Constitutional Law,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Aug. 27, 2020
A magazine masquerade
Consider this. If the state of California, among the strictest jurisdictions in the nation, already requires safety testing (of guns and people) and background checks for firearms and ammunition, what is the point of banning magazines over an arbitrary limit?
Donald E.J. Kilmer Jr.
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Don is a civil rights litigator, law professor, and co-editor of a law school casebook on Firearms Law and the Second Amendment.
The firearm magazine controversy resolved (or now) by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Duncan v. Becerra, 2020 DJDAR 8764 (Aug. 14, 2020), is a tempest in a teapot. It's a masquerade for a deeper controversy. Consider this. If the state of California, among the strictest jurisdictions in the nation, already requires safety testing (of guns and people) and backgro...
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