New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- A US appeals court reportedly ruled on Friday that a ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of California was unconstitutional.

According to Reuters, the San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling, cited a recent US Supreme Court decision and said the ban violates Californians' Second Amendment rights and conflicts with "this Nation's history and tradition."

A panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals reportedly sided 2-1 with a gun owner in ruling that the state's prohibition against open carry in counties with more than 200,000 people violated the US Constitution's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, who was appointe...