A US appeals court Saturday paved the way for a California law banning the concealed carry of firearms in “sensitive places” to go into effect January 1, despite a federal judge’s ruling that it is “repugnant to the Second Amendment.”

The law – Senate Bill 2 – had been blocked last week by an injunction from District Judge Cormac Carney, but a three-judge panel filed an order Saturday temporarily blocking that injunction, clearing the path for the law to take effect.

The court issued an administrative stay, meaning the appeals judges did not consider the merits of the case, but delayed the judge’s order to give the court more time to consider the arguments of both sides. “In granting an administrative stay, we do not intend to constrain the merits panel’s consideration of the merits of these appeals in any way,” the judges wrote.

  • Flying Squid
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    11 year ago

    I cannot read that beyond the abstract, so I have no idea what to take away from that or what the actual evidence is.

    Furthermore, the author of that piece appears to have a lot of issues with his research if his Wikipedia page is of any indication.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott

    • @SupraMario
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      11 year ago

      That’s on me, I thought the damn .gov site would hold the whole thing lol