ICYMI: Court Strikes Down California's Ammunition Background Check Requirement reason.com/2020/04/27/cou… via @reason
U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez has issued a preliminary injunction overturning California's ammunition sales laws.
Those rules required all ammo sales to be conducted face-to-face with a licensed dealer, and they also forced all ammo buyers to undergo computerized background check through the California Department of Justice.
California's ammo laws are constitutionally defective, the judge ruled:
“First, criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don't do background checks.
“First, criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don't do background checks.
The background check experiment defies common sense while unduly and severely burdening the Second Amendment rights of every responsible, gun-owning citizen desiring to lawfully buy ammunition.
Second, the implementing regulations systematically prohibit or deter an untold number of law-abiding California citizen-residents from undergoing the required background checks.
Third, in the seven months since implementation, the standard background check rejected citizen-residents who are not prohibited persons approximately 16.4% of the time.
Fourth, the ammunition anti-importation laws directly violate the federal dormant Commerce Clause.”
