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.

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    The most effective part of our gun laws is preventing violent offenders from obtaining a license (and maybe having a license to start with, I guess).

    Beyond that, almost every other part of our laws are a ridiculous dog and pony show meant to appease some group or other in some way that’s usually completely ineffective.

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      Exactly, it’s very hard to respect the anti gun crowd when they focus on banning things that don’t even matter beyond comfort or aesthetics. It’s just all feel good bs that does nothing but hinder the average joe

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        Do you know why it’s hard to respect the pro-gun crowd?

        Because when a legal gun owner in Ulvade used a legally purchased gun to mutilate a room full of children beyond recognition and the entire world asked “What can we change to stop this from happening?”, do you know what their pro-gun community replied?

        “I don’t know, maybe something to do with doors or mental health. All I know is that the gun laws in Texas are brilliant, if not too strict. There is nothing I would have changed and selling guns to someone with a history of rape threats and animal abuse is exactly what the founding fathers wanted”.

        But yeah sorry we don’t know the intricacies of your little trinkets.

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          But yeah sorry we don’t know the intricacies of your little trinkets.

          If you actually cared as much as you act like you do, you would educate yourself about these “little trinkets”.

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            Exactly. They act like they know everything and ignore when you try to educate them. Banning any feature of a gun isn’t going to matter, nothing short of a full on ban is going to put a dent in shootings and that’s just not going to happen without civil war.

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        it’s very hard to respect the anti-gun crowd? because they focus on banning things that don’t matter?

        like focusing on red flag laws so nutbags don’t buy rifles, abusive fucks don’t keep their handguns? yeah none of that matters. you fuckwit.

        it’s impossible to have any respect for the pro-dead-children crowd. you cretins deserve so much worse.

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          like focusing on red flag laws so nutbags don’t buy rifles, abusive fucks don’t keep their handguns? yeah none of that matters. you fuckwit.

          They want due process to have their personal property taken from them? Man. That’s just crazy!

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            How do you write something like this without realising what a cunt you sound?

            This person is talking about deeply mentally ill people and literal wife beaters losing their guns and your response is to not only oppose that, but to oppose it on the ground of "But they paid for them! You can’t just take away things someone paid for! ".

            Oh sorry that’s not fair, you vomited up the words “due process”, like that’s something the pro-gun community believes in as the openly fantasise about executing people on the spot for property crimes and not just something other people built that you think you can spit back in their face.

            Red flag laws are due process.

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              Oh come on. Literally nobody is pro firearms for domestic abusers, let’s get off that straw man.

              The justice system in this country is, and always has been, built on the premise that someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

              This isn’t merely important for guns. It’s important for every aspect of criminal justice.

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            mass murder after mass murder after mass murder and you’re just fine with things how they are.

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            If someone has a nuclear warhead in their personal possession, I want the government to take it from them as well.

            Nobody needs a gun, and if you do to feel safe you must accept you live in a shithole country.

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      What particular laws have been “completely ineffective”? How are you measuring that efficiency, if not by comparing to countries without them?

      We get it, gun owners get salty because they’re not allowed all the toys they want. Their natural state is “tantrum” from America to Canada to Australia to the UK.

      But that’s too bad for them. While they may decided that increased risk of people being murdered is fine because they don’t think it will be their family, those countries have decided that their hurt feelings aren’t as important as other people’s lives.

      And oh look, they’re way better places to send you kids to school or walk around at night. Who’d have fucking known?