A U.S. appeals court ruled that California's ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke appears in a video released by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as part of his dissent from a ruling upholding California's ban on magazines that ...

The ruling, which emphasizes the lack of historical support for such a law, is unlikely to survive en banc review.

If the appeals court’s reasoning against California's open-carry ban is applied to mainstream laws such as background checks ...

In a split decision, the appellate panel said a state law that criminalizes openly carrying a firearm in counties with a ...

California's ban on the open carry of firearms in most parts of the state is unconstitutional, a San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled Friday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke appears in a video released by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as part of ...