In its ongoing search for ways to place a backdoor ban on our Second Amendment rights, California is now trying to ban everyone else’s rights by ruling that non-residents of the state cannot carry a firearm inside California.
Sure, they’ll let foreigners and illegals vote in California, but a resident of Nevada, or Oregon, or Colorado, or any other U.S. state would be barred from their Constitutional rights to self-protection.
Well, now the left-coast state is the object of a lawsuit.
Per Ammoland:
On April 11, 2024, a lawsuit was filed against Rob Bonta in his capacity as the Attorney General of California. The lawsuit contends California infringes on the rights protected by the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights by prohibiting United States citizens who are non-residents of California from exercising rights protected by the Second Amendment in the state.
The suit says in part:
California, however, prevents law-abiding citizens of the United States who do not reside in California from exercising their constitutionally protected right to carry loaded, operable firearms in public. State law generally prohibits individuals from carrying firearms either openly or concealed in public, and non-residents are not eligible for a license to carry a firearm in public. Indeed, California’s unconstitutionally restrictive scheme provides no path for non-residents to carry a firearm lawfully in public at all. As a result, individuals like Plaintiffs Hoffman, Orrin,and Sensiba, who have been issued carry licenses in their respective home states (and are allowed by other states that either do not require a license, or which offer reciprocity based upon the license(s) they hold), are barred from lawfully carrying a firearm in public for self-defense when they visit California.
The lawsuit maintains that Calif. has no right to take away the Second Amendment rights of the residents of every other state.
Excepting for fully automatic machine guns, there is no federal restrictions on Americans traveling with their firearms.
It would seem pretty clear that Calif’s law is a violation of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
But we will see how the lefty courts deal with this case.
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