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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      TIL the only form of self defence is bullets. Nothing else. Only bullets.

      Next time you’re walking down a sketchy alley, make sure you’ve got a pocket full of bullets!

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        Well, better than a knife that makes you get close to an armed attacker, and they don’t make holsters for baseball bats, tasers are 60% effective and that’s the ones the police can get that we can’t, and mace is for non-deadly threats, so you should have that too, but time and place

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          A knife doesn’t make you come close to an attacker. You use it when the attacker comes close.

          The point of self defence is to defend, not to go out of your way to kill.

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            Ok fair, I worded that poorly, I should have said “is only effective when the attacker gets in close enough proximity to stab, which puts you at undue risk of harm” but I didn’t think the Pedantic Police would be out, my mistake.

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        Well, if you can’t fight then a gun is your best option.

        Can you fight?

        Didn’t think so.

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      Well… I’m not seeing a ton of these mass shootings committed by the ultra wealthy, where are you seeing that?

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      Who’s gonna shoot you if mini-missles cost a grand? Defend yourself with something else.

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      Only rich people should be allowed to shoot up malls and schools. If you only use them in self defense, bullets are worth a grand each. This is an plutocracy, and such delights of mass murder should not belong to the common man.

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        So if I don’t have $10,000 I can’t have a full mag with which to defend myself? $15,000 for one standard capacity at that?

        Yeah, “only rich people can defend themselves, you poors don’t deserve to live anyway.”

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            the really shitty part is regulating suppressors. I wonder how cheap they’d actually be nowadays if it weren’t for the NFA.

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              There’s certainly an argument to be made that we’d be seeing much more innovation and availability if not for the sheer SOT sandbagging.

              It continues to blow my mind that basic hearing protection is somehow restricted especially when the countries the restrict/ban crowd loves comparing the US to generally consider suppressors to be essential equipment because of the sound reduction.

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        Right so only rich people, got it. Gotta spend money to prove your life is worth protecting after all, if you have no money you might as well go ahead and be victimized and die, good riddance!

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        Toys? This is the mentality that makes reform difficult. You are part of the problem, not the solution.

        There are those of us who use these tools exactly as they are meant to and really get annoyed at both the “AR at the grocery store” crowd and the “Thousand dollar bullets will show them” crowd.