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Court rules Second Amendment extends to gun sales, could ease zoning laws on gun stores (CA)
The Washington Times ^ | May 16, 2016 | Anrea Noble

Posted on 05/16/2016 4:33:54 PM PDT by jazusamo

Constitutional protections afforded by the Second Amendment include the right to buy and sell firearms, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a decision that reinstates a lawsuit in which three California businessmen challenged zoning laws that limit where gun stores can be located.

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.

While Monday’s ruling declares that the right to buy and sell firearms is part and parcel of the historically recognized right to keep and to bear arms, it does not determine whether the zoning law is constitutional. Rather the majority opinion, authored by Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, indicates a higher level of scrutiny should have been used to assess the legality of the law and that the county government should have been required to present evidence justifying its restrictions.

“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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; 9thappealscourt; banglist; california; gunsales
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The 9th Circuit in California no less, amazing.
1 posted on 05/16/2016 4:33:55 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

They’re up to something.


2 posted on 05/16/2016 4:35:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: jazusamo

Wow!


3 posted on 05/16/2016 4:36:38 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: jazusamo

The 9th Circuit? Really?


4 posted on 05/16/2016 4:37:07 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: marktwain

Ping!


5 posted on 05/16/2016 4:38:06 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

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


6 posted on 05/16/2016 4:38:19 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: jazusamo

Broken clock and all that.


7 posted on 05/16/2016 4:41:10 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm actually going back to school. I kinda don't believe it.)
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To: jazusamo

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?


8 posted on 05/16/2016 4:41:50 PM PDT by arl295
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Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

9 posted on 05/16/2016 4:45:39 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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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


10 posted on 05/16/2016 4:47:50 PM PDT by WENDLE (50 states)
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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.

11 posted on 05/16/2016 4:56:50 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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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.

12 posted on 05/16/2016 4:57:49 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Navy Patriot

Absolutely, excellent point!


13 posted on 05/16/2016 5:02:18 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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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.

14 posted on 05/16/2016 5:09:57 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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How is “zoning” constitutional anyways?

Basic aspects of it, e.g., not building a noisy factory in a residential neighborhood, I am in favor of. On the other hand a lot of zoning ordinances appear directed at preserving one group of people's concept of a nice neighborhood. Those need to go the same way HOAs, into the landfill.
15 posted on 05/16/2016 5:32:32 PM PDT by ronnietherocket3 (Mary is understood by the heart, not study of scripture.)
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To: jazusamo
“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.

16 posted on 05/16/2016 5:32:41 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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BenLurkin: They’re up to something.

Navy Patriot: 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.

Hm, given how the system works, this could be setting it up for the USSC to hear: they'll grant that there is such a right under the 2nd Amendment, then the city will appeal it to the USSC where the Justices will rule against the ruling stating that nothing in the Second 'immunizes' one from local laws.

Of course I may just be cynical/paranoid, but the USSC seems not to really mind the Constitution any more.

17 posted on 05/16/2016 5:34:36 PM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: libertylover

Bump!


18 posted on 05/16/2016 5:40:31 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BenLurkin

“They’re up to something.”

Makes you nervous doesn’t it?


19 posted on 05/16/2016 5:42:43 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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>>>>in the 34-page opinion for the majority<<<<

It takes 34 Pages to explain “Shall Not Be Infringed”?


20 posted on 05/16/2016 5:49:02 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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