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Could this judge overturn California’s ban on “assault weapons”? Gun control groups are worried. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Gun-control groups are crying foul as a judge in California is set to rule on the state\u2019s \u201cassault weapon\u201d ban after already ruling against the state\u2019s magazine ban and its background check requirement to purchase ammunition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Roger T. Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California began hearings today for a case challenging California\u2019s ban on so-called \u201cassault weapons.\u201d Benitez has issued pro-gun rulings in two cases in the last two years, and he\u2019s set to rule on another case involving batons, billy clubs, and blackjacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gun-control groups have taken to the media to decry Benitez\u2019s history of pro-gun rulings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey struck gold with this one judge,\u201d Ari Freilich, state policy director for the Giffords Law Center, told the San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Federal Judge Rules California Ammo Background Check Law Unconstitutional<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Freilich takes issue with a legal term known as the \u201crelated-case rule,\u201d which allows judges to take similar cases to those on which they\u2019ve ruled before. This rule governs courts throughout the country, but the gun-control advocate argues that San Diego\u2019s court doesn\u2019t allow anyone to challenge which judge will hear a particular case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe purpose of the rule is for judges engaged in complex cases really drilling into the issues, and not having to reinvent the wheel on a really similar case,\u201d Freilich said. \u201cThis has been taken to an illogical extreme now when one judge is ruling on everything touching upon gun violence in the state of California.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everytown\u2019s Eric Tirschwell also complained to the Union-Tribune about Benitez\u2019s rulings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c(Benitez) reads the Second Amendment more broadly than just about any other court in the country,\u201d Tirschwell said. \u201cAnd he regularly adopts the language and tone of the gun lobby. His decision on Second Amendment issues often read more like what an advocate would write and not what would you expect from a neutral dispassionate judge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President of the California Rifle & Pistol Association C.D. Michel dismissed the gun-ban lobby\u2019s claims as nothing more than sour grapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: NSSF: Gun Control Foes Don\u2019t Fear Judge Amy Coney Barrett. They Fear the Law<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGun ban advocacy groups and the billionaires who support them prefer biased judges who will bend over backwards intellectually to twist those rulings to uphold any gun ban law no matter how useless or extreme,\u201d Michel responded in the Union-Tribune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also pointed out that pro-gun groups have cases in a variety of jurisdictions all across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benitez\u2019s ruling could have both short and long-term implications. Magazines flooded California in the hours following his previous ruling against the state\u2019s mag ban \u2013 until the state appealed and an injunction was granted. A ruling against the state\u2019s web of regulations banning \u201cassault weapons\u201d could have a similar effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Benitez\u2019s pro-gun rulings provide an important counterpoint to anti-gun rulings from other federal courts and could play an important role in the gun cases that many experts believe will be coming up before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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