California Magazine Ban gets Toasted in Court

By Chris Eger

California’s two-decade-old ban on magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds was tossed out by a federal court last week.
U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez handed down an 86-page order on March 29 siding with a group of California residents in conjunction with the National Rifle Association who argue the state’s prohibition against “high-capacity magazines” violates their Second Amendment rights. As such, he found the law unconstitutional and issued an order blocking the state from enforcing it.
“Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts,” began Benitez, a former California Superior Court judge and 2004 appointment to the federal bench by President George W. Bush. He then commenced to riddling state Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office’s logic on the ban, which has been in effect since 2000 and moved to outlaw even previously grandfathered magazines in 2017. The root of the court’s ruling stressed the arbitrary nature of the ban.
“California law presently permits the lethality of a gun with a 10-round magazine. In other words, a gun with an 11-round magazine or a 15-round magazine is apparently too lethal to be possessed by a law-abiding citizen. A gun with a 10-round magazine is not,” he said, arguing that, following the

Source: Guns.com