Gun Control Activists Outraged Over CA Magazine Ban Decision

By Tom Knighton

With last week’s decision repealing California’s magazine ban, gun rights activists rejoiced. After all, the decision decisively smacked down the state’s magazine limit on pretty much every level imaginable, leaving little room for the Ninth Circuit to overturn the decision. It was a thing of beauty for our side, to be sure.

However, it seems the gun control zealots are a bit miffed about it.

Gun control advocates expected U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez’ ruling striking downa California initiative restricting the size of firearm magazines. But they didn’t anticipate the way he did it.

In a fiery 86-page decision released last week, Benitez — appointed to the bench by George W. Bush in 2003 — cited a number of burglary-homicides where he said the amount of ammunition available made the difference between life and death.

He said high-capacity ammunition magazines are protected by a Second Amendment drafted by “colonists who cherished individual freedom more than the subservient security of a British ruler.”

Supporters of California’s law, which voters approved in 2016 as Proposition 63, were startled by the tone of Benitez’s ruling.

“This opinion is not normal,” said Ari Freilich, California legislative affairs director for the Giffords Law …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms