9th Circuit Strikes Down California’s One-Gun-a-Month Law
By Greg Pruett • June 23, 2025The 9th Circuit has struck down a California law commonly known as the “One-Gun-a-Month” law.
What’s Happening: California lawmakers originally passed the law to stop what they say were straw purchases. The law limited gun owners to purchasing only one gun every 30 days.
Gun owners said the restriction was unconstitutional and challenged the law in the courts.
Judge Danielle Forest said in the opinion,
“California’s law is facially unconstitutional because possession of multiple firearms and the ability to acquire firearms through purchase without meaningful constraints are protected by the Second Amendment.”
Digging Deeper: While gun owners are cheering this opinion out of a circuit that has notoriously sided with gun control advocates, the opinion was only a three-judge panel.
It is unclear whether the state will request a full panel, which has a higher likelihood of pushing the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Tags: 9th Circuit, California, Guns, Judge Danielle Forest, One Gun a Month
I happen to believe that Newsomefornia will find some way to delay the decision by the panel as long as possible in order to maintain their perception of “control” over the state’s residents. There is so much wrong with that state it may never, ever be right again. There’s no amount of money that could convince me to live there…as beautiful as it is, it has become ugly. So sad…