California Open-Carry Ban Challenge Features High Court Footnote

A footnote in the US Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark gun rights decision was once again a major focus of a constitutional challenge to a California gun licensing regime, this one challenging the state’s rules on the open carry of firearms.

An 11-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit honed in on the ninth footnote of the high court’s opinion in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, which says that some conditions-based gun licensing regimes can be constitutional, during oral arguments Wednesday.

The larger panel, known as an en banc court, is tasked ...