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9th Circuit ends California ban on high-capacity magazines
AP News ^ | 16 minutes ago | By DON THOMPSON

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; 9thcircuit; again; banglist; ca; california; newjersey; ninthcircuit; nra; secondamendment
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To: heshtesh

Considering the real compliance to the safe act was about 1%, there are a lot of them out there.


41 posted on 08/14/2020 1:48:58 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: cba123

We won for once. I, for one, am shocked. I knew that Trump was remaking the 9th, but this is outstanding.


42 posted on 08/14/2020 1:57:27 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: rktman

It’s hard to make a magazine cycle properly that holds 60 rounds. Wind-up drums? 100 rounds, all day.


43 posted on 08/14/2020 1:58:34 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Okay. Twin 50 rd drums.


44 posted on 08/14/2020 2:10:15 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Only 3 judge panel. You know what that means. Maybe not over yet.


45 posted on 08/14/2020 2:11:53 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: cba123
An interesting quote from the opinion.

Previously, the opinion had discussed rural citizens that might need to be able to use firearms with large capacity magazines to prevent assault and burglary as police/sheriff response times may be quite long.

I love the fact that the judge us using the gun grabbing Harris' own words against her.

HA!

46 posted on 08/14/2020 2:12:43 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: CodeToad

For some perverse reason, I prefer the 20 round magazines. Still recall how little and light they were compared to the 20 round M-14 mags. Running with five 7.62 loaded mags banging away on your belts was real pain.


47 posted on 08/14/2020 2:28:53 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: doorgunner69

Prone is a pain with 30-rounders.


48 posted on 08/14/2020 2:32:15 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: RandallFlagg

How does that work? What is the exception the shop, and you, are going by?


49 posted on 08/14/2020 2:48:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (Wear Your Mask/Stay In Your Home/Do What You're Told/Vote Democrat)
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To: TigersEye

I don’t remember how it was explained to me. But it would seem that everybody is ignoring the law. I told the guy in the shop by my house that the shop that I used to go to for magazines got broken into and went out of business. And I asked them if they could order me the magazines, and he said yes.


50 posted on 08/14/2020 3:20:12 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: RandallFlagg

OK. I’m impressed and somewhat encouraged. :)


51 posted on 08/14/2020 3:27:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (Wear Your Mask-Stay In Your Home-Do What You're Told-Vote Democrat)
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To: cba123

Send it to SCOTUS. Roberts will reinstate it.


52 posted on 08/14/2020 3:27:48 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: griffin

Locked and loaded let the shooting begin


53 posted on 08/14/2020 3:34:03 PM PDT by genghis
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To: TigersEye

Personally, I wouldn’t try a big box store. Try a small shop and just make a curious inquiry. Perhaps use my story.


54 posted on 08/14/2020 3:52:09 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: RandallFlagg

I’m not really shopping. Just curious about what’s going on out there.

I bought so many mags for my SKS before the ban I could barely carry them all fully loaded.

What bugs me is not being able to buy a new pistol that uses mags with more than 15 rds. Among other reasons I’d like a new pistol or two more capacity is a big one.


55 posted on 08/14/2020 4:02:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (Wear Your Mask-Stay In Your Home-Do What You're Told-Vote Democrat)
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To: RandallFlagg

If you don’t use em for shooting, they make great barter material.


56 posted on 08/14/2020 4:36:18 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: TigersEye

Well, that’s what I got when I went. Picked up two Beretta 92 30 round magazines for about $80.


57 posted on 08/14/2020 4:38:07 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: CodeToad

Yup, 20 is plenty, and a drum works but God is it heavy with 762 x 39.


58 posted on 08/14/2020 4:44:25 PM PDT by refermech
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To: cba123
“Even well-intentioned laws must pass constitutional muster,” appellate Judge Kenneth Lee wrote for the panel’s majority.

Finally - a judge that thinks like I do - I usually state it as,
"The Constitution doesn't have a 'Noble Cause' clause"

59 posted on 08/15/2020 2:16:34 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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