In upholding a 2024 ruling by a lower court, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law violates the Second Amendment. Voters passed the law in 2016 and it took effect in 2019.

The law violates the Second Amendment, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision.

‘Background check regime infringes on the fundamental right to keep and bear arms,’ a judge wrote in the decision

In upholding a 2024 ruling by a lower court, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law violates the Second Amendment. Voters passed the law in 2016 and it took…