Appeals panel says California can enforce ammo background check

[Elderberry]

San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Egelko May 14, 2020

A federal appeals court allowed California to enforce its voter-approved requirement of background checks for purchasers of ammunition on Thursday and said the state was likely to win reversal of a judge’s ruling that the law violated the constitutional right to bear arms.

The checks, similar to those required nationally for firearms bought from a licensed dealer, were part of Proposition 63, a gun-control initiative sponsored by then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and approved by 63% of the voters in 2016. It did not take effect until last summer, and was promptly challenged by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, an affiliate of the National Rifle Association..

In a preliminary injunction order April 23, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego said, “Criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don’t do background checks. 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.”

More: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Appeals-panel-says-state-can-enforce-ammo-15271767.php

[PeteS in CA]

This case will be appealed to the USSC, regardless of its outcome in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

[sneakypete]

San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Egelko May 14, 2020

A federal appeals court allowed California to enforce its voter-approved requirement of background checks for purchasers of ammunition on Thursday and said the state was likely to win reversal of a judge’s ruling that the law violated the constitutional right to bear arms.

The checks, similar to those required nationally for firearms bought from a licensed dealer, were part of Proposition 63, a gun-control initiative sponsored by then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and approved by 63% of the voters in 2016. It did not take effect until last summer, and was promptly challenged by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, an affiliate of the National Rifle Association..

In a preliminary injunction order April 23, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego said, “Criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don’t do background checks. 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.”

More: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Appeals-panel-says-state-can-enforce-ammo-15271767.php

@Elderberry

Good man! I hope somebody has put his name down high on the list of future SC Justices!