Posted on 08/14/2020 12:34:26 PM PDT by cba123
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday threw out California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, saying the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s protection of the right to bear firearms.
“Even well-intentioned laws must pass constitutional muster,” appellate Judge Kenneth Lee wrote for the panel’s majority. California’s ban on magazines holding more than 10 bullets “strikes at the core of the Second Amendment — the right to armed self-defense.”
He noted that California passed the law “in the wake of heart-wrenching and highly publicized mass shootings,” but said that isn’t enough to justify a ban whose scope “is so sweeping that half of all magazines in America are now unlawful to own in California.”
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I wonder if this will help defeat the bulls&t that Vermont enacted not long ago.
More are better than fewer! :^).
Same here. I can’t get them shipped in though. I’ve got all kinds of magazines but I’d love to get my hands on Vietnam era 20 rounders for an SPR.
This also happened a couple of years ago when a judge put on hold the magazine law. As a result, magazine makers flooded Cali with hi-cap magazines for a few weeks.
Here is a link to my favorite hi-cap magazine, the Pro-Mag D60. just for California. The illustration on the box is a hoot!
https://images.proxibid.com/AuctionImages/6896/164731/205.jpg
NY is screwed.
CA will ask for en banc.
Well, well nothing.
This is going to an en banc panel, where it will get slapped down. Then SCOTUS will decline to review, and the en banc ruling will stand.
Actually, the 2nd makes no reference to self-defense though it is implied. It is not the “core” of the 2nd. The introductory portion regarding the well ordered militia indicates the primary purpose, the “core” of the Amendment.
Too late, I got excited right away!
sounds great, do you happen to know any online stores selling them (or similar is fine) today into Californication? thanks
Just in time for the Antifa war in November.
Hopefully, this means a few home invasions won’t go exactly as planned.
the Pro-Mag D60.
They’re standard capacity mags.
Will be interesting to see if Becera tries to appeal to SCOTUS, or if he asks for an En Banc hearing of the 9th circus.
In the interim, here’s hoping that the stay is lifted and people can again enjoy an enumerated right, even in California.
No one expects the Nazis to give up the fight do they?
And while all this is going on they are laughing their asses off because they have made it almost impossible for anyone in California to buy ammunition to put in those magazines...........legally.
I hope NY is also in the mix.
Hell i’ve always been in the mix, don’t have a single mag under 20 capacity.
Winning.
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