'Assault Weapon' Bans and the Second Amendment

The attempts to implement sweeping gun control measures are not looking very promising for anti-gun advocacy groups and lobbyists these days.

On Thursday, October 19, 2023, a judge with the Federal District Court for the Southern District of California ruled California’s 33-year-old law banning so-called “assault weapons” to be a violation of the Second Amendment. US District Judge Roger Benitez applied the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Bruen which ruled that any gun restrictions and regulat…