Full Ninth Circuit to Address California Ban on Large Gun Clips

The full Ninth Circuit decided Thursday to hear a constitutional challenge to California’s ban on large-capacity gun magazines.

Large capacity magazines hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition per weapon, and California’s legislators adopted the ban in the wake of many mass shootings.

A panel of the court said in August that the ban violates the Second Amendment because it isn’t narrowly tailored to further the state’s interest in protecting its citizens.

The panel opinion was the first time a federal circuit court applied strict, instead of intermediate, scrutiny to a Second Amendment case involving large-capacity magazines, and it rejected ...