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"A federal judge has blocked California’s ammunition background check program, which had prevented nearly one in five law-abiding gun owners from purchasing ammunition because of database glitches and other record-keeping problems.
In a 120-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez said the state’s program has been used to “systematically prohibit or deter an untold number of law-abiding California citizen-residents from undergoing the required background checks.”
“The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,” Benitez, of the Southern District of California in San Diego, wrote in an opinion posted Wednesday.
Benitez’s injunction deals a blow to one of the nation’s first attempts at requiring background checks for ammunition buyers, which gun-control advocates widely support. Benitez was the same judge who blocked California’s ban on high-capacity magazines a year ago.
Under legislation signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2016, Californians buying ammunition after July were required to pass the in-store background check. In addition, California voters also approved Proposition 63 in 2016, which included a separate ammunition measure, championed by then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom."
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article242248616.html
"A federal judge has blocked California’s ammunition background check program, which had prevented nearly one in five law-abiding gun owners from purchasing ammunition because of database glitches and other record-keeping problems.
In a 120-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez said the state’s program has been used to “systematically prohibit or deter an untold number of law-abiding California citizen-residents from undergoing the required background checks.”
“The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,” Benitez, of the Southern District of California in San Diego, wrote in an opinion posted Wednesday.
Benitez’s injunction deals a blow to one of the nation’s first attempts at requiring background checks for ammunition buyers, which gun-control advocates widely support. Benitez was the same judge who blocked California’s ban on high-capacity magazines a year ago.
Under legislation signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2016, Californians buying ammunition after July were required to pass the in-store background check. In addition, California voters also approved Proposition 63 in 2016, which included a separate ammunition measure, championed by then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom."
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article242248616.html