Posted on 03/20/2023 5:21:09 PM PDT by CFW
California’s requirement that all handguns sold in the state come with chamber load indicators, magazine disconnect mechanisms, and microstamping features are likely unconstitutional according to U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, who granted an injunction on Monday in Boland v. Bonta; a case brought by the California Rifle & Pistol Association and several individual gun owners taking on the constitutionality of several aspects of California’s Unsafe Handgun Act.
In his ruling, Carney pointed out that California’s requirements have a “devastating impact” on Californians’ ability to acquire “new, state-of-the-art” handguns; noting that no new models of handguns have been made available for sale in the state for the past ten years thanks to the microstamping requirement. The judge went on to declare that the challenged provisions of the UHA are “not consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation” and excoriated the state for preventing residents from accessing commonly owned firearms available in almost every other jurisdiction across the country.
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The state has 14 days to appeal. We shall see.
I’m no Constitutional scholar but I’d wager that many,if not most (and perhaps even all) state laws connected to 2nd Amendment rights are unconstitutional. Among my favorite court rulings lending credence to my belief are the Bruen decision,in which several guilty states were mentioned and “Caetano v Massachusetts” in which SCOTUS ruled,9-0,that the Massachusetts state Supreme Court had blatantly violated Caetano’s 2nd Amendment rights.
Just the concept of micro-stamping cartridge cases proves that the advocates are complete morons who are incapable of critical thinking and have no common sense.
“I’m no Constitutional scholar but I’d wager that many,if not most (and perhaps even all) state laws connected to 2nd Amendment rights are unconstitutional. “
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Agreed. At some point a few decades ago, conservatives became complacent and ignored the 2nd Amendment violations that were being passed in states as “laws of the land”. I think people were thinking, “well, the 2nd is so obvious, they really can’t go any further”. But they did. They took away our rights incrementally and our GOP leaders were complicit. The NRA agreed with the violations for too long. Finally, the people and other more recently founded gun rights groups started to fight back. All laws violating the 2nd Amendment need to be over-turned or repealed.
I like those CLIs, what do you guys think?
I don’t like anyone mandating anything.... don’t get me wrong.
Its not that they’re morons. The whole point was to require something they knew could not be met. By anyone. Ever.
So that they could enact a slow motion ban on all handguns.
Whenever anybody changed so much as the placement of a screw in any old handgun design, the entire gun was then counted as a “new” design and was subject to their impossible to meet requirements......ie banned.
Or they are clever liars knowingly imposing impossible technical requirements that will function effectively as a gun ban. I think the latter is more likely.
CA should have a consent decree requiring any proposed gun legislation to have preclearance by the Federal courts, just like the redistricting requirement imposed on Southern states.
Recall the CO legislator (female) who said that when the 30 round mags were empty people would have to throw them away? So eventually there would be no more mags in CO.
She thought that all mags were one time use.
I'd love to see SCOTUS accept a case related to background checks,magazine capacities,"safety" issues,storage issues and other issues and come down hard...as they have several times in recent years.
The judge Cormac Carney tends to lean left in his rulings so the ruling is a bit of a surprise.
He was also a good wide receiver for UCLA years ago.
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How do you put a CLI on a revolver?
In California, expect the Left to appeal this all the way.
If this were against Conservative legislation, Republicans
would let it drop like a hot potato.
“In California, expect the Left to appeal this all the way.
If this were against Conservative legislation, Republicans
would let it drop like a hot potato.”
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Of course California will appeal. And, you are right, the GOP would just shrug their shoulders and say “Well, we tried”, and then forget it. The GOP has done more to give away our gun rights than they have to protect them over the past 60 years.
This is an issue that I thought Trump showed his true colors
on. He appealed everything against his goals, and won.
In his heart, he means what he says, and we need that very
badly.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney was appointed to the bench in 2003 by George Bush. Judges that rule according to the Constitution are few and far between, but almost all of them were appointed by GOP Presidents. So, at least they have done that little bit.
It is disheartening to see GOP Senators rubber-stamp the judge nominations made by Biden’s handlers. (Lindsey Graham is a traitor to the Constitution). Those life-time appointments will do great harm to our nation over the next few decades. Thankfully, and this is the only thing we can credit McConnell with, during Trump’s four years, many young conservatives were appointed to the bench that can hopefully offset some of the horrible appointments by Biden.
This is an issue that I thought Trump showed his true colors
on. He appealed everything against his goals, and won.
In his heart, he means what he says, and we need that very
badly.
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Which is one reason the GOPe party disliked him so much. They prefer to lose “gracefully” and always “take the high road”. They preferred the easy money by getting it from the rich donor class rather than from the support of the people. Trump made them look bad because he showed that things COULD be done and promises COULD be kept. Therefore, he had to go.
Oh, good point. I don’t have any of those.
I guess in that situation the perp just gotta get the right angle to look down the barrel XD XD
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