California’s discriminatory justification for ammo laws “constitute a long, embarrassing, disgusting, insidious, reprehensible list of examples of government tyranny towards our own people.”
Earlier this week Judge Roger Benitez delivered a stinging rebuke to California’s ammunition registration laws (Rhode v Bonta) and issued a permanent injunction, thereby declaring the law invalid.
No doubt the sting hit both Governor Newsom and his Attorney General, Rob Bonta right between the eyes.
Their immediate response was to flex their supposed anti-gun muscles and promising to seek an emergency stay on the injunction, while spouting a bunch of bogus proclamations on how ammunition registration saves lives. Regardless of all the chest pounding, the bottom line is that California’s ammunition registration laws are null and void. Judge Benitez has already denied Bonta’s request for a stay on the injunction, and the Attorney General was forced into publishing a bulletin announcing that that:
- The DOJ background check system is not to be used.
- Purchases or transfers of legal ammunition need not be conducted through a licensed firearm dealer or ammunition vendor.
- Purchases or transfers of legal ammunition need not be completed in a face-to-face transaction.
We are quite certain that requiring his staff to draft such a notice likely made Bonta’s blood boil. Welcome to our world, Bonta.
By L.A. Paredes