The U.S. Supreme Court may have guaranteed the right to possess a gun in the home, but it’s still illegal to carry a baseball bat modified into a billy club in the backseat of one’s car, the First District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday.
"In this day and age, as we are all painfully aware, it is often a gun not a billy, sap, or blackjack that is the weapon of choice in most violent crimes," Justice Maria Rivera wrote in People v. Davis. But strapped clubs are "not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes," bringing them outside the protection of District of Columbia v. Heller, the 2008 Supreme Court’s landmark Second Amendment decision, the First District concluded.
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