Apr 21 2009
A Pleasant Surprise from the 9th Circuit Regarding Gun Rights
A good write up on the decision from Cato:
Yes, California, There Is an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms Cato @ Liberty
Well, today the Ninth Circuit the federal appellate court covering most Western states ruled that the Second Amendment restricts the power of state and local governments to interfere with individual right to have guns for personal use. That is, the Fourteenth Amendment “incorporates” the Second Amendment against the states, as the Supreme Court has found it to do for most of the Bill of Rights. I rarely get a chance to say this, but the Ninth Circuit gets it exactly right.
