Federal judge blocks California law limiting the carrying of firearms in public

A federal judge has blocked a California law forbidding the carrying of firearms in many public settings that was set to take effect on Jan. 1.

U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney on Wednesday issued an injunction, deeming the measure "repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court," the Associated Press reported. The California Rifle and Pistol Association had challenged the law, which Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed earlier this year.

The measure would have prevented the concealed carry of firearms in 26 venues regardless of whether the individual possessed a permit. It appears to resemble a legally-embattled New York law that the Empire State passed in response to Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen last year.

That case saw the top bench strike down a New York requirement that concealed carry permit applicants demonstrate a need to carry a firearm. Albany subsequently approved the Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA) to limit the venues in which permitholders could carry firearms and said law has since faced its own legal challenges.

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