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[SVPete]

Fed Judge Needs Color Crayon Stick Figures to Show Gavin Newsom What 2A's 'Shall Not Be Infringed' Means

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/01/03/fed-court-resorts-to-color-crayon-stick-figures-to-explain-to-newsom-that-2nd-amendment-is-the-law-n4947837

I don't know how many times California and the judges who cover for the state's unconstitutional guns and ammo laws need to get spanked for them, but Governor Gavin Newsom and his wingman at the attorney general's office just got another kick in the ass from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday. And how.

Friday's Baird v Bonta decision pointed out that not only does California's law, in effect, ban open carry throughout the state, but basically tries to pull a fast one on the public by hiding that limited and unconstitutional open-carry law in a 17-page "license" permit that is tantamount to what a judge called a "Where's Waldo quiz." Oh, it's a beaut, too.

Indeed, the very law limiting Californians from open carrying was judged to be about as legit as that Where's Waldo quiz.

Judge Lawrence Van Dyke wrote for the three-judge panel that California's open-carry ban in 95% of California wasn't an open-carry law at all. California got cover from a federal district court judge who mocked and partially overturned its decision. Then Judge Van Dyke, whom Donald Trump appointed to the bench, remanded the case back to the district court and ordered that judge to change her decision and give the win to the Second Amendment fan who brought the lawsuit.

This decision is from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Its reputation for being liberal is earned, but the two judges who wrote the opinion and a concurrence are both Trump 1.0 appointees.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Fed Judge Needs Color Crayon Stick Figures to Show Gavin Newsom What 2A's 'Shall Not Be Infringed' Means

Brought to you by the same state that issues CDL permits to illegals who can't read or speak English.

[SVPete]

Actually, one of several.

The plaintiff in the case is a resident of Siskyou County, a low-population county whose residents would be @#$%ed over if they travelled to a more populous county.