{"id":140901,"date":"2026-01-05T12:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/05\/split-9th-circuit-strikes-down-californias-open-carry-ban-as-unconstitutional\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:38:45","slug":"split-9th-circuit-strikes-down-californias-open-carry-ban-as-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/05\/split-9th-circuit-strikes-down-californias-open-carry-ban-as-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Split 9th Circuit Strikes Down California’s Open-Carry Ban as Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is no record of any law restricting open carry at the Founding, let alone a distinctly similar historical regulation,'” wrote<\/a> Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, quoting from the high court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol\u00a0Association v. Bruen.<\/i>\"\"<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is no record of any law restricting open carry at the Founding, let alone a distinctly similar historical regulation,'” wrote<\/a> Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, quoting from the high court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol\u00a0Association v. Bruen.<\/i>\"\"<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is no record of any law restricting open carry at the Founding, let alone a distinctly similar historical regulation,’” wrote Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, quoting from the high court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol\u00a0Association v. Bruen. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThere is no record of any law restricting open carry at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/legal-news-AXmwxZ.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}