Buying a spare barrel used to be one of the simplest transactions in California gun culture. As new rules take effect, that routine parts order now pulls you into the same regulatory orbit as a full ...

If the appeals court's reasoning against California's open-carry ban is applied to mainstream laws such as background checks and felon bans, they would have to be overturned too.

A Ninth Circuit panel said the ban ran afoul of a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that required courts to evaluate gun laws based on the country’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.” By Laurel ...