Posted on 05/14/2022 4:59:06 AM PDT by marktwain
On May 11, 2022, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit, based in California, struck down California’s ban on the sale of semi-automatic centerfire rifles to young adults ages 18-20. The case is Jones v. Bonta. Bonta is the current Attorney General of the State of California. The opinion was filed a year after the appeal was submitted on May 12, 2021.
The decision was mixed, with Judges Nelson and Lee in the majority and Judge Stein dissenting.
The District Court had held a requirement to possess a hunting license in order to purchase any long gun which was permissible under the Constitution and intermediate scrutiny. State law was changed while the case was under review to ban nearly all 18-20-year-old people from purchasing centerfire semi-automatic long guns. The plaintiffs were allowed to amend their complaints. The District Court then held the ban on semi-automatic centerfire rifles did not violate the Second Amendment.
The three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit disagreed. They held the requirement for a hunting license did not violate the Second Amendment, but the ban on the purchase of semi-automatic rifles by 18-20-year-old people violated the Second Amendment. From the decision:
America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army. Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.
California has restricted the sale of most firearms to anyone under 21. Plaintiffs challenged the bans on long guns and semiautomatic centerfire rifles under the Second Amendment. The district court declined to issue a preliminary injunction.
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CA habitually violates every portion of the Constitution, so this is nothing new or shocking.
Imagine “common sense gun control” that attempted to restrict sales of guns by race.
The left just does not understand the word “infringe”. I don’t believe you should have to purchase a hunting license in order to buy a gun. To me that is having to buy the right to purchase a gun which is “limiting” your right to own a gun.
They understand it. They simply hate it.
They do not support the rule of law or the Constitution.
They hate the idea of limited government.
They want the rule of men, with them picking the men.
Every gun law ever passed in this country everywhere is an infringement and unconstitutional!🤬
The people have allowed it because of their ignorance of our Constitution!😡
The individuals in California who draft these unconstitutional laws need to be personally charged for the taxpayers’ money. They also need to be charged personally for the wrongs they committed to the victims.
Right decision, wrong legal reasoning.
Can you imagine 20-year-old 2nd Lieutenant Audie Murphy coming home from Germany, wearing his Medal of Honor around his neck, walks into an Ace Hardware (who back then used to sell guns), tells them he wants to buy a Browning SA-22 semi-auto rimfire rifle, and they refuse to sell it to him because he isn’t yet 21 years of age?
The California law would exempt him, because he is active duty military.
That reminds me I got my first .22 back in 1961. I was fourteen years old.
This 'opinion' is dead in the water when the full court convenes.
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