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.
Reality check. Bozo anti gun Calif. politicians do not want law abiding citizens to have access to sny type of firearm. They distort the truth. Imagine that. Our leaders lying to us for selfserving ourposes and to pay back there special interest who donated to their currupt campaign. Politicians don,t live on their salary, they live on monies paid to them for pushing soecial interest agenda,s. CA politics want yo close down hunting. They could care less about law abiding citizens right. It,s fine for them yo issue our young serviceman a wespon to defend our rights and freedoms. It,s… Read more »
To
Democrats
Read the USA
Constitution
2nd amendment
Just like
First amendment
Free speech
You shit head
California turds
And HYPOCRITICAL
Loser Democrats
Go trump
Guns
Capitalism
Morons
As a native San Franciscan, I have seen the city change from a place that I was proud to live in to that of a cesspool. The city government coddles the homeless, illegal aliens and felons. High Bridge Arms, the last gun shop in San Francisco, closed its doors in September 2015 because all transactions had to be videotaped and the tape was to be provided to the police. Rather than violating the privacy of its customers, the shop closed its doors. The liberals were elated. Market Street was a great place to shop and stroll. Now one cannot walk… Read more »
EASY: leave California to Burn!!
Do not move to Washington state, not welcolme!! You California idiots have ruined your state, STAY AWAY from the sane people in Eastern wa. Freedom to speak how A lot feel about your fukd up state!!
Good plan.
While I do believe Kamela Harris is a fine lawyer and is extremely on the side of the people but her opinion and her action as the Attorney General of California was jaded by her “blame the firearm” thought process. A Law abiding US Veteran in California cannot purchase a Goverment surplus hand gun that was last manufacturered in 1945 because they have/are not on the approval list.