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[FONT=&quot]Court Rules That Right To Buy, Sell Guns Protected By 2A In SAF Case!

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[FONT=&quot]BELLEVUE, WA – A three-judge panel for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a 2-1 ruling that “the right to purchase and sell firearms is part and parcel of the historically recognized right to keep and bear arms” protected by the Second Amendment in a case brought by the Second Amendment Foundation.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]SAF was joined in the case by the California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees, the Calguns Foundation, Inc., and three businessmen, John Teixeira, Steve Nobriga and Gary Gamaza. SAF was represented by noted California civil rights attorney Don Kilmer, and the case was supported by an important amicus brief filed by Virginia attorney Alan Gura for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Gura won both the Heller and McDonald Second Amendment rulings before the U.S. Supreme Court.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]“This is an important decision,” said SAF founder and CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “It remands the case back to the lower court for further proceedings consistent with the ruling as it pertains to the Second Amendment.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The lawsuit was against an Alameda County ordinance that prohibits gun stores from being located within 500 feet of a residential zone. Writing for the majority, Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain noted that, “the Ordinance burdened conduct protected by the Second Amendment and that it therefore must be subjected to heightened scrutiny—something beyond mere rational basis review.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]“Both SAF and CCRKBA can be proud of this victory,” Gottlieb stated. “We agree with Judge O’Scannlain’s explanation that ‘the county had failed to justify the burden it has placed on the right of law-abiding citizens to purchase guns. The Second Amendment,’ as the judge wrote, ‘requires something more rigorous than the unsubstantiated assertions offered to the district court.’”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Quoting the Supreme Court ruling in SAF’s 2010 landmark McDonald case, Judge O’Scannlain reiterated, “The right of law-abiding citizens to keep and to bear arms is not a ‘second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees that we have held to be incorporated into the Due Process Clause.’”[/FONT]

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kcbrown said:

Note that both O'Scannlain and Bea are Republican appointees. So this decision shouldn't be entirely surprising. We already knew where O'Scannlain stands on the 2nd Amendment (from Peruta). Now we know where both Bea and Silverman stand (for and against, respectively).

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danb said:

Some of the Reagan and Bush appointees appeared against us in Kolbe (MD weapons ban).

Lest we forget, many republicans of that era were pro-weapons bans and signed on to the 1994 and 1986 bans. Many are also pro-states rights and view these as local issues. O'Scannlain is a different breed of R from that era.

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