BELLEVUE, Wash. – Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in parallel cases challenging California’s ban on gun shows held on public property have filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that a Ninth Circuit Court mandate be recalled and a stay be issued pending an appeal to the high court later this year.
The cases involve two sets of plaintiffs. A legal action in the Southern District in San Diego involves SAF, B&L Productions/Crossroads of the West, Barry Bardack, Ronald J. Diaz, Sr., John Dupree, Christopher Irick, Robert Solis, Lawrence Michael Walsh, Captain Jon’s Lockers, L.A.X. Firing Range/LAX Ammo, California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA), and South Bay Rod and Gun Club.
In the Central California case, SAF is joined by B&L Productions/Crossroads of the West, Gerald Clark, Eric Johnson, Chad Littrell, Jan Steven Merson, CRPA, the Asian Pacific American Gun Owners Association and the Second Amendment Law Center. They are represented by attorneys C.D. Michel, Anna M. Barvir and Tiffany D. Cheuvront at Michel & Associates in Long Beach, and Donald Kilmer at Kilmer Law Offices in Caldwell, Idaho.
The emergency application was submitted to Associate Justice Elena Kagan.
The goal is to have an order by the Ninth Circuit’s three-judge panel allowing the gun show ban to be enforced to be recalled, and in its place to have a stay granted, pending a request for certiorari to the high court.
“The state already agreed to a stay,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “but the Ninth Circuit panel issued its order anyway. This case involves serious First and Second Amendment issues.”
The petition notes, “The business model of gun shows is a case study in exercising rights under the First and Second Amendments, and the operative complaint contains ample, legally sufficient allegations of California’s animus toward Applicants and their activities…The Ninth Circuit’s refusal to even address Applicants’ animus claim is inconsistent with this Court’s precedents and warrants certiorari.”
“We would very much like this case to move forward with as little drama as possible,” Gottlieb said, “but the Ninth Circuit’s actions are making that difficult.”
For more information, visit saf.org.
Second Amendment Foundation
The Second Amendment Foundation (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, SAF has grown to more than 720,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
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Edit: I did get the error earlier this morning and will document in an email.
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Don’t forget that calamity Kamala wants to ban all gun shows across America. Articles of her protesting at gun shows. Krazy Kamala and the gun banning groups say criminals and gang bangers go to gun shows. The promoters of gun shows hire off duty police officers for security and to check in guns at the front door. Do these gun banning groups really think criminals and gang bangers are going to walk up in front of police officers at a gun show,? It is families and hunters and collectors who go to gun shows. In Commiefornia, the far leftist politicians… Read more »
What were the key elements in this new attack on the First Amendment? Ditto for the Second?
F these Communists