Government,
Civil Rights
Mar. 1, 2023
Ubiquity of AR-15 in America complicates ruling on gun case
“The standard has always been whether the prohibited arms are in common use,” wrote George Lee, who represents gun rights groups.
As in other ongoing legal battles over whether California firearms laws are constitutional, plaintiffs and the state attorney general's office are talking past each other -- in this case about whether the Assault Weapons Control Act should stand.
The law, passed in 1989 and amended in 2000 to ban the ownership and transfer of more than 50 types of guns classified as assault weapons, is one of several California statutes being evaluated unde...
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