AmmoLand Cited in California Magazine Case

By John Crump

San Diego, Calif. –-(Ammoland.com)-The plaintiff in the California magazine limitation case has cited an AmmoLand article as exhibit one in their response to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s petition for a stay of the judge’s decision.

Last Friday, San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez declared that laws limiting magazine size violate the Second Amendment. He cited multiple home invasions that were stopped by citizens using magazines holding more than ten rounds. He pointed out that guns are more likely to be used in self-defense than in mass shootings which he called exceedingly rare”.

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

Almost immediately online retailers resumed shipping magazines to the Golden State for the first time since the year 2000. California residents started buying up magazines by the dozens. Servers even crashed due to the expanded workload.

AG Becerra vowed to fight the ruling even if it required going all the way to the Supreme Court. The first stop would be the very left-leaning Ninth Circuit Court. He expressed the need to prevent sales to residents of California.

On April 1st counsel for the AG, John D. Echeverria, called the law firm …Read the Rest

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