A California law that would ban guns from most public spaces has been blocked by a federal judge.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney granted a preliminary injunction for plaintiffs, ruling the law violated the Second Amendment. The law in question, which was set to go into effect on Jan. 1, would have banned guns in public spaces, including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks, and zoos.
Carney denounced the law in strong terms in his ruling, writing that it was “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court,” the Associated Press reported.
The ruling was made after a lawsuit from the California Rifle and Pistol Association, which praised the outcome.
“California progressive politicians refuse to accept the Supreme Court’s mandate from the Bruen case and are trying every creative ploy they can imagine to get around it,” Chuck Michel, the group’s president, said in a statement. “The Court saw through the State’s gambit.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was quick to denounce the ruling.
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“Defying common sense, this ruling outrageously calls California’s data-backed gun safety efforts ‘repugnant.’ What is repugnant is this ruling, which greenlights the proliferation of guns in our hospitals, libraries, and children’s playgrounds — spaces, which should be safe for all,” he said in a statement.
Carney was appointed to his current position in 2003 by then-President George W. Bush.
