Today, the Second Amendment Law Center filed an amicus brief in the case of Nguyen v. Bonta. The plaintiffs in the case are challenging California’s “one gun a month” law as an unconstitutional infringement on the Second Amendment. Read the full brief here.
“The right to keep and bear arms, naturally, includes the right to actually purchase those arms in the first place,” stated 2ALC President Chuck Michel. “Our brief furthers the plaintiffs’ case that no reasonable historical analogs exist for California’s arbitrary time limit on firearm purchases.”
In its arguments supporting the law, the state cites as precedence laws that barred the purchase of firearms on the basis of race and ethnicity. Such laws would be clearly unconstitutional today, demonstrating just how far the state will go to attack the Second Amendment.
In April, the plaintiffs won a summary judgment in the case, but the court stayed that ruling to allow time for the state to appeal.
Amicus briefs serve a critical purpose in post-Bruen cases by providing extensive legal and historical context that the new standard requires. 2ALC continues to lead these efforts in critical cases like this all across the country, but we NEED YOUR HELP!
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