San Diego Residents File Suit Over California’s ‘Assault Weapon Ban’

By Tom Knighton

The state of California has the most restrictive “assault weapon ban” in the nation. At a glance, anyone can identify a California-legal rifle due to the goofy way companies are forced to get around those restrictions. And they do, to be sure.

Yet the issue is that California’s ban is still very broad and doesn’t really accomplish as much as many would like to think.

Now, the law is on the line thanks to a lawsuit filed by a group of San Diego residents.

The suit calls California’s usage of the term “assault weapons,” “a politically-concocted pejorative term designed to suggest that there is an inherently unlawful or illegitimate basis for owning otherwise common firearms
protected by the Second Amendment.”

The plaintiffs allege that the state has prohibited certain lawful firearms by designating them assault weapons under faulty rationales, such as basing its assault weapon status on the rifle’s ammunition capacity.

“The government cannot ban the constitutionally-protected firearms at issue in this case,” attorney George M. Lee said. “We look forward to proving that the state’s statutes, policies, and practices at issue in this
case are both unconstitutional and irrational.”

The lawsuit references U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez’s recent ruling that California’s ban on …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms