Why the Duncan v. Becerra Defeat is Far More Important Than Just Magazines

As TTAG has reported, a Ninth Circuit three-judge panel has upheld Southern District of California Judge Roger T. Benitez’s ruling towards California’s ban on customary capability magazines. Obviously, that could be a crucial growth. But the panel didn’t merely uphold that; the panel upheld Benitez’s place that potential Second Amendment infringements should face strict scrutiny.

Proceeding to prong two of the inquiry, the panel held that strict scrutiny was the suitable customary to use.

Nearly each violence-enabling victim-disarmament gun management legislation on the books has stood as a result of courts nearly invariably apply intermediate scrutiny, a made-up take a look at that permits the Constitution to be violated if the federal government claims some equally imaginary “interest” served by persevering with to screw the individuals.

If this stands, will probably be the precedent for dismantling gun management in California and the complete Ninth Circuit. Few of the state’s restrictions on the correct to maintain and bear arms might stand up to a strict scrutiny take a look at. I’m astonished {that a} panel of the Ninth dominated this manner, so explicitly. Elections really do have consequences.

I’m positive California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has already filed for en banc evaluate, what place I’m even much less sure that the oddball notion that the Constitution means what it says, and that rights have to be protected, will stand. But hope springs everlasting.