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Judge overturns California’s 30-year assault rifle ban as ‘failed experiment’ We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Don Thompson Normal text size Advertisement Sacramento: A federal judge has overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. US District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled that the state’s definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawf...

The spin from AG Gurbir Grewal's office about the state's magazine ban doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

Judge Roger Benitez ruled the states definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives citizens of weapons commonly allowed elsewhere.

U.S. District Court Judge rules California's ban on so-called 'Assault Weapons', the most popular guns in America is Unconstitutional.

SHARE A federal judge on Friday overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. US District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled that the state’s definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives law-abiding Californians of weapons commonly allowed in most other states and by the US Supreme Court. “Under no level of heightened scrutiny can the law survive,” Mr Benitez said. He issued a perman...

Read more about US judge overturns Californias three-decade ban on assault weapons on Business Standard. A federal judge Friday overturned Californias three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arm

“This case is not about extraordinary weapons lying at the outer limits of Second Amendment protection. The banned ‘assault weapons’ are not bazookas, howitzers, or machine guns. Those arms are dangerous and solely useful for military purposes," his ruling said. Despite Californias ban, there currently are an estimated 185,569 assault weapons registered with the state, the judge said. “This is an average case about average guns used in average ways for average purposes," the...

Boulder, Colo., banned assault weapons in hopes of preventing a mass shooting, but a judge blocked it after a lawsuit backed by the NRA. “Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle,” the judge said in his ruling’s introduction. That comparison “completely undermines the credibility of this decision and is a slap in the face to the families who’ve lost loved ones to thi...

California's "assault weapons" ban was ruled unconstitutional Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California, who warmly praised the AR-15 in his ruling, said the state's longtime ban on such firearms was unconstitutional.