California Gun Magazine Limits Upheld By Ninth Circuit (2)

A California law limiting gun magazine capacity to 10 or fewer rounds was upheld Thursday by a majority of Ninth Circuit judges finding the law conforms to the Second Amendment.

The Second Amendment doesn’t grant a right to large-capacity magazines because the devices aren’t themselves “arms,” according to the majority opinion authored by Judge Susan P. Graber, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton.

The case implicates “unprecedented societal concerns” and “dramatic technological changes,” she wrote, so New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen permits the court to use a “more nuanced approach” to analyzing historical ...