California can’t require background checks to buy ammunition, appeals court rules

Background check regime infringes on the fundamental right to keep and bear arms,' a judge wrote in the decision

A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that California's first-of-its-kind law requiring firearm owners to undergo background checks to buy ammunition is unconstitutional.

In a 2-1 vote, the ninth US circuit court of appeals in Pasadena, California, upheld a lower court judge's permanent injunction against enforcing the law.