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Not a gun issue, but...

An example of what you have to put up with in the Ninth Circuit, based on San Francisco and taking on its mores and values (to the extent any are left).

This case concerns a proposed new airport, for an Amazon distribution facility. The issue is compliance with the NEPA, the National Environmental Protection Act. The defendant prepared an environmental assessment, then decided based on that that there would not be so substantial an impact on the environment as to require an Environmental Impact Statement, which takes years and a lot of $$$. The majority upholds the decision. A rather boring case unless you're into NEPA, or the proposed airport.

But the dissent (beginning on p. 46): "This case reeks of environmental racism, defined as "the creation, construction, and enforcement of environmental laws that have a disproportionate and disparate impact upon a particular race[.]"" Farther on, got to work in global warming: "A recent article in the Washington Post is a startling reminder of the pall pollution has cast over the planet. According to a scientist from the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, ""[i]t is likely that nearly everyone in the world now experiences changes in extreme weather as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions.""

Yes, no environmental analysis is complete unless it takes into account racism and global warming. Welcome to the Ninth Circuit.