Federal judge blocks California firearms carry law, calling it ‘sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment’

A California federal judge has temporarily blocked a law that would ban people from carrying firearms in most public places and championed by state Democrats.

The ruling was a win for the California Rifle and Pistol Association, which sued to block the law.  Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.

"California progressive politicians refuse to accept the Supreme Court’s mandate from the Bruen case and are trying every creative ploy they can imagine to get around it," the California association’s president, Chuck Michel, said in a statement. "The Court saw through the State’s gambit."