United States Ninth Circuit

The text and structure of the Second Amendment demonstrate that it does not confer an individual right to own or possess arms, thus a challenge to a California gun control statute on Second Amendment grounds is dismissed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2002
• Decided 12/05/2002
• Published 12/05/2002

Judges

• Before: REINHARDT, MAGILL, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gary W. Gorski, Fair Oaks, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy Palmieri, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, San Diego, CA, for the defendants-appellees.