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. "…the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.The Second Amendment prevents the government from infringing on one's right to keep and bear arms. Unlike most other states, California has no provision in its state constitution that explicitly guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. 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. Amendment Two to the Constitution was ratified on December 15, 1791. It protects the right for Americans to possess weapons for the protection of themselves. The Second Amendment is widely seen as quite unusual, because it has a justification clause as well as an operative clause. Denning, Gun Shy: The. Second Amendment as an "Underenforced Constitutional Norm," 21 Harv.