9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Sep. 25, 2023
State’s large capacity magazine ban heads to 9th Circuit
“The history and tradition of the Second Amendment clearly supports state laws against the use or misuse of firearms with unlawful intent, but not the disarmament of the law-abiding citizen,” Senior U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez ruled.
California’s ban on large capacity gun magazines is headed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a federal judge in San Diego ruled Friday, for the second time, that the law is unconstitutional.
“There is no American history or tradition of regulating firearms based on the number of rounds they can shoot, or of regulating the amount of ammunition that can be kept and carried,” wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez, an ...
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