California Ban on Normal Gun Magazines Struck Down, Sales of Mags Resume

By John Crump

Opinion

SACRAMENTO, Calif. –-(Ammoland.com)-The California ban on standard capacity magazines has been knocked down by a federal judge.

San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez declared that laws limiting magazine size violate the Second Amendment. Previously California residents were banned from buying magazines holding more than ten rounds since 2000.

The California law initially grandfathered the magazines that were in the state prior to 2000. In 2016 the California legislature voted to remove the provision that grandfathered these previously legal magazines.

The California Rifle & Pistol Association and the NRA sued over the requirement arguing that by removing the “grandfather” provision that the law violated the Second Amendment rights of the people of the state.

Judge Benitez, who was appointed by George W. Bush, reviewed all information and ruled that any ban of magazine size violated the Second Amendment. In 2017 he issued a stay against the removal of the grandfather clause.

“Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts,” Judge Benitez wrote in his decision.

The Cuban born judge also pointed to the dangers of home invasions in his ruling. He specifically named three home invasion cases in the ruling. Two of the cases involved woman who used …Read the Rest

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