SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Kostas Moros cut straight to the heart of California’s open-carry problem.
“The plain text of the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms – openly or concealed – and open carry has been the default manner of lawful carry for most of American history. California’s ban has no foundation in our nation’s tradition, and this Court should reaffirm that open carry is protected just as the Founders and generations of Americans understood it to be. As our brief argues, neither open nor concealed carry may be banned today.”
The Second Amendment protects the right to “bear arms.” California does not get to rewrite that command into a narrow government-approved privilege. The right is not limited to concealed carry. It is not erased because a state leaves behind a different, heavily regulated pathway to legally carrying. The Second Amendment is certainly not subject to California’s public-safety panic language dressed up as constitutional law.
Click the link to read the whole article: SAF Urges Ninth Circuit To Strike California Open Carry Ban
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