Court Rules California Can Give Researchers Gun Ownership Information

Published on November 23, 2023

California will be allowed to continue sharing private information about gun owners with researchers after a state appeals court reversed a lower court’s ruling in an opinion Nov. 17. A new law, which went into effect Sept. 23, 2021, expanded access to such personal information, allowing the state to share the data with the California Firearm Violence Research Center at the University of California, Davis. The National Rifle Association (NRA) filed a civil rights lawsuit against the law in San Diego federal court in October 2022 on behalf of five gun owners, including three who lived in San Diego County. In the lawsuit, gun owners asserted they were already required to give up ample personal information, including their name, date of birth, address, phone number, physical description, occupation, and sometimes their Social Security number, to buy firearms under the state’s heavily regulated gun-control laws....

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