NINTH CIRCUIT DECIDES THAT CA IS COVERED BY THE BILL OF RIGHTS

by Bob Walsh


Yesterday the Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling asserting that the CA "high capacity magazine" ban was in fact an unconstitutional infringement on the Second Amendment rights of the citizens and legal residents of the formerly great state of California.


The vote of the panel was 2-1.  


The case, Duncan V. Becerra, was decided in April by Judge Benitez in the federal district court, but the judge stayed that ruling.  The district court will now have to issue a new order lifting the stay, which will take a couple of days.  The state could appeal to the Supreme Court.  They might just to be a bunch of dicks.  I doubt it will do them much good, but CA is fond of grand foolish gestures on general principles.


The court ruled, among other things, that the magazines were neither "dangerous and unusual" and were in fact commonly used for completely lawful purposes.