Judge tosses California ammunition purchase law

[Elderberry]

Fox26 News by DON THOMPSON 4/23/2020

A federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law requiring background checks for people buying ammunition, issuing a sharply worded rebuke of “onerous and convoluted” regulations that violate the constitutional right to bear arms.

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego ruled in favor of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which asked him to stop the checks and related restrictions on ammo sales.

“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 a 120-page opinion granting the group's motion for a preliminary injunction.

Voters approved toughening California’s already strict firearms laws in 2016, and the restrictions took effect last July.

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[PeteS in CA]

Well, this one's on a course to the USSC. While Judge Benitez is a GWB appointee, Trump has had significant effect in the Ninth Circuit, so what happens at the Court of Appeals could be interesting. On its face, this law imposes a very substantial, recurring burden on simply exercising one's Second Amendment rights, so it should be @#$%-canned in a unanimous decision, but it's the Ninth Circuit/Circus ...