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News in Brief

The Second Amendment Foundation has submitted an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in a federal challenge of California’s ban on so-called “large-capacity magazines” in a case known as Duncan v. Bonta. [More]

I look at the last post and then I look at this and note how the the provokers smear us as the violent ones.

Related UPDATE

Twenty-five states file brief against California’s unconstitutional firearm magazine ban [More]

Tangentially Related UPDATE

SAF FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN PA GUN RIGHTS DENIAL CASE

That’s from Alan Gottlieb’s email. The post isn’t up yet, but when it is you can get the link from SAF’s “News” page.

Flight of the Nazgûl

Ninth Circuit issues partial stay in California large-capacity gun magazine case – The four dissenting judges railed against the majority decision, calling the Ninth Circuit’s attitude about the Second Amendment “laughably absurd.” [More]

Except this is no laughing matter.

The Ninth Circuit wrote the book on Second Amendment absurdity going back to their “no individual right” days when the late, dunderheaded Cynthia Holcomb Hall wrote:

Moreover, even if we determined that Hickman had standing to sue for violation of the Second Amendment, his suit would nevertheless fail because the Second Amendment is not incorporated into the Bill of Rights.

[Via Jess]

Judicial Skulduggery

So the Ninth Circuit has immediately declared they’re going to handle this case en banc without allowing a three judge panel to hear it first… [Watch]

The only real question: Will the Supreme Court let 9th Circuit Democrat apparatchiks get away with how they’ve signaled they intend to rule?

[Via Jess]

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