A constitutional challenge to a California law requiring gun dealers to have video and audio recordings of all transactions appeared to split a three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit at oral arguments Monday.
Judge Kenneth Lee said the law’s requirement that gun dealers record audio of transactions and keep those recordings for a year is “troubling” and could violate the First Amendment rights of people talking in a gun shop.
“They talk politic and legal rights all the time,” Lee, an appointee of President Donald Trump, said at the hearing in Pasadena, Calif. “This will have a chilling effect if ...