Looks like we will have the right to protect ourselves a little while longer in California. The pro-criminal Democrat legislature passed a bill saying if you want to buy ammunition, you have to pass a background check.
“The law implementing the ammunition background checks came from Senate Bill 1235, which usurped a permit-to-purchase scenario passed by California voters in 2016. The court challenge was directed toward SB 1235 and its chief enforcer, California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Benitez weighed the background check requirement in light of the Supreme Court’s Bruen (2023) decision and found it unconstitutional.
He wrote, “The ammunition background checks laws have no historical pedigree and operate in such a way that they violate the Second Amendment right of citizens to keep and bear arms.”
Plaintiffs also targeted California’s law against purchasing ammunition in other states and bringing it back to California. Benitez also decided in plaintiff’s favor concerning the anti-importation law.
Yup, if you bought ammunition during a trip to Arizona, you first had to pass a background check in California.
Federal Judge: California Ammunition Background Checks Violate Constitution
AWR HAWKINS, Breitbart, 1/31/24 https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/31/federal-judge-california-ammunition-background-checks-violate-constitution/
United States District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez issued a decision Tuesday blocking enforcement of California’s background check requirement for ammunition purchases.
California law requires that would-be ammunition purchasers submit to a background check like the check one undergoes to purchase a firearm.
The law implementing the ammunition background checks came from Senate Bill 1235, which usurped a permit-to-purchase scenario passed by California voters in 2016. The court challenge was directed toward SB 1235 and its chief enforcer, California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Benitez weighed the background check requirement in light of the Supreme Court’s Bruen (2023) decision and found it unconstitutional.
He wrote, “The ammunition background checks laws have no historical pedigree and operate in such a way that they violate the Second Amendment right of citizens to keep and bear arms.”
Plaintiffs also targeted California’s law against purchasing ammunition in other states and bringing it back to California. Benitez also decided in plaintiff’s favor concerning the anti-importation law.
Benitez subsequently barred AG Bonta and any of his agents from enforcing the ammunition background check requirement or the anti-importation law.
The case is Rhodes v. Bonta 18-cv-802 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
