PENA v. LINDLEY

No. 15-15449.

898 F.3d 969 (2018)

Ivan PENA; Roy Vargas; Dona Croston; Brett Thomas; Second Amendment Foundation, Inc.; Calguns Foundation, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Stephen LINDLEY, Chief of the California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 3, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Gura (argued), Gura & Possessky PLLC, Alexandria, Virginia; Donald E. J. Kilmer Jr. , Law Offices of Donald Kilmer, San Jose, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Anthony R. Hakl (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Stepan A. Haytayan , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Douglas J. Woods , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

C.D. Michel and Clinton B. Monfort , Michel & Associates P.C., Long Beach, California, for Amici Curiae National Rifle Association of America Inc. and California Rifle and Pistol Association.

Lance A. Selfridge and Daniel C. DeCarl , Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc. and Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute Inc.

Grace R. DiLaura and David H. Fry , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Eric A. Krause , White & Case LLP, Palo Alto, California; Daniel Levin , White & Case LLP, Washington, D.C.; Jonathan Lowy , Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Andrew Esbenshade , Amy E. Pomerantz , and Michael R. Leslie , Caldwell Leslie & Proctor PC, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney.

Deepak Gupta and Jonathan E. Taylor , Gupta Wessler PLLC, Washington, D.C.; J. Adam Skaggs and Mark Anthony Frassetto , Everytown for Gun Safety, New York, New York; for Amicus Curiae Everytown for Gun Safety.

Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Bybee


OPINION

Unsurprisingly, the Second Amendment says nothing about modern technology adopted to prevent accidental firearm discharges or trace handguns via serial numbers microstamped onto fired shell casings. The question before us is whether making specific commercial...

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