By LKB Just when I thought the Ninth Circuit could not more brazenly thumb its collective nose at the Supreme Court and the Bruen decision, over the weekend a Ninth Circuit panel proved once more…
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Last month, District Court Judge Roger Benitez once again ruled in Duncan v. Bonta that California’s “high capacity” magazine ban is unconstitutional. The first time, he made that judgement under Heller. This time, the ruling…
By LKB As a federal trial attorney with appellate experience, including clerking for a United States Court of Appeals judge decades ago, I tend to discount a lot of the “conspiracy theories” non-lawyers often postulate…
“If you need…” *Biden whimpers* “…80 shots in a magazine…” *Biden whimpers again* “…you shouldn’t own a gun.” – Joe Biden: Weapons Expert Of course, this is a boogeyman argument, because you can’t name one…
If you’ll remember, Judge Roger Benitez struck down California’s ban on standard capacity magazines the state had arbitrarily ruled to be “high capacity.” That ruling was, of course, overturned by an en banc Ninth Circuit…
I spent much of the last week assisting my brilliant colleagues in preparing their supplemental brief in Duncan v. Bonta. This is the magazine-capacity case that kicked off the now-famous “freedom week” in California…
By Lee Williams The Los Angeles Police Department has stopped enforcing California’s state law banning “high capacity” magazines, according to an internal LAPD email obtained by the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. The email…
As expected, this morning the Supreme Court sent a number of gun rights-related cases it had been holding back to lower courts for reconsideration now that New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen is…
Last month, an en banc ruling by the Ninth District Court of Appeals upheld California’s ban on so-called high capacity magazines…basically any magazine that will hold more than ten rounds of ammunition. The ruling outlaws…
By Larry Keane The second-class treatment of Second Amendment rights continues. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Duncan v. Bonta ruled en banc that California’s ban on standard capacity magazines does not violate the Second…