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The Supreme Court declined to hear challenges to Maryland's assault weapons ban and Rhode Island's magazine restriction, leaving these laws in effect, while indicating that the issue of assault weapons may be revisited soon due to ongoing legal debates and a conservative majority interested in clarifying the scope of gun rights under the Second Amendment.
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a lower court's ruling that would have allowed gun owners in California to have detachable magazines holding more than 10 rounds. The ban on high-capacity magazines remains in effect while the case is pending. The court granted the state attorney general's motion for a stay, stating that the defense of the law is likely to succeed. This ruling comes after a September decision by a lower court that struck down the ban, which was challenged by individuals and the California Rifle & Pistol Association. The case will be heard again in light of new standards set by the U.S. Supreme Court, which rely more on the historical tradition of gun regulation.
A federal judge has overturned California's ban on high-capacity gun magazines, ruling it as unconstitutional. The ban, adopted in 2016, was deemed "arbitrary and capricious" by US District Judge Roger T. Benitez. The judge argued that there is no historical tradition of regulating firearms based on firing or ammunition capacity and that the ban infringes on the Second Amendment. California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized the decision, while the California Rifle & Pistol Association praised it. The state's Attorney General has filed an appeal, and the injunction on the ban will be stayed for 10 days.
A federal judge in California has ruled that the state's ban on high-capacity gun magazines, which hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, is unconstitutional and violates the Second Amendment rights of firearms owners. The judge stated that the ban went too far in preventing people from using magazines for lawful purposes, including self-defense. California Attorney General plans to appeal the decision, arguing that the state needs to keep its residents safe from weapons enhancements designed for mass casualties. The judge has delayed enforcing the injunction against the law for 10 days to allow for a potential stay.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Mean Arms, a Georgia-based company, for selling a device that allowed the Buffalo killer to replace magazines in his AR-15 with ease. The device, called an MA lock, is marketed as locking a magazine onto a firearm, making it compliant with New York law. However, the lawsuit alleges that the lock can easily be removed, and even provides step-by-step instructions for doing so on the back of its product packaging. The use of high-capacity magazines allowed the killer to avoid reloading and may have helped him kill more people.
Victims and families of victims of the April 2021 mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility have filed a lawsuit against the gun distributor and magazine manufacturers of the weapon used in the attack that killed eight and injured five others. American Tactical, its president, its marketing director, and magazine manufacturer Schmeisser GmbH are all named in the suit, accused of negligence, public nuisance, and unlawful marketing. The suit also accuses the defendants of having high-capacity magazines that are "unreasonably dangerous" and "enable unlawful mass shootings" when sold to civilians.