SAF Supports Motion for Summary Judgment in CA Gun Owner Privacy Case

Attorneys representing the Second Modification Basis and its companions in a lawsuit difficult the California Division of Justice’s disclosure of non-public data for third-party “analysis” have filed a memorandum of factors and authorities supporting their earlier movement for abstract judgment. The case is named Barba v. Bonta.

SAF is joined by the Firearms Coverage Coalition, California Gun Rights Basis, San Diego County Gun Homeowners PAC, Orange County Gun Homeowners PAC, Inland Empire Gun Homeowners PAC and a non-public citizen AshleyMarie Barba, for whom the case is known as. They’re represented by attorneys Bradley A. Benbrook and Stephen M. Duvernay on the Benbrook Legislation Group in Sacramento. Named as defendant within the case is Lawyer Basic Rob Bonta.

A listening to is scheduled subsequent April 18 earlier than Choose Katherine A. Bacal in San Diego County Superior Courtroom.

Californians have been required to reveal private data on handgun purchases since 1996. In 2014, the requirement was expanded to incorporate lengthy weapons. In 2021, the legislature handed Meeting Invoice 173, which now requires the California Division of Justice to share this data with the California Firearm Violence Prevention Middle at UC Davis, and permits DOJ to share the data with different analysis establishments.

“That is an egregious violation of gun homeowners’ privateness rights,” stated SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “California residents aren’t guinea pigs for social scientists at UC Davis or anyplace else. The courtroom ought to deliver a halt to this below Article 1, § 1 of the California Structure.”

“California residents who buy firearms ought to have an inexpensive expectation that the confidential data they supply to the DOJ just isn’t turned over to any third get together entity for functions unrelated to regulation enforcement,” SAF Govt Director Adam Kraut defined. “The provisions of AB 173 ignore and override this fundamental privateness proper, and can’t be allowed.”

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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt schooling, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the elemental rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of the US Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the ideas of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. By means of public schooling initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workout routines the suitable to maintain and bear arms.