Published July 10, 2026 at 2:06 PM ET · Updated July 10, 2026 at 4:47 PM ET
Federal judge lets California's Glock ban stand without a Bruen ruling
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A federal judge allowed California's ban on Glock handguns to stand without issuing a ruling based on the Bruen standard. The decision leaves the state's restrictions on the firearms in place for now.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Bruen requires that once the Second Amendment's text covers the conduct, the government must justify a ban through the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. Heller held that handgun possession for self-defense is constitutionally protected. By letting the Glock ban stand without a Bruen analysis, the judge left the historical question open, so the ban survives without a merits ruling.
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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