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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    Cool. Why are conservatives so determined to see as much murder as possible? Where does their endless bloodlust come from?

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      I’m a liberal gun owner.

      Neither gun owners nor conservatives have bloodlust. What we do have is disdain for laws that don’t actually help the problem but just punish gun owners.

      Take this 10 round magazine law. You know what is the difference between a 10-round mag and a larger one? A little rivet pin that stops you from putting in an 11th cartridge. Anyone with a cordless drill can remove the rivet and turn their 10-round mag into a bigger one. Anyone with a 3d printer can make a larger magazine. A magazine is just a box with a spring and some plastic bits. Making it longer is not rocket science.

      The threat of ‘drilling this rivet is a felony’ does not stop someone who wants to commit mass murder. This law does not stop murderers or save lives. It just makes life harder for gun owners, as the pinned magazine is much harder to clean.

      I’ll also remind you that the guy who shot up VA tech had a .22 pistol (pretty much the least powerful gun you can buy) and a backpack full of 10-round magazines. He complied with the law and it didn’t slow him down.

      So stop accusing people of having bloodlust, and ask why they don’t support the law that seems obvious to you. You might learn something.

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        Tl;dr you’re a conservative cosplaying liberal.

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          It’s things like this which makes it difficult to take people like you seriously.

          • Liberalgunowners exist.

          • Armed black, gay, trans folk help keep the peace during BLM.

          • many of these weird gun laws do very little to actually stop gun violence, but instead expand the divide between the rich vs disenfranchised. .

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            Not to mention at minimum some of the gun laws in our past have been put into effect due to racism including those pushed by Reagan due to the black panthers.

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          This is the issue with politics in the US in general here.

          I’m also a liberal gun owner. If you categorize people with a strict “with us or against us” mentality, where they are expected to agree with every one of your opinions, you cease to have useful discourse and become a part of the problem.

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          You seriously think every lefty gun owner is a Republican pretending? Pathetic. Motherfucker there are Nazis EVERYWHERE and the cops can’t be trusted worth a shit and most of them are Nazis and you dumb fucks are going to pretend like there’s no possible reason for a leftist to want a gun. Get fucked. You’re gonna when the Nazis pop off, that much is for certain.

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      This is the land of the free. There shouldnt be an “unless…”. If you have a problem with freedom maybe you should find a different country instead of complaining that you have too many rights.

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      Leftists have guns too, and I know a lot of democrats that have them as well. Magazine laws do nothing to protect people or prevent harm, anyone skilled enough can drop an empty magazine and reinsert a full one in the blink of an eye.

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      Try to see things from their perspective.

      If they got suckered into buying a gun, they’re not going to admit to themselves or anyone else that it was a bad purchase.