FPC is strongly supporting our friends at the Calguns Foundation in their case to defend the right of an individual to buy a gun. Yes you read that correctly, the Ninth Circuit ruled that although one has the right to keep and bear arms, one does not have the right to buy them. You can support this case (and others like it) here.
Via Fox News:
Gun rights groups have filed a petition with the Supreme Court in the hopes that it would consider a controversial appeals court decision that limits where gun stores can open within one county in California.
Businessmen John Teixeira, Steve Nobriga and Gary Gamaza joined the Calguns Foundation, Second Amendment Foundation and California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees in the lawsuit first filed in 2012 that challenged an ordinance in Alameda County that prohibits gun stores from being located within 500 feet of areas that include a residentially zoned district.
“You simply cannot allow local governments to ignore the Second Amendment because they don't like how the Supreme Court has ruled on the amendment twice in the past ten years,” Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb told Fox News. “You shouldn't be able to zone the Second Amendment out of the Bill of Rights.”
Teixeira and company also said they determined there was not a single lot within the county that met the ordinance’s requirement of 500 feet.
“Local neighbors who live eight lanes across an interstate and the anti-rights politicians that cater to them can't redline gun stores and the right to buy arms out of existence,” Calguns Foundation Chairman Gene Hoffman said in a statement also provided to Fox News. “Since this case was filed multiple local city and county governments have used unconstitutional zoning laws to stop new gun stores from opening and close down existing gun stores. If this was a bookstore or an abortion clinic, the Ninth Circuit would not have hesitated in striking this zoning regulation unanimously.”
“Gun buyers have no right to have a gun store in a particular location, at least as long as their access is not meaningfully constrained," said Judge Marsha Berzon of the Ninth Circuit. The court rejected the argument that gun sellers' Second Amendment rights were violated, saying there is no constitutional right to sell guns.
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