BELLEVUE, WA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The Second Amendment Foundation and Calguns Foundation have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a review of their challenge to California’s “Unsafe Handgun Act,” a part of that state’s penal code that violates the Second Amendment by banning handguns of the kind in common use for traditional lawful purposes.
Second Amendment Foundation and Calguns are joined by private citizens Ivan Pena, Dona Croston, Roy Vargas and Brett Thomas. They are represented by attorneys Donald Kilmer of California and Alan Gura of Virginia. The case is known as Pena v. Horan.
“Our challenge of the California Unsafe Handgun Act (UHA), if the high court accepts it for review, could be a critical wake-up call to lower federal courts that continue to employ what they call an ‘interest-balancing approach’ to deciding gun control cases because that strategy is forbidden by the 2008 Heller decision,” noted SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb.
“It is time to bring a halt to what is essentially a revolt by the lower courts against the landmark Heller opinion, and the Pena case could provide that vehicle.”
California’s Unsafe Handgun Act generally prohibits the manufacture, import or distribution of handguns that do not meet the state’s extremely restrictive design requirements under the state penal code. The result, as the plaintiffs contend in their petition for high court review, is that the state is gradually achieving a handgun ban because they cannot meet the impossible requirements, which include microstamping. That technology is not offered by any handgun manufacturer because it cannot be practically implemented, the petition notes.
“The landmark Heller ruling cannot become just a footnote in history,” Gottlieb observed, “but that appears to be the ultimate goal if such laws as California’s are allowed to stand. We are hopeful that the Supreme Court, with the benefit of fresh perspectives from two recently-seated associate justices, agrees that it is time to once again visit the Second Amendment and further restore its rightful place as a cornerstone of the Bill of Rights.”
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.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, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
Only in California where the bureaucrats determine what’s a safe gun. According to the safe gun act a handgun must not discharge if dropped. The only morons dropping their guns are criminals and of course the idiots at the CADOJ.
@ No Filter; Now at 70 I to like to make what I think are some good comments, while at times throwing out some off the wall comments just to see if anybody is really paying attention or not. I have a decent collection of firearms and shoot regularly, and still always looking for collector caliper guns. I do hold to the saying if it is junk don’t waste your money because you are only going to get a junk price when you go to sell it, buy quality , sell quality!!! Good luck and have a very good year
Now in my 60’s, l’ve come to value and appreciate the collecting of modern firearms. They are all SAFE and no idiot will change my mind on that. I hope the SC steps up and puts this nonsense to rest for good. Now, l sometimes stay away from Ammoland just to lower my blood pressure and anxiety level. Then l come back to it as the great source of information it offers. Then there’s you guys! OMG, l’ve had some great laughs so l try to bring some of my own, slightly warped and sarcastic humor to these threads. But… Read more »
Hey gang has anybody heard if the universal carry has passed or is it DOA at the senate??????? I know that it passed at the House but did the Senate act on it, or were they to busy to do anything about it one more time as usual!!!!!!!
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. These 27 words of the Second Amendment is one sentence of a complete thought, and are not individual phrases. Politicians are interpreting the Second Amendment sentence into phrases to promote their meaning of the Second Amendment. There is only one meaning of the gift our Founding Fathers gave us within the Second Amendment, the Citizens can keep guns and bear the guns necessary to protect and defend our freedoms under this Nation. It… Read more »
All of you people are fucking stupid Democrats are striving to abolish the CONSTITUTION AND TAKE FREEDOM AWAY!
“THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION” CAN GO TO HELL ! FIRST AND FOREMOST. 1. You. Can NOT be a citizen of a CORPORATION ! So. 2. There is no such thing as a “U.S. Citizen” all a fictitious Lie! So with that being said they want to take my 2nd amendment they better hand over every penny of my TREASURY DIRECT ACCOUNT!
@JAMES; Not for long you got Demo-Rat Wolf in Harrisburg and he doesn’t like Guns!!!!!!!!!!!!
Read the second admendment conservative morons! It is not an individual right, but a right to have an Army to protect us. The People and Arms are plural not singular. Hell, even the forefathers said the military needed regulation back 240 odd years ago in the amendment itself. A Well Regulated Militia! AMENDMENT II A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Libtard political hacks tell all of us bitter clining deplorable pee on’s that the Bill of Rights especially 2A is obsolete. The 2A is an 18th century anachronism that no longer applies to America today. Libtard Judges claim the 2A is not unlimited. Demacrats tell us that the guns we can own today would be useless to defend against a modern military. If that’s so than why do they desperately want to take them away from us? Simple answer, 2A protects the entire Bill of Rights that Demacrats want to take away from us. It’s that big rock in the… Read more »
Just say f@#k it and move to Ohio you can have any gun you want for reasonable prices….