Posted April 10, 2017 7:57 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

Lawsuit
Cato Institute Files Brief Supporting Lawsuit Challenging Special Gun Privileges
Firearms Policy Coalition
Firearms Policy Coalition

SAN FRANCISCO, CA —-(Ammoland.com)- Today, the Washington, D.C.-based Cato Institute filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ulises Garcia, et al. v. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the State of California’s special statutory exemptions to gun laws for retired law enforcement officers as a violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

The Cato Institute’s brief, authored by legal scholars Ilya Shapiro—a senior fellow in constitutional studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review—and Thomas Berry—a legal associate in the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies and graduate of Stanford Law School—argues that:

“In this case, an examination of the full factual circumstances proves fatal to the differing treatment contained in the amendment. Both the effects of the amendment itself and the history of lobbying from which the differing treatment arose show that no serious policy concern was on the minds of legislators. Instead, the amendment was enacted purely to advantage one politically powerful class at the advantage of a less powerful and less popular class. Such …Read the Rest

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