The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not take up a challenge to California laws banning gun shows on public property.
Gun advocates had asked the high court to block the California ban on gun shows on state property, specifically fairgrounds.
One of the laws at issue prohibits anyone to “contract for, author or ally the sale of any firearm or ammunition on the property or in the buildings that comprise the Del Mar Fairgrounds.” Another regulation does the same at the Orange County Fair and Event Center.
The state later expanded its law to cover all state-owned land.
The challengers wanted the justices to revisit a lower court ruling in favor of the restrictions on buying and selling of guns on state property.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against them, reasoning the state’s regulation did not meaningfully burden their Second Amendment rights.
The pro-gun challengers had hoped the high court would block the lower court’s ruling so already scheduled events wouldn’t be interrupted, but Justice Elena Kagan denied that previous request.
And on Monday, the justices announced they would not take up the case, which challenged the California ban on First and Second Amendment grounds.
The gun advocates argued that the laws ran afoul of the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, which held any gun control measure had to date back to the nation’s founding and comply with history and tradition of the nation in order to be upheld.
At least four justices would have had to vote in favor of hearing the dispute for oral arguments to have been granted.
The case was B&L Productions v. Gavin Newsom.
