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GALVAN v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S.F. 22642.

70 Cal.2d 851 (1969)

452 P.2d 930

76 Cal. Rptr. 642

JOHN GALVAN, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent; CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 23, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Edward Fleishell, Kirk Lambert Kirk, Charles L. Powell and Herbert C. Kohlwes for Petitioner.

Thomas M. O'Connor, City Attorney, Edmund A. Bacigalupi and William R. Lowery, Deputy City Attorneys, for Respondent and for Real Parties in Interest.

PETERS, J.

This is a petition for writ of mandate by John Galvan, a resident, taxpayer and firearms owner in San Francisco, in which he attacks the constitutionality of ordinance No. 175-68, the so-called San Francisco gun law. The ordinance, enacted in July 1968, provides for the registration of all firearms within San Francisco, with certain exceptions.1

Galvan contends that the San Francisco gun law is void because the law conflicts...

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