Edward Peruta v. County of San Diego
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · No. 10-56971 · 781 F.3d 1106
👎Unfavorable to gun rights
upheld the counties' good-cause concealed-carry policies against Second Amendment challenge
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What the court held
Applicants denied concealed-carry licenses challenged San Diego and Yolo County policies interpreting California's "good cause" requirement narrowly. Sitting en banc, the Ninth Circuit framed the question as whether the Second Amendment protects a right of the general public to carry concealed firearms in public and answered no, relying on a historical survey concluding that concealed carry was consistently forbidden in England, the colonies, and the states, so the counties' policies did not violate the Second Amendment. Dissenting judges argued the policies should have been assessed in the context of California's separate ban on open carry, or the case remanded in light of intervening changes in state law.
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What this case is about
California "good cause" requirement for a license to carry a concealed handgun
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Key Dates
- 2015-03-26 — Decided
Sources
- CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08
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