Hitting concealed carry

Last week brought a surprising court ruling on guns that must have elicited fairly predictable reactions — delight, or dismay — from those on either side of the firearms debate.

As the Atlantic reported it, “The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Second Amendment does not protect a right for ordinary citizens to carry concealed firearms in public, a major decision on the constitutional boundaries of gun rights that could elicit review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“In his 52-page majority opinion in Peruta v. County of San Diego, Judge William Fletcher wrote … ‘Based on the overwhelming consensus of historical sources, we conclude that the protection of the Second Amendment — whatever the scope of that protection may be — simply does not extend to the carrying of concealed firearms in public by members of the general public.’”

California already had fairly tough concealed-carry laws, now generally upheld.

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