“The California AG’s classification of forced reset triggers (FRT) as illegal ‘multiburst trigger activators’ expands the law’s intent and is typical of the state’s approach to interpreting all gun laws as broadly as possible to criminalize gun ownership.”
While claiming that a magazine that holds over ten rounds is not an arm, the majority asserts that a magazine that holds ten or less is an arm because it “is necessary to the ordinary operation” of the firearm “as intended.”
VanDyke is in a unique position here. As a judge rather than a party to the case, he can do pretty much whatever he wants. And he’s using that power to say the majority is using the rule against judges bringing outside facts to cover up their real goal.
If Duncan were to be denied cert, that would mean the terrible Ninth Circuit ruling would go into effect. Thousands of Californians would have to give up millions of their Freedom Week magazines. Inevitably, many of them would refuse.
What’s highly unusual, however, is the extent to which dissenting Judge Lawrence VanDyke went to illustrate the fallacies adopted by the majority in justifying their opinion.
If I’m out with my toddler and a lunatic comes at us with a knife, I shouldn’t have to waste time (while under an adrenaline rush) calculating whether I have a chance to escape before shooting to defend my little girl and myself.
“Gun safety” advocates have praised the bill as a way to prevent armed extremism and vigilante violence.
If it’s “racist” to require voter ID, what do you call a CCW process that requires a police interview, training course, fingerprinting, sometimes a psych exam, as much as two years wait time, and costs up to $2,000?
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says California’s new law requiring firearms dealers to provide
Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, said San Jose’s public notice regarding its gun policy change is more akin to a marketing scheme given state regulations already call for these policies.
