Ninth Circuit Victory (Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and Gun Laws‪)‬

On April 20, we scored an historic victory at the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals-and for reasons that aren't clear to me, it received very little press attention. What attention it received was often shockingly incomplete. The case was Nordyke v. King, (1) which has been working its way up and down the federal courts since I lived in California, almost 10 years ago. The dispute was very simple: did Alameda County where Oakland is located) have authority to prohibit gun shows at the county fairgrounds? Russell and Sallie Nordyke, for many years, have put on gun shows across California, often at county fairgrounds or other publicly owned venues. As the decision points out, both sides agree that nothing illegal or violent had ever occurred at the gun shows that the Nordykes put on at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. (2)