Four gun dealers are suing to strike down California’s ban on handgun ads that are visible from the outside of their businesses. They claim that the law violates the First Amendment by denying them the ability to bring true commercial information about handguns to the public. (Courthouse News Service, November 13, 2014, by Mike Heuer)
Those for the plaintiffs argue that the government cannot ban advertising of lawful products merely on the grounds that the ads attract consumers or are offensive. (Volokh Conspiracy in The Washington Post, November 11, 2014, by Eugene Volokh)