Court stays ruling on California’s ban on high-capacity magazines
- California first passed the law in 2000 and updated it in 2016
- The new decision stays a previous decision overturning the law
- Gun rights groups vow to take it all the way to the Supreme Court
GREELEY, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 12: AR-15 rifles and other weapons are displayed on a table at a shooting range during the “Rod of Iron Freedom Festival” on October 12, 2019 in Greeley, Pennsylvania. The two-day event, which is organized by Kahr Arms/Tommy Gun Warehouse and Rod of Iron Ministries, has billed itself as a “second amendment rally and celebration of freedom, faith and family.” Numerous speakers, vendors and displays celebrated guns and gun culture in America. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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(NewsNation) — The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed a win to California’s state government during a ruling this week that issued a stay on a previous ruling by a federal judge that blocked the implementation of the state’s ban on high-capacity magazines.
The liberal majority on the court wrote that “public interest tips in the favor of a stay” because “mass shootings nearly always involve large-capacity magazines.”
But the court’s more conservative judges dissented from that ruling, arguing that it was part of a group of decisions that offered a “blank check for governments to restrict firearms in any way they pleased.”
One of the plaintiffs in the case, California Rifle & Prison Association President Chuck Michel, expressed his disappointment with the court decision. But he said that the group “will continue to defend the rights of gun owners in California all the way to the Supreme Court.”
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, on the other hand, said that his office was “relieved that the court considered the public safety of Californians in its decision.”
