For anyone who hasn't read the opinion, Judge Legg first establishes that 2nd Amendment cases should be decided using intermediate scrutiny (that the state must have an important interest and that the policy be written in such a way that is substantially related to that interest.) Legg establishes that the state has an important interest in protecting public safety, but finds that Maryland's law isn't substantially related to that interest. He compares the permitting process to randomly handing out a permit to every tenth applicant, which obviously doesn't advance the state's interest in keeping guns out of the hands of bad people.
Of course, this has no direct bearing on CA as findings from different districts don't affect us. This ruling will only help us IF a contradictory ruling is made in our district, in which case the Supreme Court will be obliged to step in and resolve the contradiction.
Anyone have a good CA lawsuit that can survive to the Ninth Circuit? =)