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Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta\u2019s office claimed in a letter sent to a federal appeals court that lawyers challenging the state\u2019s ban on suppressors overread a recent Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n

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The high court ruled in Wolford v. Lopez that Hawaii\u2019s law requiring private property owners who wished to allow concealed carry on the premises to clearly post signs that carrying guns was allowed was unconstitutional. In a July 1 citing the case sent to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, attorney for Gary Sanchez, the plaintiff, argued that Wolford v. Lopez defined suppressors as arms, prompting the response from Bonta\u2019s office. (RELATED: SCOTUS Showdown Over Gun Suppressors Looms After Appeals Court Creates \u2018Circuit Split\u2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWolford conducted a historical analysis to evaluate restrictions on carrying handguns in public for self-defense,\u201d Bonta\u2019s office claimed. \u201cWolford did not evaluate what accessories, if any, fall within the Second Amendment\u2019s plain text or otherwise \u2018abrogate[]\u2019 decisions conducting that analysis. This case, by contrast, concerns restrictions on firearm silencers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on June 18 in Comeaux v. United States that suppressors fall under the category of \u201carms\u201d and are protected under the Second Amendment while upholding a conviction of a person who challenged the National Firearms Act on Second Amendment grounds. The Fifth Circuit upheld Comeaux\u2019s because it determined the National Firearms Act of 1934 operates similarly to a \u201cshall issue\u201d system for administering applications for concealed carry permits.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Court did not address the central question in this case\u2014whether possession of a silencer (a firearm accessory) is covered by the Second Amendment\u2019s plain text, either as an \u2018Arm\u2019 itself or an item necessary to the functioning of a firearm,\u201d Bonta\u2019s office claimed. \u201cNothing in Wolford remotely supports an argument that silencers are either an arm or a necessary component of a firearm. Wolford thus did not \u2018effectively overrule[\u2019 the circuit precedent that controls this case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should the Ninth Circuit accept the arguments from Bonta\u2019s office, a \u201ccircuit split\u201d would occur. The Supreme Court tends to be more likely to hear cases where appellate courts for different circuits have issued different rulings, to resolve the disagreement among the lower courts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWolford leaves the State\u2019s arguments in tatters,\u201d Second Amendment Foundation Director of Legal Research and Education Konstadinos Moros told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cA suppressed firearm is obviously an \u2018arm\u2019 under the Second Amendment, and while a suppressor may not be strictly necessary for a gun to fire, neither are most common parts of a firearm. The Second Amendment is not a limited right that merely protects a right to own some sort of gun. It is an expansive right that declared it \u2018shall not be infringed.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bonta did not respond to a request for comment from the DCNF. <\/p>\n

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