Judge Blocks California’s ‘Abnormally Dangerous’ Gun Law

It is the first ruling in a case challenging the constitutionality of California’s Firearm Industry Responsibility Act.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (C) speaks at a press conference near the closed I-10 elevated freeway following a large pallet fire, in Los Angeles on Nov. 13, 2023. Mario Tama/Getty Images

A federal judge found California’s “abnormally dangerous guns” law unconstitutional in one part after a lawsuit from a gun industry association.

San Diego District Judge Andrew Schopler, a President Joe Biden appointee, blocked California’s attorney general from enforcing a new law that allows residents and the state and local governments to sue members of the firearms industry that manufacture or sell “abnormally dangerous” guns.