[jazusamo]

The 9th Circuit in California no less, amazing.

[BenLurkin]

They’re up to something.

[Inyo-Mono]

Wow!

[Sasparilla]

The 9th Circuit? Really?

[jazusamo]

Ping!

[Sasparilla]

Oh, it was only a 3 Judge panel. There will be a rehearing before the whole Court. That will end the ruling.

[wastedyears]

Broken clock and all that.

[arl295]

How is “zoning” constitutional anyways?

I know I read it somewhere but I always wondered why my land went from 1 Acre zoning to restrictive 5 acre zoning (1 home per 5 acres) which devalued my land values by 80 percent (but my assessment went up) go figure right?

[jazusamo]

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[WENDLE]

Wonderful news.Today was a threefer!! First , the NYT Trump hit job blew up like an IED on THEM. Second. NO PENALTY FOR NOT PROVIDING ABORTION DRUGS for the Little Sisters!! and Finally this wonderful news that no zoning laws can stop the retail sale of our beloved guns!!! YESSSS

[Tenacious 1]

In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived Second Amendment challenges brought by businessmen who had sought to open a firearms store in Alameda County, but filed suit after they were denied a zoning permit based on laws that they claimed prevented them from opening a store anywhere in the county.

I had to read that twice and then check to make sure I knew which circuit was the 9th.

[Navy Patriot]

Constitutional protections afforded by the Second Amendment include the right to buy and sell firearms,...

I would expect that it applies to individual persons as well as businesses and business persons, which should throw a monkey wrench into bans on private sales between law abiding citizens.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

This could also be a case of something well-intentioned ending up having a bad effect.

Cities around the country are sprinkling "mini parks" and "pocket parks" throughout their communities. The publicly stated intent is to provide conveniently located places for all of their citizens to recreate.

However the unstated real purpose is to make it impossible for sex offenders to live anywhere in the city limits because the parks are located such that there is no place in the city outside the legal distance for them to stay.

If there is a similar legal distance from parks, schools, etc. only beyond which you can run a gun shop, then these cities have also made it technically illegal to get into the gun business.

The path to hell rather than being paved, is now festooned with pocket parks.

[libertylover]

“If ‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms’ is to have any force, the people must have a right to acquire the very firearms they are entitled to keep and to bear,” Judge O'Scannlain wrote in the 34-page opinion for the majority. “One cannot truly enjoy a constitutionally protected right when the State is permitted to snuff out the means by which he exercises it; one cannot keep arms when the State prevents him from purchasing them.”

Surprised this bit of logic made it out of the 9th Circuit.

Of course liberals don't want "the right of the people to keep and bears arms" to have any force.

[ealgeone]

Wow....I was amazed also at the rare moment of sanity from the 9th.

[Vendome]

Are they crazy? /S

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

[BlueNgold]

Wow

[Yo-Yo]

Not to worry, this will be appealed to the 9th en banc, just like the Peruta case, and be properly squashed.

[vpintheak]

A reasonable 9th jerk-it ruling!? I am shocked!

[Strac6]

Interesting.

For years, some states had “Blue Laws”, requiring store closure on Sunday.

Stores selling newspapers were exempt under Free Press guarantees of 1st Amendment.

Interesting precedence for a similar 2d Amendment argument here.