California’s Ammo Background Check Law Knocked Down

By John Crump

SAN DIEGO, CA –-(Ammoland.com)- Last year U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California struck down California’s magazine ban (Duncan v. Becerra). For one week, there was a buying frenzy of magazines hold over 10 rounds until the courts granted the state an injunction against the ruling.

Less than 13 months later, the George W. Bush appointee has dealt another blow against Draconian California gun laws. The judge overturned a state law requiring background checks on all purchases of ammunition.

“The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,” Judge Benitez said in his ruling Thursday evening.

In 2016, then-Lt Governor Gavin Newson championed California Proposition 63, which required buyers to pass a background to buy ammunition. Anti-gun U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein wrote the official argument in support of Proposition 63 that the state printed in their official voter’s guide. The ballot measure passed a popular vote and was signed into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown.

In April of 2018, the California Rifle & Pistol Association, along with Olympic …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand