Published July 20, 2026 at 11:31 AM ET · Updated July 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM ET
California city moves to repeal gun law after Second Amendment groups sue
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A California city is moving to repeal a gun law after Second Amendment groups filed a lawsuit against it. The repeal follows legal pressure from gun rights organizations.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Under Bruen, once the Second Amendment's text covers a person's conduct, the government must justify the regulation by showing a historical tradition of comparable laws. Heller set the foundation that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right, though not unlimited. A city that repeals an ordinance rather than defend it is effectively conceding it cannot carry that historical burden.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Kevin P. Bruen, Superintendent of New York State Police 597 U.S. 1 (2022)
Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Thomas
New York's requirement that applicants demonstrate 'proper cause' — a special need for self-protection distinguishable from the general community — to obtain an unrestricted public-carry license violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public. The Court held the Second Amendment protects a right to carry handguns publicly for self-defense, and rejected the two-step means-end framework lower courts had applied after Heller.
District of Columbia v. Heller 554 U.S. 570 (2008)
Vote: 5-4 · Opinion: Scalia
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use it for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home. The right is not unlimited: the Court noted that longstanding prohibitions (e.g., possession by felons and the mentally ill, carrying in sensitive places, conditions on commercial sale) remain presumptively lawful. D.C.'s ban on handgun possession in the home and its requirement that lawful firearms in the home be kept nonfunctional violate the Second Amendment.
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