SAF FILES RESPONSE BRIEF IN CALIFORNIA GUN BAN CASE

BELLEVUE, WA – Attorneys for the Second Modification Basis and its companions in a federal lawsuit which overturned California’s ban on so-called “assault weapons” have filed a 65-page response temporary to the state’s attraction of its loss in a case generally known as Miller v. Bonta.

The case entails SAF, the San Diego County Gun Homeowners Political Motion Committee, California Gun Rights Basis, Firearms Coverage Coalition and 4 personal residents, together with James Miller, for whom the case is named. They’re represented by attorneys George M. Lee at Seiler Epstein, LLP, John W. Dillon on the Dillon Legislation Group, APC, and David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson and Clark L. Hildebrand at Cooper & Kirk.  

California Legal professional Basic Rob Bonta filed an attraction with the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals in San Francisco.

“The state is struggling to argue its ban on trendy semiautomatic firearms is permissible, however there isn’t a historic analogue supporting such a ban,” famous SAF founder and Government Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “California is trying to ban firearms that are in frequent use, after claiming they’re solely appropriate for navy use. However that argument ignores one of many main causes for safeguarding the person proper to maintain and bear arms discovered within the Second Modification.”

“California’s arguments fall far in need of credulity,” added SAF Government Director Adam Kraut. “It’s apparent from the outset that the state is attempting to masks its efforts to control firearms underneath the kind of means-end scrutiny which the Supreme Court docket in Bruen clearly rejected.”

District Decide Roger T. Benitez dominated in favor of SAF and its companions in October and the state shortly filed discover of attraction. Each Gottlieb and Kraut mentioned it’s clear California is stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the parameters and breadth of the Second Modification, and it’ll in all probability take a Supreme Court docket ruling to carry the state into compliance.