California judge greenlights county's COVID-based closures of gun stores and ranges
U.S. District Judge Consuela Marshall has been hearing cases for more than 40 years after being appointed to the bench by then-president Jimmy Cart...
U.S. District Judge Consuela Marshall has been hearing cases for more than 40 years after being appointed to the bench by then-president Jimmy Carter in 1980, and her decision in McDougall v. County of Ventura, California may very well be the worst of her long career on the bench. This week Marshall ruled that Ventura County's 48-day shutdown of gun stores and ranges as 'non-essential businesses' during the early days of the COVID pandemic didn't violate the Second Amendment rights of county residents; a decision that could have far-reaching consequences, potentially leading to even more open-ended shutdowns based on 'public health' emergencies in the future.