California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) issued a statement Friday in which he claimed the open carry of handguns “terrorizes children” and “destabilizes daily life.”
His statement coincided with California’s decision to appeal a Ninth Circuit panel’s ruling that the state’s open carry ban runs afoul of Bruen (2022) and violates the Second Amendment. (California has a ban on open carry in any county with a population of 200,000 or more.)
The Los Angeles Times noted that the panel issued a 2-1 ruling in which Trump appointees Lawrence VanDyke and Kenneth Kiyul Lee voted in the majority. George W. Bush appointee N. Randy Smith was the dissenting judge.
California is asking the Ninth Circuit to rehear the case en banc as Bonta is making clear his disdain for the open carry of handguns.
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