Opinion
The Second Amendment Foundation and its colleagues in a ground-breaking First Amendment case defending the right of Junior Sports Magazine and others to publish Second Amendment-related material in California have filed a response brief to Attorney General Rob Bonta’s petition for an en banc rehearing in the case of Junior Sports Magazines v. Bonta.
California already lost unanimously on appeal before a three-judge panel.
SAF was joined by Junior Sports Magazines, Inc., the California Youth Shooting Sports Association, Redlands California Youth Clay Shooting Sports, California Rifle & Pistol Association, the CRPA Foundation, Gun Owners of California, and Raymond Brown. They are represented by attorneys Anna M. Barvir and C. D. Michel of Long Beach, Calif., and Donald Kilmer of Caldwell, Idaho.
“This is yet another example of California’s stubborn reluctance to allow anything relating to firearms and their positive use, including a magazine devoted to safe use of firearms by young people for hunting or competition,” noted SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “This is clearly a First Amendment case in which the state is trying to suppress free speech and freedom of the press, because the material includes advertising from firearms manufacturers.”
In their brief, SAF and its partners contend the en banc request should be denied.
“The three-judge panel’s decision was well-reasoned and consistent with First Amendment precedents in the Ninth Circuit and at the Supreme Court,” noted SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. “However, the petition from the state fails right out of the gate.
“Furthermore,” Kraut added, “the state has produced no evidence that it is experiencing a rash of gun sales to minors, or that marketing to any demographic has led to violence committed by minors illegally buying guns.”
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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 720,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
Leftists of all stripes do not build they only destroy. For a number of years I coached and taught at a gun club in Southern California. While the products of local public education went on to gangs and prison our kids went on to…………….the Olympics and university scholarships. Yes, kids in the shooting sports do get college scholarships to shoot. Military academies actively recruit for them. I did when I commanded a Marine Corps recruiting station. Sports instill discipline and teamwork. The shooting sports are no different. When I taught hunter education in California our kids likewise excelled. Thousands of… Read more »
Except they want to lose the volunteer educators; their current game plan is to put a stranglehold on the educators for concealed carry, so I imagine more educator limitations only bring them closer to climax.
Tyrants never admit their failures. Even as they as being eliminated, from the society. They destroyed.
DemocRATS never admit their failures or their faults. It’s always someone or something else’s fault.
It’s called Commie fornia for a reason said Oregoneistan.
I visited there a couple times and decided the whole state was a sh☆t hole full of fruits and nuts many years ago and will never return visit again .
And their lauded weather is BORING!
You’re lucky you didn’t have to live there as a child growing up. The land is beautiful and that’s about it. I will never go back either. Have a Happy New Year.
When the wife and I travel, we pick our destinations based on the politics of the state or city. If we have to drive through a blue state, we make sure to eat and fill up the truck before we get to the state line. I’m not giving them any fuel tax or sales tax. I will stop to use the restroom though.
Because it is not about winning the case – it’s about dragging it out as long as possible costing their “enemies” as much money as possible trying to use court costs to put them out of business…………….
California should just admit, there aren’t enough law abiding citizens left in California to justify allowing the general public to carry guns legally. Just about everyone carrying a gun in California, is doing so illegally.
Can you imagine if people started shooting criminals with the same fervor that criminals shoot each other? We’d be dropping young Black men in numbers that will have the Progressives clambering to FUND the police!
California will kill off the states gun rights eventually by exploiting a huge immigrant majority uninterested in American gun rights.
The California AG is playing with house money, that’s why he keeps appealing these decisions, hoping to drain the finances of all these 2A groups.
politicians never apologize. if they did, they would have time to lie cheat and steal. and after all that is the only reason they want to be politicians.
Tis a shame on these DemoKKKrats who are INFRINGING and CENSORING on the FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS of COMMUNICATION between Americans who share an interest that is ABDHORANT to the NAZI CONTROLLERS!!
When will these NAZI TYRANTS be held accountable by LAWSUITS for NONSENICAL LAWS against Our American Constitution be FINANCIALLY FINED for these FALACIOUS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS???!??