Feb. 27, 2023
Gun rights groups seize on advantage in fight with California
In a brief arguing that the state’s ban on large capacity magazines is unconstitutional, Anna M. Barvir — an attorney with Michel & Associates PC who represents gun rights groups — wrote that the state could not identify a single law that was analogous. “Not one 19th century or earlier law, not even an outlier, involved a restriction on the capacity of a firearm,” Barvir wrote.
Gun rights groups have seized on what they believe is a big advantage they now have in judicial evaluations of California ammunition laws: last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bruen, which emphasizes the history and tradition of firearms regulations.
The state attorney general’s office filed briefs last week as well with Senior U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez of San Diego even as its main audience is probably not Benitez, who ha...
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