Los Angeles – A Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that California’s law prohibits weapons magazines that have more than 10 rounds of ammunition can remain in place, a decision that led a judge to register an unusual video that shows him by carrying weapons in his cameras.
The 9th Court of Appeals of the United States Circuit ruled 7-4 that the law was allowed under the second amendment because large-capacity magazines are not considered “weapons” or “protected accessories.”
Even if they were, the prohibition of California “is within the tradition of the nation to protect innocent people by prohibiting the useful uses of weapons and regulating the necessary components for the shot of a firearm,” said opinion.
Judge Lawrence Vandyke did not agree and included a link to a self -published video in YouTube In his dissent.
“This is the first video like this I have done,” Vandyke said. “I share this because a rudimentary understanding of how they are made, use, use, use and modify the weapons that become obvious why the California proposal test and the one that my colleagues are adopting today simply does not work.”
In the video, Vandyke drives several weapons in their cameras and demonstrates how they are loaded and dismissed. It also shows high capacity magazines and argues that they are not different from other weapons accessories that could be added to a firearm to make it more dangerous. According to the logic of the majority, he said, that would allow the government to choose and choose to prohibit.
Judge Marsha S. Berzon criticized Vandyke’s video in a separate opinion, saying that he was including “made outside the record” and, in essence, was designated as an expert witness in the case.
The law has It remained in effect As the State appealed a 2023 decision for a District Court Judge in San Diego that was unconstitutional. The ruling was in response to legal actions presented by four individuals and the California rifle AND Pistol association challenging the constitutionality of the law under the second amendment.
The majority opinion judges said that their decision to defend the law is in line with a Supreme Court. Decision in 2022 That established a new standard that is based more on the historical tradition of arms regulation instead of public interests, including security.
California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, praised the decision of the Court of Appeals.
“This restriction of common sense in how many rounds an armed man can shoot before he must stop to recharge has been identified as a critical intervention to limit the ability of a lonely shooter to turn the shootings into attacks of mass victims,” Bonta said in a statement. “Let me be clear, this law saves lives.”
