A 3-judge administrative “motions panel” of the Ninth Circuit issued a temporary Order late last week, staying the injunction in the case of May v. Bonta, which would have barred implementation of a new law known as SB 2. SB 2 makes CCWs invalid in most public places that the state has improperly designated as “sensitive.”. Because of the stay, SB 2 took effect on January 1 and will remain in effect until a different 3-judge panel, called the “merits panel,” considers the request and the CRPA’s Opposition to it. 2ALC is assisting CRPA in requesting an expedited ruling reversing the motions panel’s temporary stay of the injunction.
The law not only defines huge swaths of the state as “sensitive places” where CCWs are invalid, it also imposes new restrictions on CCW application and issuance processes. Meanwhile, the state has proposed new regulations to set up new requirements for certifying CCW instructors. If adopted as written, these will make it difficult to find a CCW training class because there will be a shortage of certified instructors. Our friends in law enforcement are pushing the DOJ to change the proposed regulations and make it easier to get certified, and the 2ALC and CRPA are opposing the DOJ’s proposed regulations as well.
“Governor Newsom loves to claim that ‘as California goes, so goes the nation.’ In this case, that might actually be true,” commented 2ALC President & Senior Legal Counsel Chuck Michel. “The methodology used to apply the Bruen decision is the central issue in May v. Bonta, just as it is in dozens of other cases in the Ninth Circuit and across the country. This is a must-win at-all-costs fight, and 2ALC is on the front lines.”
Michel’s comments point up common focus at the heart of 2 ALC’s work: providing the historical legal background and research that bolsters the arguments of pro-2A litigants in the most pressing cases across the country. Bruen’s mandate to assess whether modern-day gun laws would have been supported under the founders’ interpretation of the Second Amendment requires vast amounts of legal research.
Through our coordinated amicus brief campaigns in multiple 2A cases, and one being put together in the May v. Bonta case, 2ALC is on the front lines fighting for your freedoms. We humbly ask for your support to turn back this blatant attack on “gun culture” and help to set a precedent for similar actions nationwide.
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