Roger Benitez, the judge who overthrew California's assault weapons ban, baked a 30-day wait into his opinion for subsequent challenges -- a tidbit of wisdom in a remarkably knuckleheaded ruling.
“Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle, is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment," Benitez, a Dubya appointee, wrote. "Good for both home and battle."
The US of A actually pays this guy. Rightly taking umbrage at this description of a weapon designed to kill as many people as possible as fast as possible, and used for that very purpose in multiple mass shootings of civilians, California's attorney general got the ruling reconsidered and overturned by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in just 18 days. There were lives to save.
There once was a federal ban on assault rifles, but it was in effect for just ten years before Republicans let it lapse in 2004. President Biden helped pass the ban. "It brought down these mass killings," he said. "We should do it again."
The case will doubtless continue moving up the legal ladder. Let's hope the ban stays in place -- and doesn't wind up in the laps of an unpredictable and conservative Supreme Court.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-assault-weapons-ban-ruling_n_60d2120ae4b006d4620ddd0b?fbclid=IwAR21zFiaQm9q-JFFp6yKPvDetVi-WqMsJ8EOpmWqsojNxUenFFbG_8FNXkg
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