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The ongoing battle over gun control is coming to a fever pitch in California as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals convened on Tuesday to hear arguments about the state's ban of high-capacity magazines that hold more than 10 bullets.
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A larger panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals convened Tuesday to reconsider the constitutionality of a California law prohibiting residents from owning gun magazines that hold more than 10 bullets a case that is likely to have sweeping impact on other pending challenges to the state’s broader effort to regulate firearms, including assault weapons.
The lawsuit, filed in San Diego federal court by the California Rifle & Pistol Association and several gun owners, argues that a 2016 state law banning possession of so-called large-capacity magazines violates the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms in self-defense.
Such magazines have long been illegal to purchase, manufacture or sell in the state, and the new law went a step further by ordering residents already in possession of the devices to either get rid of them or physically alter them to accept 10 or fewer rounds.
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Now that the Supreme Court has taken a case dealing with the right to keep and bear arms, we’re in for a little bit of a lull, since the Court won’t actually hear oral arguments in
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett until the fall. Behind the scenes, though, there’s still a lot going on, including the drafting of amicus briefs on both sides of the issue that will flesh out the arguments in favor and in opposition to New York’s “may issue” licensing regime for those wanting to carry a firearm for self-defense in public.