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The introduction to today's long opinion by Judge Roger Benitez in Mirabelli v. Olson (S.D. Cal.): Long before Horace Mann… The post California Policy Limiting Teachers' Disclosure to Parents of Student's Changed Gender Identity Violates First Amendment, Court Holds appeared first on Reason.com.

The third time isn’t the charm.

A federal judge who previously overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons did it again, ruling Thursday that the state’s attempts to prohibit sales of semiautomatic guns violates the constitutional right to bear arms

"There is no American tradition of limiting ammunition capacity," U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez says, calling the state's cap "arbitrary," "capricious," and "extreme."

A federal judge has struck down a California law banning high-capacity gun magazines

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LOS ANGELES — To best understand California's desire to uphold its bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, consider recent history.

LOS ANGELES — One of the strangest pieces of legislation ever enacted in California took effect Jan. 1, giving state residents and visitors the same power to threaten the gun industry that Texans now wield over abortion providers.

From Miller v. Bonta, decided today by Judge Roger Benitez (S.D. Cal.): "It is cynical." "It is an abomination." "It is outrageous and objectionable." "There is no dispute that it raises serious constitutional questions." "It is an unprecedented attempt to thwart judicial review." Such are the Intervenor-Defendant Governor's expressed views…