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A federal appeals court on Saturday put a temporary injunction on hold for a California law that would bar most gun owners from carrying guns in many public spaces, including banks, playgrounds and churches, that goes into effect on New Year's Day.

The Dec. 20 injunction called the law, "sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court" after gun owners, the California Rifle & Pistol Association, the Second Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of America sued over it.

U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney wrote in his Dec. 20 ruling that the law, "turns nearly every public place in California into a 'sensitive place,' effectively abolishing the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding and exceptionally qualified citizens to be armed and to defend themselves in public."

The law was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September, and prohibits gun owners from carrying firearms in 26 types of "sensitive" places and would include permit holders. It also bars owners from carrying concealed weapons in a privately owned business open to the public; like a restaurantl unless the owner posts a sign that concealed guns are allowed.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-law-barring-guns-public-spaces-effect-appeals-court-ruling