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A federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law set to take effect Saturday that would have barred gun owners from possessing high-capacity ammunition magazines.
The judge ruled that the ban approved by the Legislature last year takes away gun owners' Second Amendment rights and amounts to the government taking people's private property without compensation.
California law has prohibited buying or selling the magazines since 2000, but until now allowed those who had them to keep them.
"If this injunction does not issue, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of otherwise law-abiding citizens will have an untenable choice: become an outlaw or dispossess one's self of lawfully acquired property," San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez wrote.
Another win for the constitution and the citizens of the socialist utopia of California ! woo hoo!
Finally a judge who actually follows the constitution instead of their own personal bias. Good ruling! More freedom is good. Punish the criminals instead of the law abiding citizens. Why do we need more gun laws when the existing ones aren't even enforced? So many times I read stories about people caught in felony possession of a gun and they get a slap on the wrist and sent on their way, and then they act shocked when the person goes to commit a gun crime. It seems like some people are just intent on using the criminals to further their own political agenda, rather than keeping everyone safe.
Sadly, they'll judge shop and get it overturned on appeals. The anti-gun crowd is powerful here.
yes they will, but now that a ruling on the law is in the system, it wont be official until it has gone through the supreme court of the US. the scotus will make a ruling one way or another.
of course then california will try to make another law banning those magazines, but that will will be challenged in court, and the ultimate ruling of this law will be used as precedent for or against this law.
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