Court Already Said No. LA Did It Anyway. Now FPC's Suing.

This isn't a gray area. The Ninth Circuit—not a court that hands gun owners wins by accident—already ruled that capping handgun purchases at one per 30 days violates the Second Amendment. Two of California's biggest cities looked at that ruling and decided it didn't apply to them.

That's not a clerical error. That's defiance.

FPC's lawsuit names both cities directly, targets the specific ordinances still on the books, and demands enforcement stop immediately. The legal argument is airtight: acquiring a firearm is the first link in the chain the Second Amendment protects. No local government gets to ration that right away after a federal court already said so.

**Here's the only thing these limits actually accomplish:** they don't slow criminals. Criminals don't walk into licensed dealers, clear background checks, and schedule their purchases around a 30-day government calendar. The one person this law stops is the law-abiding resident in a high-crime neighborhood who needs a second firearm *now*—the new gun owner, the collector, the woman building a home-defense setup after a threat.

That's the policy. That's always been the policy.

LA Mayor Karen Bass and Inglewood's city leadership made a deliberate call: keep rationing their residents' constitutional rights rather than comply with a federal ruling. At that point, the officials aren't enforcing the law. **They're the ones breaking it.**

FPC has run this exact play before. File suit, hold the *Bruen* line, force defiant jurisdictions back before a judge, and make the legal price of ignoring the Constitution too steep to keep paying. It's why anti-gun city halls across California treat FPC like a four-letter word.

The precedent is already in place. The ruling is already on record. If FPC wins this—and the odds are steep in their favor—every city still running a purchase-limit scheme just got a target painted on its ordinance.

**Watch this case.** Because if the court forces LA to comply, the next letter FPC sends to a defiant city won't need much explaining.