The federal ruling upholding AB 173 is in line with a similar ruling by a state appellate court last year. Both lawsuits were filed San Diego.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a San Diego federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit challenging California's law that permits gun owners' information to be shared with researchers studying gun violence. The lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of gun owners — including three from San Diego County — sought to block enforcement of AB 173, which amended state law to allow disclosure of gun owners' personal information to researchers.
In Wednesday's opinion, the 9th Circuit wrote that the information gun buyers must turn over for purchases and concealed-carry weapons permits 'is not intimate personal information that would implicate the right to privacy.' Further, the court wrote that there have been no allegations that the research institutions who received the data have ever violated restrictions against publicly disseminating the information.
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