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Much has been written in the last couple of days regarding United States District Court Judge Roger Benitez’s decision on Friday declaring California’s ban on “assault weapons” as defined in the statute to be an unconstitutional limit on the right of California citizens “to keep and bear arms” under the Second Amendment.
But this was not Judge Benitez’s first foray into Second Amendment jurisprudence that produced a favorable outcome for advocates of Second Amendment rights. Back in August 2020, the Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court decision that similarly found as unconstitutional a related California statute one banning the ownership of “large-capacity magazines.” The author of that lower court decision was Judge Roger Benitez.
The Right To Bear Arms by Stephen P. Halbrook explains clearly & convincingly the importance of the right to bear arms. The information should be shared by everyone – regardless of political ideology.
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The Supreme Court’s already agreed to hear one challenge to a state’s restrictive carry laws this year, but could the Court accept a second case in the coming months? The certiorari petition in
Young v. Hawaii is now on the docket for the Supreme Court to consider, though it will likely be the fall before justices have a chance to consider the case in conference.
You may remember this case because of the atrocious opinion delivered by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals a few months ago, in which the appellate court concluded that Hawaii’s ban on the open carrying of firearms without a license (a license, by the way, that is never granted to average citizens) doesn’t violate the Second Amendment because longstanding Hawaiian tradition trumps the language of the Bill of Rights.
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FILE. Letter writer says, Gov. Andrew Cuomo put it best when he stated in response to the Supreme Court deciding to hear the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association case, the streets of New York are not the OK corral. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)Eric Gay
Some 400 people were killed or wounded by guns, with 25 incidents of mass shootings from May 1-May 9, in multiple states, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Such incidents put the efforts by the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association to allow concealed carry in New York state in fear of our safety.