Assault Weapons Ban Struck Down in California, State to Appeal

California’s assault weapons ban was struck down by a federal judge on Thursday.

The state attorney general’s office filed a notice of appeal the same day Judge Roger T. Benitez, of the US District Court for the Southern District of California, granted plaintiff gun organizations a permanent injunction against enforcing regulatory provisions in the state’s Assault Weapons Control Act.

The ban will remain in effect for 10 days, and California Attorney General Robert Bonta said in a statement that he will seek a further stay of the injunction pending appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. ...