Supreme Court Keeps Intact California’s Strict Limits On Concealed Weapons

Supreme Court Keeps Intact California’s Strict Limits On Concealed Weapons

That’s the sound of the concealedonline.com team letting out a collective sigh of frustration when we caught wind of this breaking news.

Once again, the Supreme Court has rejected a 2nd Amendment challenge to California’s strict limits on carrying concealed guns in public.

Supreme Court Keeps Intact California’s Strict Limits On Concealed Weapons

By a 7-2 vote, the justices turned away an appeal from gun rights advocates who contended that most law-abiding gun owners in San Diego, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area were being wrongly denied permits to carry a weapon when they leave home. The justices let stand a ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which held that the “2nd Amendment does not preserve or protect a right of a member of the general public to carry concealed firearms in public.”

Supreme Court Keeps Intact California’s Strict Limits On Concealed Weapons

In dissent, Justice joined by newest Justice said the court’s refusal to hear the appeal “reflects a distressing trend: the treatment of the 2nd Amendment as a disfavored right.” The high court’s action is sure to be a disappointment to gun-rights advocates, who were cheered by President Trump’s appointment of Gorsuch to fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Supreme Court Keeps Intact California’s Strict Limits On Concealed Weapons

California law says law-abiding owners may obtain a permit to carry concealed if they can show “good cause.” This state law is enforced by the county sheriffs.

In San Diego, Los Angeles and other urban counties, sheriffs have set a high bar for what qualifies as a “good cause,” such as a particular need for protection.

“Simply fearing for one’s personal safety is not considered good cause,” a San Diego official told a judge there. Well obviously…

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