Billy Bigham Road in the Berry area.
Deputies arrived to find two men with gunshot wounds. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other sustained injuries considered non-life-threatening.
Witnesses provided descriptions of a vehicle that allowed Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit investigators to locate a suspect, who was subsequently taken into custody. |
NC: Winston-Salem man shot, killed; investigators determine self-defense
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The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the county’s first homicide of 2026, which deputies say has been ruled a justifiable act of self-defense.
Deputies responded to reports of shots fired around 11 p.m. Thursday at a home on Hartman Plaza Court. When they arrived, they found a man who'd been shot multiple times.
Investigators said the man was rushed to the hospital but later died from his injuries. He has been identified as 54-year-old Floyd Leonard Denney of Winston-Salem. |
CA: SAF Files Amicus in Case Challenging Ammunition Background Check Regime
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit in support of Rhode v. Bonta, a case challenging California’s ammunition background check system.
When buying ammunition in California residents are required to undergo a background check, and the system wrongfully rejects over one in 10 law-abiding people attempting to purchase ammo. SAF is joined in the amicus filing by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Second Amendment Law Center. |
CA: California's ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional, appeals court rules
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that California's ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.
A panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided 2-1 with a gun owner in ruling that the state’s prohibition against open carry in counties with more than 200,000 people violated U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
About 95% of the population in California, which has had some of the nation’s strictest gun-control laws, live in counties of that size. |
CA: Ninth Circuit strikes down California urban open-carry ban
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded on Friday that California’s ban on the open carry of firearms in urban counties violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
In a split decision, the three-judge appellate panel said the state’s restriction on openly carrying firearms in counties with a population of more than 200,000 people has no historic justification that can survive scrutiny under the landmark 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. |
CA: Appeals court strikes down California’s open carry ban for most of state
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A federal appeals court ruled Friday that California’s open carry ban in most parts of the state infringes on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted 2-1 that the ban runs afoul of the Supreme Court’s expanded Second Amendment test, which requires gun control measures be consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.
U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, writing for the majority, said it was a straightforward case since open carry wasn’t banned at the nation’s founding. |
CA: Immigrant’s Second Amendment Challenge Rejected by Ninth Circuit
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A law barring undocumented immigrants from possessing guns is valid under the Second Amendment, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found Friday, aligning with other circuits.
In an unsigned decision, a panel upheld the conviction of Oscar Vazquez-Ramirez, who was charged with possessing a firearm and ammunition as an “unlawful alien.” Vazquez-Ramirez came to the country as a child, and his lengthy residency in the country entitles him to Second Amendment protection, he argued.
For purposes of the decision, the majority panel assumed without definitively finding that undocumented immigrants qualify as part of “the people” protected by ... |
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