On Tuesday, U.S. District Court judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo issued an order granting summary judgment after finding California’s “provisions barring nonresidents from applying for CCW licenses violate the Constitution.”

The case is Hoffman v. Bonta, and plaintiffs include Christopher J. Hoffman and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC). It challenges California’s ban against issuing concealed carry weapons permits (CCWs) to nonresidents.

Bencivengo weighed the ban in light of Bruen (2022) and found that in order to make the ban stick, California “in effect … [argues] that nonresidents do not qualify as ‘the people.’”

She then noted that neither the Supreme Court of the United States nor the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has defined the people “so narrowly.”

Bencivengo wrote, “The provisions barring nonresidents from applying for CCW licenses violate the Constitution.”

🚨FPC WIN 🚨

In our Hoffman v. Bonta Lawsuit challenging California’s non-resident carry ban, the court has declared the State’s ban unconstitutional! pic.twitter.com/0K9DSKgc1A

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) July 1, 2025

Bencivengo ordered the parties in the lawsuit “to meet and confer and submit a proposed order for an injunction consistent with this order within 30 days.”

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