9th Circuit Court rules California’s high capacity magazine ban is unconstitutional

  According to this story we got a second amendment victory from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that California’s ban on “high capacity” magazines is unconstitutional. Here is more:

The 9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-level court’s decision that ruled California’s ban on high capacity ammunition magazines is unconstitutional, according to documents published Friday.

Since 2016, California gun owners were unable to possess large-capacity magazines (LCM) defined as magazines built to contain more than 10 rounds.

  Timeout. Calling a magazine that holds over 10 rounds “high capacity” is just plain silly , as we will see below, but I digress. Here is more on the decision:

Appellate Judge Kenneth Lee, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote the majority opinion in which he said the ban on magazine capacity “struck at the core right of law-abiding citizens to self-defend by banning LCM possession within the home.”

“California’s near-categorical ban of LCMs strikes at the core of the Second Amendment-the right to armed self-defense. Armed self-defense is a fundamental right rooted in tradition and the text of the Second Amendment,” Lee wrote.

Lee went on to say the law imposed a “substantial burden” on the “right to self-defense,” noting the law criminalized magazines that come standard in most handguns. 

  Judge Lee got to the crux of the matter, this so-called high capacity magazine ban would have made most handguns illegal and I believe that this was nothing more than an attempt at doing just that. It is either that or the people who are writing the laws have no idea what they are talking about…

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium