A federal judge has struck down a California law banning gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. U.S.

California cannot ban gun owners from having detachable magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, a federal judge ruled Friday.

The decision from U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez won’t take effect immediately. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, has already filed a notice to appeal the ruling. The ban is likely to remain in effect while the case is still pending.

This is the second time Benitez has struck down California’s law banning certain types of magazines. The first time he struck it down — way back in 2017 — an appeals court ended up reversing his decision.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        52·
        3 years ago

        Well, better than a knife that makes you get close to an armed attacker, and they don’t make holsters for baseball bats, tasers are 60% effective and that’s the ones the police can get that we can’t, and mace is for non-deadly threats, so you should have that too, but time and place

      • bobman@unilem.org
        88·
        3 years ago

        Well, if you can’t fight then a gun is your best option.

        Can you fight?

        Didn’t think so.

    • Coach@lemmy.worldEnglish
      57·
      3 years ago

      Who’s gonna shoot you if mini-missles cost a grand? Defend yourself with something else.

        • Coach@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          3 years ago

          And those people get arrested. What aren’t we understanding here? Selling weapons of war should be easier than smokes or booze? What kind of logic is that?

              • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                1·
                3 years ago

                Because you’re likely using it as a tactic to make them sound scary, and you likely don’t know what you’re talking about. Do you mean the Colt 1911 or m1 garand that were a gun of choice for the first and second world war, or the AR-15 that has been taken to no wars ever by anyone anywhere?

    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
      46·
      3 years ago

      Well… I’m not seeing a ton of these mass shootings committed by the ultra wealthy, where are you seeing that?

    • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
      49·
      3 years ago

      Only rich people should be allowed to shoot up malls and schools. If you only use them in self defense, bullets are worth a grand each. This is an plutocracy, and such delights of mass murder should not belong to the common man.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        31·
        3 years ago

        So if I don’t have $10,000 I can’t have a full mag with which to defend myself? $15,000 for one standard capacity at that?

        Yeah, “only rich people can defend themselves, you poors don’t deserve to live anyway.”

          • nxdefiant@startrek.website
            3·
            3 years ago

            the really shitty part is regulating suppressors. I wonder how cheap they’d actually be nowadays if it weren’t for the NFA.

            • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.socialEnglish
              4·
              3 years ago

              There’s certainly an argument to be made that we’d be seeing much more innovation and availability if not for the sheer SOT sandbagging.

              It continues to blow my mind that basic hearing protection is somehow restricted especially when the countries the restrict/ban crowd loves comparing the US to generally consider suppressors to be essential equipment because of the sound reduction.

      • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
        114·
        3 years ago

        Toys? This is the mentality that makes reform difficult. You are part of the problem, not the solution.

        There are those of us who use these tools exactly as they are meant to and really get annoyed at both the “AR at the grocery store” crowd and the “Thousand dollar bullets will show them” crowd.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        95·
        3 years ago

        Right so only rich people, got it. Gotta spend money to prove your life is worth protecting after all, if you have no money you might as well go ahead and be victimized and die, good riddance!