Do you want to see a pro-gun appellate judge out of the 9th Circuit outright WRECK his anti-gun colleagues on a California magazine ban case? ME TOO! LET’S DO THIS!!!!
The infamous 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, based out of California, has once again vomited forth a giant flume of word salad to justify the state’s unconstitutional ban on standard capacity magazines—meaning, anything holding more than ten rounds.
That’s no surprise-this case, Duncan v. Bonta, has been up and down between the federal district court and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals maybe four or five times.
More than once the trial district court has held the magazine ban to be unconstitutional and that’s even been confirmed on appeal by a three-judge 9th Circuit appellate court.
But the large majority of liberal judges on the 9th Circuit can’t allow that to stand, so they unlawfully demanded to hear the case yet again en banc—with a much larger group of judges than the normal three-judge panel.
And today that en banc panel spewed forth the nonsensical answer we all expected—they magically found the ban on standard capacity magazines to be constitutional under the Second Amendment and Bruen.
The bright sport in all this is that one of the Judges, Judge Lawrence James Christopher VanDyke, not only wrote a scathing dissent—he also recorded a video in his chambers demonstrating various features of actual guns in his very own hands, to beat the ridiculous majority opinion like it was a dead mule.
Join me as we watch Judge VanDyke’s video together, and then I read through Judge Van Dyke’s excellent written dissent, as well.