California’s One-Gun-a-Month Law Blocked as Appeals Court Removes Stay
Published on August 16, 2024
California’s law blocking people from buying more than one gun a month is blocked, after a federal appeals court on Aug. 15 removed a stay pending appeal. “This order allows our hard-won injunction to take effect and, unless the Ninth Circuit issues a new stay, Californians may now apply to purchase multiple firearms within a 30-day period,” Brandon Combs, president of the Firearms Policy Coalition, said in a statement. The office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, which has been defending the law in court, did not respond to an early morning request for comment. The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019, bars people from applying to buy more than one handgun or certain rifles within a 30-day period....