By Fred Barbash Fred Barbash Law, constitution and courts Email Bio Follow April 1 at 8:14 PM Gun rights advocates are hailing a federal court ruling striking down California’s ban on high-capacity gun magazines as perhaps the broadest and most forceful judicial statement yet of the right to bear arms, an antidote to what they see as treatment of the Second Amendment as a “disfavored right.”
The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action called it “one of the strongest judicial statements in favor of the Second Amendment to date.” In a statement, the group’s executive director, Chris W. Cox, said it was a “landmark recognition of what courts have too often treated as a disfavored right.”
A magazine, for a handgun or a rifle, is a spring-loaded container that feeds ammunition into the chamber of a semiautomatic weapon with each pull of the trigger. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter, for instance, used a rifle with a 30-round magazine, enabling him to fire 154 rounds in less than five minutes. Adam Lanza’s 2012 assault in Newton, Conn., left 28 dead, including 20 young children.
To make that point, Benitez stressed the millions of semiautomatics owned by Americans. It is clearly a weapon of choice, the judge said. The fact that high-capacity magazines may or may not be more “lethal” than bullets in a revolver is not relevant constitutionally, he wrote: “The Second Amendment does not exist to protect the right to bear down pillows and foam baseball bats. It protects guns and every gun is dangerous.”
There’s a reason that it’s in our constitution still valid today! Glad the court saw that truth! If we want to stop the radical assaults we see from time to time, we must address the people issues not gun issues! You can’t create laws to stop INANIMATE objects, they do nothing!
Cocaine, Heroin, Crack, Crystal Meth, E's, & LSD are illegal. Has that stopped their illegal distribution and consumption? NO!! Do they fuel immense illegal enterprises? YES!! Are they a constitutional right? No!! Are Guns? YES!!! Discuss.
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A win for death, for mass murder. There is no other interpretation. This will embolden mass shooters. This is just wrong. It's insane.
Take it to a higher court.if the citizens voted for it
Effing insane
If we could just ban fingers, then no one could pull the trigger!
Of course
It’s happening. We can roll back these stupid gun laws bit by bit now. This is what I’ve been waiting for.
“Woohoo we can kill more people”
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