A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – all appointed by Republican presidents – voted 2-1 Monday to grant state Attorney General Rob Bonta’s request for a stay...
“California’s life-saving ammunition laws will remain in effect as we continue to defend them in court,” the attorney general said in a statement Tuesday. “
With the proliferation of self-assembled, fully functional, and unserialized ‘ghost guns,’ these ammunition laws serve as a backstop to the use of firearms by prohibited persons.”
The appeals court’s brief order was issued by Judges Richard Clifton, appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and Holly Thomas, an appointee of President Donald Trump. They did not explain their reasoning. In dissent, Judge Consuelo Callahan, a Bush appointee, said she did not believe Bonta was likely to win his appeal of Benitez’s order, or that allowing the order to remain in effect would cause “irreparable injury.”