California’s long-standing ban on openly carrying handguns just got shot down by a federal court, and the Second Amendment is standing tall.
On Friday, January 3, 2026, a three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a ruling that’s got gun rights advocates cheering and state bureaucrats scrambling. The ruling is a full-on challenge to restrictive gun policies that many law-abiding citizens have long found suffocating.
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