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California ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional, court rules

Waistband of woman's jeans with handgun tucked into front.
A rally in support of open carry in Romulus, Michigan, in 2014. Photograph: Rebecca Cook/Reuters

A US appeals court on Friday ruled that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.

A panel of the San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court of appeals sided 2-1 with a gun owner in ruling that the state’s prohibition against open carry in counties with more than 200,000 people violated the US constitution’s second amendment right to keep and bear arms.

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