A three-judge panel from a California federal appeals court lifted an injunction on a California law set to take effect in January that would ban carrying guns in most public places, Reuters reports, reversing a lower court GW Bush-appointed judge who called the law unconstitutional, Reuters reports.

Signed into law in September by Dreamboat California Governor Gavin Newsom, the law would bar carrying a weapon in 26 categories of “sensitive places” like hospitals, playgrounds, stadiums, zoos and places of worship regardless of any carry permit.  It would also bar carrying weapons, including concealed weapons, in privately owned public areas like stores unless the proprietor posts a sign explicitly allowing it.

The law was passed as a response to the Supreme Court overturning the New York’s gun control law that severely restricted where people could carry guns in public.  A number of states, including New York and California, revamped existing laws and regulations to meet the new legal specifications that allow limiting gun possession in specific areas, a regulation acknowledged by conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in his Heller opinion (Sec. III Para 1). 

Unlike the Supreme Court’s apparent interpretation of the Constitution in which they “seanced” what laws the Founding Fathers would craft in a modern world and determined Jefferson et al were perpetually frightened of an imminent fatal attack, something no historian of the Colonial era believes, the 9th Circuit panel considered laws must be “consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”