Friday night, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez struck down California’s ban on assault weapons in Miller v. Bonta. Second, it likely isn’t coincidental that this latest assault weapon gun lobby case came to Benitez. Another 52,000 assault weapon registrations were backlogged and left unregistered when the last California registration period closed in 2018. According to this survey, of the 19.9 million firearms in the state, assault weapons make up 5% or approximately 1,000,000. Assault weapons that could be used for more mass killings.

Source: Forbes June 05, 2021 20:37 UTC