KCRA 3’s Denzen Cortez says a single Northern California resident has pushed open carry into the center of a major legal fight, and the outcome is already rattling the state’s gun laws.
Denzen frames it as a “landmark decision,” because a federal court has now ruled California cannot ban citizens from openly carrying guns in public, at least in the way the state has been doing it.
At the heart of Denzen’s report is Mark Baird, a Siskiyou County man who says the state’s rules didn’t just regulate open carry, they boxed it into a corner until it was basically impossible…