Ninth Circuit Told It Should Review Pre-Trial Gun Ban Again

A panel opinion holding that the federal government’s ban on pre-trial defendants possessing guns is constitutional was “egregiously wrong,” and, in any event, the case was moot when it was handed down, a petition seeking review of the opinion by Ninth Circuit en banc says.

Since the US Supreme Court handed down N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n Inc. v. Bruen, upholding the right of law-abiding citizens to possess ordinary firearms for self-defense outside the home, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has taken on a number of Second Amendment questions. Whether bans on guns in ...