Because I have been involved with some Hawaii based Second Amendment litigation and have moderated a Second Amendment panel for the ABA, this blog will sometimes dabble into that area.

The Ninth Circuit today, in a dramatic 120 page opinion, struck down the County of San Diego's ban on open and concealed carry of firearms.  This is heady constitutional stuff and there is just no way to craft a blog post that will do the decision or the issue justice.  

This decision, and many others, flow from the U.S Supreme Court's decisions in Heller v. District of Columbia and McDonald v. City of Chicago.  I have a lot of materials on my resource page here.

In short, the Ninth Circuit today found that the Second Amendment's right to bear arms applied outside of the home and within the county limits of San Diego.

Fellow UH Law alum, and blogger, Julie Tappendorf, has a post on this case here.