U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, said the law could not stand under the ...

If the appeals court's reasoning against California's open-carry ban is applied to mainstream laws such as background checks and felon bans, they would have to be overturned too.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the ban, which applied to counties with populations greater than 200,000, violates residents' 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

The law banning residents in most parts of California from openly carrying loaded handguns for self-defense was ruled unconstitutional Friday by a federal appeals court. A 2-1 decision of the San ...