Buying Multiple Guns Per Month Ruled Legal by California Court

March 11, 2024, 11:33 PM UTC

A California law prohibiting individuals from buying more than one gun in a 30-day period was struck down by a federal judge Monday.

“Nothing in the text of the Second Amendment suggests that the Second Amendment right is limited to possession and acquisition of a single firearm...if anything, the usage of the term ‘arms’ in plural suggests the opposite,” said Judge William Q. Hayes, of the US District Court for the Southern District of California.

Hayes analyzed the case through the US Supreme Court’s 2022 New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n Inc. v. Bruen decision, which struck down ...

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