A federal appeals court will reconsider its ruling that set a tough hurdle for gun show promoters who seek to overturn the ban on firearms at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
Ruling in a case that dates from 1999, a panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco declared in May that advocates of returning guns to the fairgrounds in Pleasanton would have to show that the ban enacted by the county imposes a "substantial burden" on the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
Lawyers for the promoters argued that the constitutional right to possess guns for self-defense includes the right to buy and sell them in public places.
On Monday, the court said a majority of its judges had voted to refer the case to an 11-judge panel for a new hearing, at a date not yet scheduled.
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