Being convicted of a crime under California State law can impact your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms under both California and federal law. Section 922(g) is the law that prohibits felons, and certain other groups, from possessing firearms.A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday ruled that a blanket prohibition on convicted felons possessing firearms violates their Second Amendment rights. The Second Amendment prevents the government from infringing on one's right to keep and bear arms. In California, no license or permit shall be required to possess keep, or carry a handgun openly or concealed in one's home or place of business. This amendment requires that juries be impartial and from the state where the individual is being tried. Most U.S. citizens have a Second Amendment right to own and carry firearms, but courts have upheld some gun control. Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms. Regardless of the test used, challenged gun laws almost always survive. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.