Fahr

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JAMES FAHR, et al., Case No. 21-cv-1676-BAS-BGS

Plaintiffs,

ORDER:

v. (1) GRANTING JOINT MOTION CITY OF SAN DIEGO, et al.,

TO STAY PROCEEDINGS

Defendants. (ECF No. 31); AND

16 (2) TERMINATING AS MOOT

DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO

DISMISS (ECF No. 22)

At issue in the above-captioned lawsuit is the legality of Section 53.18 of Chapter of the San Diego Municipal Code (“Section 53.18”), referred to by both parties colloquially as San Diego’s “Ghost Gun Ban.” In essence, Section 53.18 renders it unlawful for any person within the City of San Diego to “possess,” “purchase,” “transport,” “receive,” “sell,” “transfer,” or “offer to transfer an unfinished frame or receiver”—gun components that are necessary to self-manufacture an operable firearm— unless those components are serialized. SDMC § 53.18(c)(1), (2). Plaintiffs challenge 28 Section 53.18…