California High Capacity Gun Magazine Ban Mostly Unblocked (1)

A divided en banc US appeals court granted California’s emergency stay of a lower court ruling that barred the state from enforcing its law limiting the capacity of gun magazines to 10 bullets or less.

Voting 7-4, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit late Tuesday stayed most of a trial judge’s order that would have put the state’s large-capacity magazine limit on ice effective Tuesday. Excepted are parts of the lower court’s order relating to magazines lawfully acquired and possessed before the judge’s order granting a permanent injunction.

The Ninth Circuit, which took up the appeal en ...