Ninth Circuit Weighs Split Over ‘Sensitive Place’ Gun Bans (1)

A panel of Ninth Circuit judges appeared reluctant Thursday to create a circuit split over gun restrictions in California and Hawaii that ban guns in “sensitive places” following a decision that left part of a similar ban in place in New York.

“Why should we part company with the Second Circuit?” Judge Susan P. Graber said during the arguments. “In other words, why wouldn’t we predict that our court would not choose to come to come to a different conclusion and create a circuit split?”

The judges are grappling with an unsettled area of Second Amendment law ...