Posted on 06/10/2025 6:32:54 AM PDT by marktwain
On April 24, 2024, Gary R. Sanchez filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Rob Bonta, representing the State of California. The suit alleges California banned firearms suppressors in violation of the Second Amendment. Sanchez acted as his own attorney in the case. The district judge granted AG Bonta’s motion to dismiss the case, finding suppressors were not covered by the Second Amendment, because they were “only” accessories, not “arms”.
Sanchez appealed the case to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on September 6, 2024. The Ninth Circuit has historically been one of the circuits most openly defying Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment. The California Rifle and Pistol Association asked Michel & Associates, as well as Cooper & Kirk, to offer assistance to Gary Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez has accepted the offer and the Ninth Circuit has agreed to accept both Michel & Associates and Cooper & Kirk as representing Sanchez in this case.
As of April 10, 2025, both parties have filed Replacement Opening and Replacement Answering Briefs from the Plaintiff-Appellant (Sanchez) and the Appellee (AG Bonta’s office) in the case. The arguments have become predictable. Sanchez argues silencers are arms covered by the Second Amendment as accessories that make firearms more useful for self-defense, training, and the general safety of firearms users and others. They are in common use, the standard put forward in Heller, McDonald, and Bruen.
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Thank Heaven. I have plenty of places on our property to shoot safely, but I don’t want to be rattling the neighborhood. The nearest range is nearly an hour away. I need the practice and a silencer on my Mini-14 in 300 BLK would save me a LOT of time (my coyote gun).
Unfortunately, the judicial process is very slow.
IMHO, the Ninth Circuit is deliberately slowing the process, hoping they can somehow, someway, flip the Supreme Court back to a Progressive Court rather then the Originalist Court it has become.
I think you'd agree. :-)
Think of how much money would have been saved if shop owners in LA could have defended their property.
Sure. It is always a matter of degree.
I could have said “mostly originalist”.
The problem we face is, it is difficult to save a republic by using extrajudicial means.
Our opponents want destruction, if they are self aware or they simply lie to themselves in order to gain short term advantages.
Those who wish to save the Republic necessarily wish to save the norms and legal standards of the Republic.
I LIKE it! It's just tongue-in-cheek enough to get the neurons working in its victims. I may borrow it with your permission, with attribution of course.
No thinking necessary, just do a search on youtube:
"la riots 1992 rooftop Koreans" Just 33 year's ago.
Spoiler Alert: Koreans were kicking A$$, SAVING their Property & Goods.
Knew that.
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