The Ninth Circuit agreed to revisit a constitutional challenge to a California law that would require background checks for ammunition purchases.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will rehear the case en banc, according to a Monday filing, vacating its July ruling in which a three-judge panel struck down California’s first-in-the-nation gun-control effort, deeming it a violation of the Second Amendment.
The law mandates consumers undergo and pay for background checks before buying bullets. California voters initially passed the regulation as Proposition 63 in a 2016 state ballot initiative, and the California legislature later passed an amended ...