Originally set forth in California’s 2016 Proposition 63, these ammunition buying restrictions changed how law abiding Californians could purchase ammunition when they took effect in 2019. Newsom and Bonta need to end their assaults on Californians’ right to defend themselves.On Tuesday JanuFederal Judge Roger Benitez issued an injunction preventing the California Attorney General, Rob Bonta or any of his agents from enforcing the Golden State’s current unconstitutional ammunition purchasing restrictions. There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Ted Lieu of Los Angeles, who reminded her, ““No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution. She was rebuffed in court and even by such liberal Democrats as Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico tried banning open carry of legal guns. Ironically, that’s a tacit admission the restrictions he favors currently are unconstitutional.Įarlier this month Democratic Gov. That was a reference to Newsom’s proposed 28th Amendment that, among other things, would ban so-called “assault weapons,” which really are just cosmetically mean-looking rifles. Unless we enshrine a Right to Safety in the Constitution, we are at the mercy of ideologues like Judge Benitez.” He said, “We will continue to fight for our authority to keep Californians safe from weapon enhancements designed to cause mass casualties.” Newsom said, “It’s time to wake up. And that criminals don’t follow gun laws.īenitez performed a “masterful job at the molecular level” of picking apart “every argument put forth by the state of California” and other states to limit the Second Amendment, Sam Paredes told us he’s the executive director of Gun Owners of California, which filed an amicus brief in the case.īonta, who we endorsed for re-election last year, filed an appeal.

One daughter was killed and the father wounded three times as he returned fire with 11 rounds from one gun and eight from a second, failing to hit the assailant, who later was arrested.īenitez also noted 81 million Americans own up to 456 million firearms. In Kentucky, an intruder came in blasting at a family. He cited several cases of self-defense where small magazines were inadequate in fighting off criminals. And state bans are not uniform and “arbitrary.” He noted there is no federal ban on such magazines. In his new Miller case decision, Benitez held, “Based on the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment, this law is clearly unconstitutional … There is no American tradition of limiting ammunition capacity and the 10-round limit has no historical pedigree and it is arbitrary and capricious. The top court also ordered the Miller case heard again by Benitez. Supreme Court strongly affirmed Second Amendment protections in its Jdecision, NYSRPA v. Sixteen days later a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit stayed the ruling, leaving the law in place. On JBenitez originally ruled the ban unconstitutional. The ban derived from Proposition 63 in 2016. District Court, part of the Ninth Circuit.

22, their attempt to limit rifle and pistol magazines to 10 bullets again was shot down by Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of the U.S. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta and others to realize California’s gun laws must follow the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America?

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