Federal Court Spanks California Over Magazine Capacity Limit

By Tom Knighton

Based on what I write, it’s kind of hard for me to view California as anything but a synonym for gun control. It’s like the state has never met a gun control measure it didn’t like, putting forth the toughest gun laws in the nation. Gun law, I might add, that haven’t prevented mass shootings or criminal activity.

Still, they pass more gun laws.

Well, now, thanks to a lawsuit in federal court, it looks like they may end up with one less, and this one could have ramifications throughout the nation.

In one of the strongest judicial statements in favor of the Second Amendment to date, Judge Roger T. Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California determined on Friday that California’s ban on commonly possessed firearm magazines violates the Second Amendment.

The case is Duncan v. Becerra.

The NRA-supported case had already been up to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on the question of whether the law’s enforcement should be suspended during proceedings on its constitutionality. Last July, a three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit upheld Judge Benitez’s suspension of enforcement and sent the case back to him …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms