California cannot ban gun owners from having detachable magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, a federal judge ruled Friday.

The decision from U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez won’t take effect immediately. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, has already filed a notice to appeal the ruling. The ban is likely to remain in effect while the case is still pending.

This is the second time Benitez has struck down California’s law banning certain types of magazines. The first time he struck it down — way back in 2017 — an appeals court ended up reversing his decision.

    • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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      No, as knee-jerk reactions to a single facet of an outlier event are absurd.

      As an comparison, your highlight of child porn is due to the actual harm of actual abuse - the thing is banned because it cannot exist without traumatizing and abusing children. Your highlight of an outlier shooting is really the highlight of the potential harm of a future event - the thing might maybe be used for harm.

      Most of us don’t live our lives in terror of inanimate objects or overrepresented and oversensationalized events.

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        Most of us don’t live our lives in terror of inanimate objects or overrepresented and oversensationalized events.

        If you say so.