--- description: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a California law that requires gun owners to justify concealed handgun licences title: Concealed Handguns Not Covered by Second Amendment: Court image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Guns](/tag/guns/) ## Guns Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # There's No Constitutional Right to Carry Concealed Handguns, Court Rules by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 10, 2016 12:37 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 10, 2016 12:37 PM CUT A divided federal appeals court in California [ruled Thursday](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/9th-circuit-court-appeals-says-no-right-concealed-gun-carry-n589041 "undefined") that there is no constitutional right to carry a concealed handgun, adding to a division among the lower courts on gun rights outside the home. [By a vote of 7-4](https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/3/10-56971/009128111226.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%22E.C.F.%209th%20Cir.%2010-56971%20dckt%20000333%5F000%20filed%202016-06-09.pdf%22&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-Date=20160609T153038Z&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJDK6JKKSMS3DQS4Q/20160609/us-east-1/s3/aws4%5Frequest&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=b672fae1df6941d1b870c24958b2da82f02796a80a6df5940aca88f672855b13 "undefined"), the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a California law that requires gun owners to show a good reason before they can get a license to carry a concealed handgun. “The protection of the Second Amendment — whatever the scope of that protection may be — simply does not extend to the carrying of concealed firearms in public by members of the general public.” [Read more from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/9th-circuit-court-appeals-says-no-right-concealed-gun-carry-n589041 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4364015/federal-appeals-court-handgun-ruling/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4364015/federal-appeals-court-handgun-ruling/"},"headline":"There's No Constitutional Right to Carry Concealed Handguns, Court Rules","datePublished":"2016-06-10T12:37:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:31:03.336Z","description":"Federal appeals court ruling will please gun control lobby","url":"https://time.com/4364015/federal-appeals-court-handgun-ruling/","keywords":["Guns"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/guns/","name":"Guns"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4364015/federal-appeals-court-handgun-ruling/","name":"There's No Constitutional Right to Carry Concealed Handguns, Court Rules"}}]}] ```