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AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File There’s an old saying about how there’s nothing so permanent as a temporary government program. I’m not sure I agree with that. After all, laws that violate the Second Amendment don’t really seem to go much of anywhere, either.
Oh, it happens at the state level, but when you consider the mindboggling number of gun laws in this country, there really aren’t many that seem to go away.
At the federal level, even suggesting the repeal of a gun control law is treated as heresy, even by some who consider themselves pro-gun.
Luckily, there’s an option. While legislatures don’t want to remove gun control laws that are on the books, there’s another branch of the government that is willing to do so . The trio of cases are part of a wide-ranging legal campaign by gun ownership advocates who have headed to the federal courts over the past several years with constitutional challenges that target state gun regulations from a variety of angles. Emboldened by a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said the Second Amendment allowed an individual right to possess firearms for self-defense and other purposes, and a federal court that since 2016 has been seeded with a new batch of judges who generally favor an expansive reading of gun rights, the lawsuits seek to lock in broader gun-ownership rights. With some of the strictest gun-control laws in the country, California has become a focus of these legal battles. And while lawsuits have been filed in each of the state’s four federal court districts, San Diego has become a major front in the legal battle. Targeting state laws
No fewer than six lawsuits taking on everything from assault-style weapons to the number of guns that can be purchased in a single 30-day period have been filed in San Diego federal court. The plaintiffs include individuals, many of them members of the San Diego County Gun Owners group, as well as leading advocacy groups such as the Second Amendment Foundation and the Firearms Policy Coalition. In addition to the three cases Benitez has already ruled on, three […]
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