In 2010, California gun rights advocates created a spectacle by prominently carrying handguns at Starbucks. Under state law, their action was legal as long as the guns were unloaded. Gun control groups demanded a change, and the state legislature then banned what's called "open carry." Now a federal appellate court has ruled that there was an unintended consequence: the ban on "open carry" means there cannot also be a limit on "concealed carry."
Has a California Gun Control Law Backfired?
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Credits
Guests:
Adam Winkler - professor of law at UCLA, and author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America" -
@adamwinkler,
Gene Hoffman - Calguns Foundation -
@hoffmang,
Lawrence Rosenthal - Chapman University -
@Chapman_Law
Host:
Warren Olney
Producers:
Katie Cooper,
Benjamin Gottlieb,
Sonya Geis