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Judge blocks California law requiring background checks to buy ammo
KCRA News ^ | 04/23/2020 | DON THOMPSON

Posted on 04/23/2020 4:58:58 PM PDT by aimhigh

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 of 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: ammunition; banglist; california; dubyajudge; judiciary; politicaljudiciary; rogerbenitez; sdcalifornia
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To: Yogafist
kind of like when they allowed Californians to buy thirty round mags

Same Judge, too. Like the Standard Capacity Mags, this will also be overturned.

21 posted on 04/23/2020 5:17:41 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: aimhigh

Great news!


22 posted on 04/23/2020 5:17:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: aimhigh

But not on illegals?


23 posted on 04/23/2020 5:18:59 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: aimhigh
Color me amazed.

FMCDH(BITS)

24 posted on 04/23/2020 5:20:15 PM PDT by nothingnew
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To: aimhigh

The Great Lone Star Republic of California!

Magazine Ban was overturned by same judge...


25 posted on 04/23/2020 5:21:04 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Deo volente

He has an honest-looking face, not to mention scholarly.

Viva Judge Benitez! Viva Cuba Libre! Abajo Communismo!


26 posted on 04/23/2020 5:21:14 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: frank ballenger

Agreed...


27 posted on 04/23/2020 5:21:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: aimhigh

“Moreover, he ruled that the state’s ban on importing ammunition from outside California violates federal interstate commerce laws.”

Damned Straight!!!


28 posted on 04/23/2020 5:22:16 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: aimhigh

Thank Heaven for this honest judge. But the California “law” was so patently unconstitutional it never should have been Considered, more or less enacted. These pretty dictator- wannabes need to pay a price for proposing such obviously anti- American infringements on our liberties. Can they be sued or ?


29 posted on 04/23/2020 5:33:21 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they are excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Nothingburger

Judge Benitez was born in Havana in 1950. His family lost everything when Castro came to power, and his parents sent him to Miami to live with relatives when he was ten. Later his mother was able to come to America. He received his college and legal education in southern California.

He understands America and the freedoms we cherish here, as well as the dangers of Communism and the other totalitarian “isms”.


30 posted on 04/23/2020 5:35:52 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: aimhigh

Excellent!


31 posted on 04/23/2020 5:40:40 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: Yogafist
kind of like when they allowed Californians to buy thirty round mags, you guys better get your ammo before it is all sent to California.

There is no ammo to get. It's all sold out already due to the current situation.

32 posted on 04/23/2020 5:42:59 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

No, he narrowed the gap, but it isn’t flipped.


33 posted on 04/23/2020 5:45:50 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: AlaskaErik

“There is no ammo to get. It’s all sold out already due to the current situation.”

We didn’t have this problem until recently, but times like these are why we stocked up earlier, right?

Kind of like how I now really like my wife’s thing about buying paper towels and TP in about 6 months supply at a time.


34 posted on 04/23/2020 5:47:54 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: aimhigh

35 posted on 04/23/2020 6:01:08 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: AlaskaErik
For fellow Californians, checkout ,, and others. There's still some ammo in stock. Prices are higher than prior to the CCP virus pandemic. May the CCP find themselves in interesting times (old Chinese curse).
36 posted on 04/23/2020 6:02:23 PM PDT by tony549 (Stuck in SoCal)
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To: tony549

SGAmmo.com, luckygunner.com, midwayusa.com, etc. (dropped out from my post)


37 posted on 04/23/2020 6:03:54 PM PDT by tony549 (Stuck in SoCal)
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To: aimhigh

You can never have enough ammo when you life may depend on it. I’m serious.


38 posted on 04/23/2020 6:04:49 PM PDT by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
The 9th circuit has been flipped by Trump last I heard.
39 posted on 04/23/2020 6:05:58 PM PDT by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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To: Bullish

No. The Ninth has 9 Klintoon judges, 7 Obama judges, 3 W Judges, and 10 Trump judges.

So it’s 16-13 RAT. Better than before, but not flipped yet.


40 posted on 04/23/2020 6:14:42 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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