U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges Tuesday dismissed claims made by gun show operators and proponents that SB 264 and SB 915 violated the 1st and 2nd amendment rights of merchants and customers.
Equestrians operating at the Costa Mesa facility will have until June to conduct business as usual but will be included in plans to transition the site toward more public programming, the O.C. Fair Board decided Thursday.
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As an Irvine Democrat campaigning to represent residents of California’s 37th Senate District in 2019, Dave Min set his political sights on ending the decades-long tradition of hosting gun shows at the state-owned Orange County fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.
Fresh off the heels of deadly shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, and a similar attack on July 28 of that year at California’s Garlic Festival in Gilroy that left three dead and 17 wounded, Min said a “tragic cycle of gun violence” had to end.
“I don’t see freedom … when I arrive at the county fair and am given free tickets to take my family to a gun show,” the UC Irvine law professor said in a statement that August, announcing his ambition to stop the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the fairgrounds.