Ninth Circuit Stays Injunction Blocking California’s Unconstitutional ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban

Last month, District Court Judge Roger Benitez once again ruled in Duncan v. Bonta that California’s “high capacity” magazine ban is unconstitutional. The first time, he made that judgement under Heller. This time, the ruling also took into account Bruen. He issued an injunction blocking enforcement of the law, but stayed it giving the state … Read more

Ninth Circuit Puts its Finger on the Scale to Delay, Derail California Magazine Ban Challenge

By LKB As a federal trial attorney with appellate experience, including clerking for a United States Court of Appeals judge decades ago, I tend to discount a lot of the “conspiracy theories” non-lawyers often postulate about how courts work and operate in Second Amendment cases.   Certainly, there are plenty of judges who decide cases … Read more