Civil Rights,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Jan. 21, 2022
Ventura County should not have closed gun shops, circuit panel says
Judge Lawrence VanDyke wrote the opinion and a concurrence that included a whithering critic of his liberal colleagues for upholding other restrictions on guns.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Thursday reversed a district court judge's dismissal of a complaint by gun owners against Ventura County orders at the outset of the pandemic that kept ammunition stores and shooting ranges closed for 48 days.
Judge Lawrence VanDyke wrote that the burden of the county public health officer's orders restricting Second Amendment rights warranted strict scrutiny and failed because they were not th...
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