Posted on 06/05/2012 5:56:48 AM PDT by marktwain
San Carlos, CA --(Ammoland.com)- In an astonishing eleventh-hour about-face, the County of Alameda’s “sweeping concessions” in open court to allow gun shows at the Alameda County Fairgrounds was accepted by the Ninth Circuit in its opinion for Nordyke v. King, released on Friday.
As was noted in a concurring opinion by Circuit Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, the County’s representation at oral arguments that Plaintiffs could, in fact, now hold gun shows at the Fairgrounds, “change the game.”
“While it’s certainly fantastic that the Nordykes are once again able to have gun shows on Alameda County property, it’s clear to us that the County was willing to stop at nothing to dodge the Second Amendment bullet,” explained Calguns Foundation chairman Gene Hoffman.
“The Calguns Foundation is eager to see gun shows – long standing in our history and protected under the Constitution - at suitable public venues across the state of California. We stand ready to ensure that the rights of gun owners to gather and trade in self-defense arms are respected in every locale. California state law already severely regulates gun shows and these additional local requirements are solely an attempt to go beyond regulation into prohibition.”
The Calguns Foundation (www.calgunsfoundation.org) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which serves its members by providing Second Amendment-related education, strategic litigation, and the defense of innocent California gun owners from improper or malicious prosecution. The Calguns Foundation seeks to inform government and protect the rights of individuals to acquire, own, and lawfully use firearms in California.
I thought this was going to be about obama’s elusive birth records. (Nordyke twins).
Boy, those were the days.
Devastating defeat for the second amendment, spun into victory.
The court found that Alameda County could prevent guns being carried on fairgrounds. It ruled that since there were sensitive places where the government may have a special interest in limiting guns, that therefore the government can uniformly ban guns everywhere but except private property, essentially completely obliterating the right to carry a gun.
The “concession” was that the gun show could proceed so long as the guns were unloaded and temporarily rendered unusable by cables. Calguns, which sponsored the lawsuit are settling for the most meager of scraps afforded them by Alameda County, and allowing a plainly unconstitutional ordinance to stand.
I have to drive 200 miles from my home in Idaho to a decent gun show in Sandy, UT when those occur. Those are decent Crossroads events with mostly firearms related merchandise. Due to the distance and having to cross a state line, it still makes little sense to suck up a 400 mile round trip and admission. There simply aren't any hot deals that would offset the cost of travel, never mind having the extra overhead of having to pay an FFL to deliver a handgun from UT to ID.
There were some great ones at the Cow Palace back then also.
They brought in a lot of interesting people also.
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