{"id":1803,"date":"2014-02-15T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/02\/15\/calguns-foundation-on-peruta-decision\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:42","slug":"calguns-foundation-on-peruta-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1803","title":{"rendered":"CalGuns Foundation On Peruta Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12192,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.calgunsfoundation.org\\\/carry&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160505230828\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.calgunsfoundation.org\\\/carry\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 09:35:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 01:18:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 01:18:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe CalGuns Foundation released a statement yesterday evening on the win in the 9th Circuit yesterday. They congratulated the NRA, the California Rifle and Pistol Association, attorney Paul Clement, and California gun law firm Michel &amp; Associates for their work that led to this win for Ed Peruta and the other plaintiffs. If the NRA hadn&#8217;t stepped in when they did, this could have turned into a terrible loss for the Second Amendment in California.&nbsp; The CalGuns statement does give a little bit of the back story on this case.<\/p>\n<p>From CalGuns Foundation:<br \/>\n<b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i><b>California takes a step towards \u201cshall-issue\u201d handgun carry licensing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a major decision today, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that California\u2019s \u201cgood cause\u201d requirement for handgun carry licenses violates the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2009, during a short period when the federal Second Amendment legally applied to California through the Ninth Circuit\u2019s <\/i>Nordyke v. King<i> decision, civil rights attorneys Alan Gura and Donald Kilmer filed a federal right-to-carry lawsuit against Sacramento County\u2019s then-sheriff John McGinness and Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto on behalf of The Calguns Foundation (CGF), the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and a number of individual plaintiffs. That lawsuit, then named <\/i>Sykes v. McGinness<i>, challenged the California statutes requiring \u201cgood cause\u201d and \u201cgood moral character\u201d as facially unconstitutional. The Sykes case also challenged the two sheriffs\u2019 local policies as unconstitutional \u201cas-applied\u201d to the individual plaintiffs\u2019 facts. Sacramento County eventually settled out of the lawsuit by agreeing to implement a \u201cshall-issue\u201d policy; the case continued against Yolo County and Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto as <\/i>Richards v. Prieto.<i><\/p>\n<p>Months after the <\/i>Sykes<i> case was filed, a lawsuit that replicated the CGF\/SAF lawsuit was filed in San Diego County by Mr. Edward Peruta. Thankfully, the National Rifle Association intervened in the <\/i>Peruta<i> matter, adding new plaintiffs and significant resources to the case\u2019s legal team including noted civil rights law firm Michel &amp; Associates as well as former Solicitor General Paul Clement. The <\/i>Peruta<i> case result today is due in large part to the strength of the arguments mirrored from the <\/i>Sykes<i> lawsuit as well as the excellent legal work by Michel &amp; Associates and Mr. Clement.<\/p>\n<p>Though the <\/i>Richards<i> and <\/i>Peruta<i> cases were heard by the same three judge Ninth Circuit panel on the same day, the Court has only released its opinion on the <\/i>Peruta<i> matter so far. We look forward to the Court\u2019s <\/i>Richards<i> decision and continuing our efforts to ensure that all law-abiding Californians have an accessible way to fully exercise their right to bear arms for self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Calguns Foundation thanks the National Rifle Association, California Rifle &amp; Pistol Association, Michel &amp; Associates, and Mr. Paul Clement for their fantastic work to advance the fundamental Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and congratulates them on their very important victory for all law-abiding Californians.<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>For more on these cases and the legal status of the right to bear arms (carry) in California, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgunsfoundation.org\/carry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.calgunsfoundation.org\/carry<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CalGuns Foundation released a statement yesterday evening on the win in the 9th Circuit yesterday. They congratulated the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,1517],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-calguns-foundation","tag-peruta-v-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9739,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/9739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}