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U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California said that sections of the state ban in place since 1989 regarding military-style rifles violate the Second Amendment. Benitez characterized the assault weapons Californians are barred from using as not “bazookas, howitzers or machine guns” but rather “fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles.”
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While it’s still unclear how the case could play out in appeal, if Benitez’s ruling did indeed make it to the U.S. Supreme Court, [Darrell A.H. Miller, a law professor and co-director of Duke University’s Center for Firearms Law] said there is “far more of an appetite” for the high court to take on Second Amendment cases.
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Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was killed in the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., denounced the judge for using “the exact language of the gun lobby” in his ruling. A version of the AR-15 was used to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.