[july4thfreedomfoundation]

What about California’s “Assault Weapons” ban?

Does anyone know if this will be overturned in California?

[Cboldt]

-- What about California's "Assault Weapons" ban? --

I would expect any lower federal court to uphold just about any ban, registration scheme, license fee, etc. that the elected politicians manage to pass. The chances of SCOTUS taking up a case that doesn't represent an effective outright ban on possession of ANY/ALL firearms is close to zero.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The assault weapons ban is here to stay unless or until the Supremes call that an “unreasonable restriction”. I don’t see that happening in my lifetime. I can only hope.

Obviously, modern military arms are exactly the kinds of weapons the Founders wanted protected by our inalienable rights codified under the Second Amendment.

I can’t see a case coming before SCOTUS that tests this out. Not until a lot more progress is made scaling back restrictions on less “scary” looking guns.

I think the ban on semi-automtic guns firing relatively mild rifle cartridges like the .223 and 3.62x39 is patently unconstitutional in any reading of the Second Amendment, but being practical, I think it is going to take much longer for the legal system to sort out whether having more than 10 rounds in a rifle with a pistol grip is a reasonable restriction or not.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

What about California’s “Assault Weapons” ban?

Would this be the gun-ban signed into law by a Republican Governor?

[Mariner]

"What about California’s “Assault Weapons” ban?"

I can't see this one surviving scrutiny. It's clearly an unequal application of a fundamental right, as is the arbitrary and capricious application of California's CCW permitting process.