California Tried To Force Background Checks For Ammo. A Judge Sided With The Second Amendment.Daily Wire, Apr 24, 2020
A federal judge has blocked a California law that required law-abiding residents to go through a background check every time they purchased ammunition.
The Associated Press reported that U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez ruled against the state of California on Thursday, taking the state to task for its “onerous and convoluted†regulations that violated residents’ Second Amendment rights.
“The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,†Benitez wrote in his 120-page opinion.
“Criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don’t do background checks,†he added. “The background check experiment defies common sense while unduly and severely burdening the Second Amendment rights of every responsible, gun-owning citizen desiring to lawfully buy ammunition.â€
Benitez explained that even though the law was supposed to stop criminals from buying ammunition, it denied ammo to law-abiding gun owners 16% of the time. Also, the judge wrote, the state ban on importing ammo from other states violated federal interstate commerce laws, the AP reported. The law, Benitez argued, kept out-of-state sellers from reaching California’s market, which violates federal law.
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