Law Professors File Brief Opposing 9th Circuit Rehearing in Second Amendment Lawsuit

By Justin Stakes

Sacramento, CA -(AmmoLand.com)- Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF) announced today that it has joined Law Professors Randy Barnett (Georgetown University Law Center), Robert J. Cottrol (George Washington University Law School), Brannon Denning (Cumberland School of Law), Michael O’Shea (Oklahoma City University School of Law), and Glenn Harlan Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) in filing a legal brief opposing a full Ninth Circuit rehearing in the Second Amendment lawsuit Teixeira v. County of Alameda, which was decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in May.

In its panel decision, the Ninth Circuit reversed a dismissal by federal District Court Judge William Horsley Orrick III, holding that the district court should have applied heightened scrutiny in evaluating whether or not the County of Alameda, California’s ordinance banning gun stores within 500 feet of any residentially zoned district, school, day care center, any other firearms sales business, liquor stores, or bars was an unconstitutional infringement of Second Amendment rights.

“The right of law-abiding citizens to keep and to bear arms is not a second-class right,” wrote Judge …Read the Rest

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