Judge Strikes Down 95-Year-Old California Ban on Storefront Handgun Ads

Judge Strikes Down 95-Year-Old California Ban on Storefront Handgun Ads
Firearms are shown for sale at the AO Sword gun store in El Cajon, Calif., on Jan. 5, 2016. Mike Blake/Reuters
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A federal judge has struck down a 95-year-old California law banning firearms dealers from placing ads for handguns or images of handguns on their storefronts.

In a decision made public on Sept. 11, U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley in Sacramento, the state’s capital, said the law was “unconstitutional on its face” because it violated dealers’ commercial speech rights under the First Amendment.