Written by Amanda Angulo<\/p>\n
On Thursday, leaders of the state announced that an appeal has been filed against a San Diego federal judge\u2019s ruling which overturned California\u2019s ban on assault weapons, getting rid of over 30 years of a policy restraining the Second Amendment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, state leaders want to extend the 30-day period in which the ban stays, as issued by U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez. Their goal is to keep the ban throughout the appeals process in order to prevent the ban from being completely overturned. In response to the announcement, the Firearms Policy Coalitions stood their ground in a statement by saying they will \u201caggressively litigate this case on appeal and will take every action to defend the court\u2019s legally and historically correct decision up to and at the U.S. Supreme Court.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In Hon. Benitez\u2019s 94 paged ruling, he wrote about the uses for the AR-15 and how it is a perfect combination of home defense and homeland defense, \u201cthe AR-15 is the kind of versatile gun that lies at the intersection of the kinds of firearms protected under District of Columbia v. Heller and United States v. Miller.\u201d By referring to the <\/span>U.S. v. Miller<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>D.C. v. Heller<\/span><\/i> cases, Benitez had used precedent over whether the ban was unconstitutional. Ultimately, he proved that it was.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This is also not the first time that Benitez has blocked state laws relating to firearms and ammunition. Previously, the judge has ruled against a California ban on high-capacity magazines and the requirement of background checks for ammunition purchases, acting as an infringement on the Second Amendment right.<\/span><\/p>\n Yet, Democrats are attempting to get rid of our Second Amendment right by going through the courts in an attempt to appeal the decision made by Benitez. If they are successful, it could set the precedent that our Second Amendment rights are able to be stripped from us regardless of the type of gun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Amanda Angulo On Thursday, leaders of the state announced that an appeal has been filed against a San Diego federal judge\u2019s ruling which overturned California\u2019s ban on assault weapons, getting rid of over 30 years of a policy restraining the Second Amendment.\u00a0 However, state leaders want to extend the 30-day period in which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n