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A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel has blocked enforcement of a longstanding California law limiting residents to one firearm purchase every 30 days.
In March, a federal district court previously struck down the law as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, but the government sought and obtained a stay on the ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals pending further legal review.
But on Thursday, a three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit reversed the stay, barring law enforcement without a court’s further order.
The decision came one day after oral arguments were heard at the federal courthouse in Pasadena.
The lawsuit, titled Michelle Nguyen et al. v. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra et al., was first filed in late 2020 by a group of plaintiffs, including the Firearms Policy Coalition, according to the FPC and court documents.
The suit was renamed after Rob Bonta took over the position of California Attorney General after Becerra vacated it. The former California Attorney General then joined the Biden administration as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Service.
FPC President Brandon Combs praised the decision.
“This order allows our hard-won injunction to take effect and, unless the Ninth Circuit issues a new stay, Californians may now apply to purchase multiple firearms within a 30-day period,” he said. “FPC intends to make Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta respect Second Amendment rights whether they like it or not.”
It was unclear Friday whether the Department of Justice planned to seek a review by a larger en banc panel of the 9th Circuit.
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