Ruling today - CA "aslt wpns" ban is unconstitutional

[grayfox]

Coming out of the southern district, Judge Benitez ruled today that the CA ban on "ARs" is unconstitutional. Couple of videos on this also.

FPC WIN: Federal Judge Again Strikes Down California “Assault Weapon” Ban - Firearms Policy Coalition

Mr gunsngear, Armed scholar, etc.

Once again, some excellent reasoning in this 80 page ruling. 'Course it might wind up at the SCOTUS but a 4th ckt case on Maryland's same-kind-of ban may make it there first.

[SDW]

I think it was actually a couple of days ago, but yeah. It finally happened. We'll see where this one goes. Hopefully, where it should.

[jasper2408]

Also related:

Plaintiffs challenging Illinois’ gun ban hope a ruling out of a California federal court plays a role in the potential outcome in Illinois.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has justified the state’s gun and magazine ban he enacted earlier this year by pointing to several other states with similar bans. However, on Thursday, a federal judge out of California struck down that state’s ban on certain semi-automatic firearms with a permanent injunction.

Among other issues laid out in his 79-page ruling, the judge rejected California’s argument that actual use in self-defense shootings is the relevant metric of “common use,” a similar argument Illinois is making in defending the Land of Lincoln’s gun ban.

“An AR-15 under one’s bed at night is being used for self-defense even when the night is quiet,” Judge Roger T. Benitez wrote.

Benitez gave California 10 days to secure a stay from an appeals court on his permanent injunction before it goes into effect. California appealed to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals late Thursday.

Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb is a plaintiff in California and in Illinois, where a case is pending in the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

“We already won at a lower court level in Illinois on this issue already,” Gottlieb said.

In late April, Southern District of Illinois federal Judge Stephen McGlynn issued a preliminary injunction against Illinois’ gun and magazine ban on Second Amendment grounds. That injunction was stayed by the appeals court with a formal ruling still pending.

“So, is it going to affect the appeal, but again, if it’s illegal and unconstitutional in California, it’s also illegal and unconstitutional in Illinois as well,” Gottlieb told The Center Square. “This strengthens our Illinois challenge.”

Plaintiffs Friday filed with the Illinois appeals court to take note of the California decision.

“That ruling comports with the District Court ruling in Caleb Barnett, et al. and may be of considerable persuasive value to this court,” attorney C.D. Michel said in a filing to the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on behalf of plaintiffs. “More importantly, and as Plaintiffs have argued in this case, dramatic leaps in firearm technology did happen in the 19th century, but they were never banned.”

After Thursday’s ruling, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the judge is partisan and the decision reinforces the need for a constitutional amendment.

“Today, a right-wing, NRA puppet – Judge Roger Benitez – tried to strip away CA’s three-decade-old assault weapon ban – comparing an assault rifle to a knife,” Newsom posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “An absolute disgrace. This is exactly why America needs a constitutional amendment to enshrine commonsense gun safety reforms. Until then, extremist judges will continue to tear down the will of the American people.”

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said there’s a “better than 30%” chance Illinois’ gun and magazine ban survives in the federal courts and pushed for new justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Where is this all going? We need to make sure that people are appointed to the Supreme Court who are going to do the right thing,” Pritzker said.

Gottlieb said it’s the governors supporting bans of commonly owned firearms who are extreme.

“Well, these judges aren’t radical. Politicians like Gavin Newsom and Pritzker, they’re the radicals and the proof of it is that they want to pass a new amendment to the Constitution to eradicate the Second Amendment and take away people’s gun rights,” Gottlieb said. “That is what is dangerous and unusual and radical.”

It’s unclear when the Seventh Circuit will issue its ruling on Illinois’ gun ban. The court heard the case in late June.

[Konocti's Wigwam]

Don't believe anything about California until it is official and cast in stone. The Governor (Newsom) and AG (Bonta) will do anything they can which is unconstitutional to prevent people from using firearms, period.

They do not care about violating our rights, they've been doing it for years. They do not care about the law, they will jack the residents around with unconstitutional law that will hold things up in the court system.

Do not believe anything either of those pukes say.

[LRRPF52]

Lots of descendants of mobsters and commies when you look at these people.

Nancy Pelosi’s dad was Mafia stooge and Baltimore mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., after serving the Mafia as a Maryland Congressman. He was under investigation by the FBI for his organized crime connections, which were kept secret and not unsealed until after Jan 13, 2021. Kennedy mob was trying to appoint him as a US DoD contract oversight chairman in 1961, which triggered the FBI investigation.



CA Attorney General Bonta was literally raised in a trailer at the United Farm Workers headquarters near Keene. UFW is a Soviet front designed to agitate immigrant farm workers to rise up per Marx’s formula for the agricultural peasant class. We’re talking about César Chávez and the CSO/Saul Alinsky agitators.

Gavin Newsom used to work for Willie Brown, the SF Mayor who Kamala demonstrated her oratory and horizontal supine skills to in order to get into her positions of power. In his early days in the CA State Assembly Speaker position, he freaking was master of ceremonies for Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple (yes that Jim Jones/cool-aid cult mass murderer). Willie Brown described Jim Jones this way: "Let me present to you a combination of Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein ... Chairman Mao.”





Newsom is also the nephew of Ron Pelosi, Nancy’s bother-in-law.

CA is literally run by officially-affiliated long-time communists and Mafia. They don’t give a rip about people they see as peasants under their feet, to be ruled, beaten, taxed, manipulated, and exploited at their will. They have ties to billionaires and critical nodes of society that common people will never see.



The Mafia was buying judges already since the 1920s with all the billions they made during Prohibition.

[LRRPF52]

Scorsese or Tarantino could do a bang-up movie on San Fran Democrat party connections with Jim Jones.

Grandchildren of Prohibition-era mobsters are passing the reigns of power to their kids and family.

They couldn’t care less about what some judges say, and are going to do everything in their power to keep the people of CA disarmed.

Their police forces will do their bidding, not any actual written laws of the US.

[SDW]

Lots of descendants of mobsters and commies when you look at these people.

Gavin Newsom used to work for Willie Brown, the SF Mayor who Kamala demonstrated her oratory and horizontal supine skills to in order to get into her positions of power. In his early days in the CA State Assembly Speaker position, he freaking was master of ceremonies for Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple (yes that Jim Jones/cool-aid cult mass murderer). Willie Brown described Jim Jones this way: "Let me present to you a combination of Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein ... Chairman Mao.”

Newsom is also the nephew of Ron Pelosi, Nancy’s bother-in-law.

CA is literally run by officially-affiliated long-time communists and Mafia. They don’t give a rip about people they see as peasants under their feet, to be ruled, beaten, taxed, manipulated, and exploited at their will. They have ties to billionaires and critical nodes of society that common people will never see.

Yep. They're a bunch of panderers as well, mainly wanting power. Makes me think of this Thomas Sowell quote:

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

[Konocti's Wigwam]

F#@$ Newsom...what a POS...most of CA's gun control was pushed upon the residents by FeinFrankenStein, and now that she's got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, her days are numbered.

Harris and now Newsom are just trying to make a name for themselves. Odd that someone would try to make a name for themselves with gun control...:eek:

[SDW]

F#@$ Newsom...what a POS...most of CA's gun control was pushed upon the residents by FeinFrankenStein, and now that she's got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, her days are numbered.

Harris and now Newsom are just trying to make a name for themselves. Odd that someone would try to make a name for themselves with gun control...:eek:

That foot finally slipped. Feinstein died on Sept 29.

[Konocti's Wigwam]

That foot finally slipped. Feinstein died on Sept 29.

No $#!T ??? I didn't know that...hail, hail the witch is dead!

That was a bad influence on CA for years. I have no respect for dishonest people, and that includes Feinstein's husband who mysteriously received Govt bids for airport construction. Include the <cough> high speed train project...

[LRRPF52]

No $#!T ??? I didn't know that...hail, hail the witch is dead!

That was a bad influence on CA for years. I have no respect for dishonest people, and that includes Feinstein's husband who mysteriously received Govt bids for airport construction. Include the <cough> high speed train project...

The Feinsteins, Pelosis, and Newsoms are perfect examples of graft and corruption that is the fabric of CA government, just like New York, Maryland, Illinois, Nevada, and other Mafia strongholds where their attorneys inherited the empires the gangsters initially built. You still see the family connections in-place though.

In Las Vegas, Mayor Goodman played himself in Casino. His wife is now the Mayor, since they have term limits. Easy way to work around term limits for organized criminals is just hand the reigns over to family.

Governed by gangsters and their Gestapo.