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Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Ban On High-Capacity Magazines

"A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday threw out California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, saying the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s protection of the right to bear firearms.

“Even well-intentioned laws must pass constitutional muster,” Appellate Judge Kenneth Lee wrote for the panel’s majority. California’s ban on magazines holding more than 10 bullets “strikes at the core of the Second Amendment — the right to armed self-defense.”

He noted that California passed the law “in the wake of heart-wrenching and highly publicized mass shootings,” but said that isn’t enough to justify a ban whose scope “is so sweeping that half of all magazines in America are now unlawful to own in California.”

https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2020/08/ninth-circuit-strikes-ban-high-capacity-magazines/

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Aug 15, 2020, 9:56 AM

Rock on.

So now all we need to do is get smart bombs, stealth fighters, realtime satellite feeds, drones, targeting lasers, nerve gas, tanks, helicopters, aircraft carriers, cruise missiles, and atomic weapons into the hands of the militias and we can balance the power of the Federal government out with the state militias again...which was the intent of the 2nd Amendment.

I just don't see that happening.

The Constitution was written in 1787. Technology has unfortunately rendered the intent of that amendment largely irrelevant...though the GOP's thinking on the subject has assuredly not changed. Instead they allowed the NRA to frame the discussion...and all the NRA has done is protect their product, while claiming to be the sword defenders of the Second Amdendment.

They are not.

An adult's discussion of the 2nd Amendment simply cannot be had without asking: hey, what's the real balance we need to strike between state's rights...and the power of the Federal government?

You start answering that quesiton, and you start actually getting somewhere...and you start realizing that there is indeed a way out of this partisan logjam we are currently embroiled in...which is basically trying to force a one-size-fits-all solution onto the entire nation.

A ban on magazines (or not) doesn't change that discussion one iota. All it's going to do is make the body count larger for future mass shootings...while not actually helping to balance the power equation at all.

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A win for the 2nd amendment.

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abortion is in the constitution why not magazines***

Whatever the government has, the citizens should have

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yes technology has cast its vote for Tyranny by the few

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I seem to recall the "magazine" capacity

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That's not honest.

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As a history major the 2nd was meant for citizens to protect themselves from..

Seattle looks a lot like Hong Kong

THIS is the LOFL comment of ALL TIME

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