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BREAKING: LAPD stops enforcing California’s ‘high-capacity’ magazine ban

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BREAKING: LAPD stops enforcing California’s ‘high-capacity’ magazine ban

Internal LAPD email cites recent Supreme Court decisions.

Lee Williams
Jul 21, 2022
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BREAKING: LAPD stops enforcing California’s ‘high-capacity’ magazine ban

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by Lee Williams

The Los Angeles Police Department has stopped enforcing California’s state law banning “high-capacity” magazines, according to an internal LAPD email obtained by the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project.

The email was sent Wednesday morning to all LAPD personnel by Commander Ernest Eskridge, assistant commanding officer of the department’s Detective Bureau.

Eskridge noted that on June 23, the “United States Supreme Court vacated the ruling in Duncan v. Bonta and remanded the case back to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal for further consideration in light of its recent decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.”

Because of this ruling, Eskridge said in the email, all sworn LAPD personnel shall not “investigate, detain or arrest” anyone for possessing a magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds, unless they are already legally barred from possession ammunition in the state.

There were three issues in Duncan v. Bonta: whether a law prohibiting law-abiding citizens from possessing magazines in common use violates the Second Amendment, whether confiscating legally obtained magazines violated the “takings clause,” and whether the “two-step” approach the 9th Circuit and other courts applied to Second Amendment cases is constitutional and meets Supreme Court precedents.

In Bruen, the Supreme Court held that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home and that New York’s “special need” requirement for a concealed-carry permit violates those protections.

Please check back throughout the day for more on this breaking story.

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Keith Baumer
Jul 21, 2022

It's all coming back to Bite them in the Butt !!!!! Love it when a Plan comes together. Thanks for keeping us informed Lee...

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Zachary
Jul 21, 2022

Shocking. Why would they do that when Bruen didn’t force them? At least not yet anyway. They could possibly abuse people for months or years with impunity.

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