[Lurking Libertarian]

I can't help but wonder, if that case was done under the 9th Circuit on purpose? Given the 9th's reputation of being the most-often-overturned court in the land, the decision may have been deliberately set up to fail. Knowing that SCROTUS would reflexively overturn anything the 9th sends them...

1. The case was brought in the 9th Circuit because the challenge was to San Diego's law. San Diego is in the 9th Circuit. There have been challenges to similar laws in other circuits, which have largely upheld laws against carrying outside the home.

2. The Ninth Circuit used to be the most-overturned Circuit, but last year I believe the Sixth Circuit took that honor.

3. The Ninth Circuit gets overturned a lot because it has a lot of very liberal judges. But federal Circuit courts sit in randomly-selected panels of 3 judges, so you sometimes get a Ninth Circuit panel with 2 or 3 conservative judges. That's what happened here.

[Old Sarge]

The Sixth!? I never would have guessed.