SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A U.S. judge on Monday upheld California's near-total ban on carrying guns in public even as protests in other states have seen counter-demonstrators armed with weapons.
U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller denied a review of a 2017 federal appeals court decision that upheld the law, which bans carrying concealed weapons in most urban areas and permits open-carry of weapons only if someone believes that a person is in immediate danger and law enforcement has failed to respond, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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How does all this affect the hunting sports?
ReplyDeleteThere is now no bag limit on MFers pointing a gun at you.
DeleteThat article is rather misleading. California CCWs can carry in urban areas unless they are participating in a demonstration. Can't carry in the usual places, federal building, court house, etc.
ReplyDeleteSo you can't open carry, and unless you have a permit (near impossible in Cali) you can't conceal carry, so how do you get the gun to the field or the range?
ReplyDeleteAs usual the courts are ass-backwards...right about the now is when open carry should be made legal in all 50 states. Might make these pussy-assed rioters calm the F down.
To get from your home, or some established private place, to the range or field; you carry your firearm inside a bag. The bag needn't be a bag designed for the purpose of carrying a firearm (a 'gun bag') but it behooves you to use a gun bag. Just walking from your front door to your vehicle in your driveway on the same private property may invoke 'brandishing' if to get to your vehicle means the public can see you, even though you haven't left your own property. So you disguise the firearm.
ReplyDeleteThere are strict regulations for traveling with firearms and ammo. They are enforced. You go from your residence to direct to the range or hunting field. An incidental stop for coffee or such may be allowed. Firearm and ammo carried separate. In the case of a single row of seats (no club cab), the long gun may be carried unsheathed but ammo must be separate. None in the pipe, no mag or clip attached to the firearm.
Andrew Branca lays it out far better. Even he cautions that the laws in CA change so fast its hard to keep up.
There is/was a lawsuit arguing the state has effectively banished the 2A. (can't carry open/can't carry w/out permit and they ain't giving out permits.) I haven't paid attention lately to where that suit is nowadays.
Unless they plan on initiating stop-n-frisk, good luck enforcing it.
ReplyDeleteThat is rather naive. This is CA.
DeleteI live in Soviet Monica, Democratic People's Republic of California. Even people here are carrying since the riot.
DeleteWhen I lived in SoCal 40 years ago, I alway moved my guns covertly...under wraps. Not tacos. Sadly, all my guns were lost in a boating accident shooting sea lions wantonly.
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