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The Guardian - US
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California: appeals court blocks background checks for ammunition buyers

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Pistols for sale at Firearms Unknown, a gun store in Oceanside, California, on 12 April 2021. Photograph: Bing Guan/Reuters

A federal appeals court has ruled that California’s first-of-its-kind law requiring firearm owners to undergo background checks to buy ammunition is unconstitutional.

In a 2-1 vote on Thursday, the ninth US circuit court of appeals in Pasadena upheld a lower court judge’s permanent injunction against enforcing the law.

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