A voter-backed California law requiring background checks for people who buy bullets is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a blow to the state’s efforts to combat gun violence ...

A federal judge has ruled that California cannot enforce a law requiring people to undergo background checks to buy ammunition, declaring it unconstitutional. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Roger ...

After a California law requiring in-person background checks for every purchase of ammunition was overturned on Jan. 30 by a federal court in the District of Southern California, bringing the state’s ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down California’s first-in-the-nation law requiring background checks for ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CNS) — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that California's law requiring background checks for people purchasing ammunition is unconstitutional, upholding a San ...

(Reuters) -California cannot enforce a law requiring people to undergo background checks to buy ammunition, because it violates the constitutional right to bear arms, a federal judge has ruled. In a ...

A California law requiring people to submit to a background check every time they want to purchase ammunition is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled in a decision made public Wednesday. U.S.

NON-EMERGENCY NUMBER. A CALIFORNIA LAW THAT REQUIRES BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR AMMUNITION PURCHASES HAS BEEN FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THE RULING BY THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS UPHELD A DECISION BY A ...