BELLEVUE, WA – -(Ammoland.com)- A three-judge panel for the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday struck down a California prohibition on sales of semiautomatic rifles to young adults in the 18-20-year-old range, remanding the case back to the district court for further proceedings in a win for the Second Amendment Foundation. The case is known as Jones v. Bonta.
SAF was joined in by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., Firearms Policy Foundation, Calguns Foundation, Poway Weapons, and Gear and PWG Range, North County Shooting Center, Inc, Beebe Family Arms and Munitions, and three private citizens including Matthew Jones for whom the case is named.
The majority opinion was written by Judge Ryan Nelson and joined by Judge Kenneth Lee, both Donald Trump appointees, and in part by Judge Sidney Stein from the Southern District of New York, a Bill Clinton appointee. Judge Stein also dissented in part.
Writing for the majority, Judge Nelson observed, “(T)he Second Amendment protects the right of young adults to keep and bear arms, which includes the right to purchase them. The district court reasoned otherwise and held that the laws did not burden Second Amendment rights at all: that was legal error…(T)he district court erred by applying intermediate scrutiny, rather than strict scrutiny, to the semiautomatic centerfire rifle ban. And even under intermediate scrutiny, this ban likely violates the Second Amendment because it fails the ‘reasonable fit’ test.”
“We are delighted with the opinion,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “The court majority rightly recognized that delaying the exercise of a right until age 21 does irreparable harm. It also applied strict scrutiny to the semi-auto ban.”
He noted this ruling could have an impact on another case challenging a similar prohibition in Washington State, which is also part of the Ninth Circuit. There, the prohibition was adopted via a citizen initiative in 2018, and was challenged by SAF and the National Rifle Association.
Jones v. Bonta
About the Second Amendment Foundation
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing, and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 750,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
at this time, negotiating rights away is too busy to take credit for the work of the Second Amendment Foundation.
Mmmmmmm… FEELS SO GOOOD Hearing this! 🙂
Case after case after case brought up before the courts, and resoundingly won, not by the NRA, which could be the 800 pound gorilla in RKBA matters but isn’t, but instead by SAF who most Americans have never heard of. And why is that?
THAT question, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, is the question I would like to hear Wayne LaPierre answer.
And if the EVP of what should be the premier RKBA advocate in the USA can’t deliver a satisfactory answer to that question, he should go if only for that reason and no other.
“THAT question, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, is the question I would like to hear Wayne LaPierre answer.”
I’d just like to hear him say ‘I resign’.
That and toss out all his associated toadies along with him.
the nra has never been pro rights, they have been pro our rights , that is why 2a foundation is more effective,it does not have the jim crow baggage. 1934 was to keep poor from having weapons to defend themselves the tax basically doubled price of machine gun
The NRA has been pro gun , they have never been pro gun rights, Money today is there driving force.
Way to go SAF and FPC! Cheering you on. Thanks for everything you do in support of our 2nd Amendment.
it is a shame that negotiating rights away ,does not have their focus in right place