This will be appealed
Maybe, maybe not, the appeals court will issue an injunction to stop access until the case is heard.
Two years from now, a 3 judge panel of the appeals court will finally rule.
Either way, the losing party will seek an en banc hearing.
If the first panel makes a ‘pro’ rights ruling, then the en banc panel will vacate it and make a ruling to let anyone get the list.
yada-yada-yada
There is a more definite and sure way to keep these records safe.
All it takes is the gun owners of California to summon the willpower to retain their rights the ‘old fashioned way’.
Judge Allows Violence Researchers Access to CA Gun Owners’ Personal Info
U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns has declined to block California’s enactment of Assembly Bill 173, an amendment to California firearms laws authorizing the attorney general to disclose gun owners’ personal information to the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis and any other “bona fide research institution” meeting certain requirements, reports the Courthouse News Service.
Burns found that there was no “emergency” to warrant restraining California from sharing millions of gun owners’ personal information with gun violence researchers.
Gun owners’ personal information — including their name, address and age — is collected with every firearms sale in California and entered into the “Automated Firearms System” database.
Additional personal information is collected from applicants who apply for a “Carry License” to carry a concealed firearm including Social Security number, California driver’s license or ID number, occupation, address, weight, height and reason for applying to carry the weapon.
Michael Reynolds of Snell & Wilmer raised concerns that the personal information could slip through the cracks of research institutions and be published publicly. Reynolds added that his clients believe that allowing researchers to access their personal information was not for “law enforcement purposes” and violated their privacy rights.
“What happens if individuals working within the institutions disseminate the information in violation of the protocol? There is no enforcement mechanism in the law,” said Reynolds, who suggested the bill could have a deterrent effect preventing people from exercising their Second Amendment rights because they do not want their personal information disclosed to gun violence researchers.
However, Burns argued that the law provides a necessary research service for law enforcement who lack “the training, background or education to allow him or her to draw conclusions about gun violence.”
To that end, the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) filed a lawsuit against California challenging the law, saying that the disclosure of personal information about law-abiding gun owners to universities or any “bona fide research institute” stops privacy rights, according to the NRA-ILA.
Similarly, a group of gun owners filed a civil rights lawsuit in San Diego federal court, challenging the law on the same grounds, Bakersfield reports.