Gun Owners File Lawsuit Challenging CA’s Assault Weapons Ban

On Thursday, three San Diego men joined a gun-rights group to file a federal lawsuit challenging California’s assault weapon ban.

California has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, but in June U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez ruled that California’s ban on high-capacity magazines was unconstitutional. John Dillon, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, argued that if ownership of such magazines is legal, then using them should also be legal, as Herald-Mail Media reports. He stated, “This is a straightforward case to protect our clients’ constitutional rights and property. The state of California’s ban on these firearms will fail constitutional scrutiny for the same reasons that its ban on firearm magazines did.”