A federal judge has blocked a California law forbidding the carrying of firearms in many public settings that was set to take effect on Jan. 1.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney on Wednesday issued an injunction, deeming the measure “repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court,” the Associated Press reported. The California Rifle and Pistol Association had challenged the law, which Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed earlier this year.