Big Update After 6–3 Supreme Court Ruling on Guns

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Amendment with a federal judge officially striking down California's gun ban specifically the US Federal Court ruled that California's ban on certain types of semi-automatic rifles what they refer to as so-called assault weapons is unconstitutional in in light of the US Supreme Court's recent clarification on the Second Amendment and the details on this particular case out in California they reveal an underlying battle that's being waged right now in courtrooms across the whole country wherein you have American citizens using a Supreme Court decision which came down just last year to try and Claw back some of the gun rights that have been stripped away from us over the past 100 years however in order to explain what happened in this particular case as well as what it means going forward for both California as well as the nation well let's back up for a quick moment and start at the very beginning right after you take a super quick moment to smash those like And subscribe buttons which will quite literally Force the YouTube algorithm to share this video out as well as this information out to ever more people now to start with the US Supreme Court decision which started all of this was the famous Bruin case which just free reference was the first gun rights related case to be heard by the US Supreme Court in well over a decade let me give you a brief refresher on What that particular case was all about you see up until last year if you if you happen to be a resident of New York well it was almost impossible to get a concealed carry permit that's because the state of New York has been for the past 111 years now forcing people to prove that they had a quote unquote special need for self- protection the relevant Statute in New York was the civan Act of 1911 and that particular law it made it such that Concealed Carry Permits they can be issued at the sole discretion of local law enforcement and in order for a common citizen to obtain one of these permits he or she must quote demonstrate a special need for self- protection distinguishable from that of the general Community or of persons engaged in the same profession meaning that only if the local police agreed that you had a special need for self- protection would you be given a license to conceal carry a gun outside your home and proving that you had a special need was not easy it didn't matter whether you lived in a high crime area or if you were the victim of let's say a robbery multiple times in the past well it didn't matter unless you were an actual celebrity or you were some type of licensed security guard you were just out of luck it was nearly impossible to get a concealed carry permit in New York now eventually in 2018 the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association they filed a lawsuit against the superintendent of the New York State Police Force arguing that the gun laws that were on the books for the past 111 years now were actually all along unconstitutional and after several years of legal back and forth the case finally wound up in front of the US Supreme Court where the conservative majority on the court they ruled in favor of the plaintiffs specifically in a 63 decision just as Clarence Thomas John Roberts Sam Alo Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Cony Barrett they all ruled that New York's law was indeed unconstitutional and that the ability for a person to carry a pistol outside of the home was a constitutional right protected under the Second Amendment furthermore in this decision the US Supreme Court ruled that quote the previous method of determining if a gun law is constitutional so-called means testing was incorrect under this method courts weighed whether a law would obtain a favorable objective such as crime reduction even if it were not strictly in line with the text of the Second Amendment and so for one means testing was done away with but then also in the majority opinion of the Court which fore reference was written by Justice Clarence Thomas there was a sentence which opened the door for other gun restricting laws to be rolled back across the whole country here was specifically what Clarence Thomas wrote again in the majority opinion of the Court quote the burden falls under defendants meaning the government to show that New York's proper cause requirement is consistent with this nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people adopted them with these principles in mind the court concludes that respondents have failed to meet their burden to identify an American tradition justifying New York's proper cause requirement and so with this opinion statement Clarence Thomas as well as the court and general established a new legal precedent moving forward whether it's federal state or local government they will have to prove that their restrictive gun laws are quote consistent with this nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation and if they can't it means that indeed the law is unconstitutional and so with this new decision as well as with this new legal standard that was established by the US Supreme Court the door was essentially flung wide open for Americans to begin challenging restrictive gun laws across the whole country in the hope of having them overturned and indeed that is exactly what began to happen lawsuits began to spring up across the entirety of the nation which brings us needly along to the case over in California because you see since the year 1989 California has been the place with some of the most stringent laws on the books regulating the types of guns that citizens are allowed to own specifically the Roberti Rose assault weapons Control Act was signed into law by the then Republican governor of California back in 1989 and this particular law it was the first in the whole nation to ban the ownership and the transfer of specific models of guns that were categorized by the law as quote unquote assault weapons and while previous attempts to challenge this particular law have failed over the the past 30 plus years well the US Supreme Court's recent Bruin decision it opened the door for gun rights Advocates to actually overturn this piece of legislation and so indeed a man by the name of James Miller who was a board member of the San Diego County gun owners organization he filed a lawsuit against the California attorney general arguing among other things that the definition of assault weapon was politically motivated and that it prevents law-abiding citizens from possessing or using firearms for self-defense for hunting as well as for other legal purposes now this case bounced around the court system for approximately 4 years before getting to Last Friday wherein a federal judge ruled that California's quote unquote assault weapons ban was indeed unconstitutional judge Roger bonitos Who was appointed to the bench by President George W bush he wrote in his decision that the California law it ignored previous rulings which made it clear that American citizens do indeed have the right to decide which Firearms they can select for self-defense here was specific speically part of what he wrote and by the way just for your reference in this opinion of his when he references heler that refers to another Supreme Court decision out of Washington DC which found that the Second Amendment does in fact Grant individual citizens the right to bear arms not just organized militias that case was called heler versus District of Columbia that's what he's referencing here and so the opinion reads quote falling back on an old recycled justification the state says that its ban should stand because a person can have as many other rifles shotguns and pistols as one wants heler demolished that argument this is not the way American constitutional rights work it is not permissible for a state to ban some books simply because there are other books to read in their normal configurations the so-called assault weapons are modern Firearms commonly owned by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes Across the Nation Under heler McDonald Kitano and bruan they may not be banned essentially the judge was pointing out in this decision that the rifles which were banned use the same ammunition they perform the same functions and and they even fire at the very same rate as rifles that aren't banned and that the lawmakers selected the rifles to be banned based solely on the rifles appearance it looked like an assault weapon and therefore it was and so using this rationale the judge issued a permanent injunction on the enforcement of this California law meaning in plain English that the law against assault weapons is no longer enforcable now as you can imagine gun rights groups celebrated this ruling as a victory even though they acknowledge that the fight over in California is far from over for instance here was what the Second Amendment Foundation which actually became a party to this lawsuit here's what they said in a release statement quote federal judge Roger T benetta his ruling will almost certainly be appealed to the 9th us Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco but for the moment the second amendment foundation and its Partners in the lawsuit are celebrating a Victory Judge bonitz has once again affirmed what we have argued since the beginning of this case California's ban on so-called assault weapons is and always has been unconstitutional however on the flip side you have California governor Gavin nusum releasing a state of his own following this decision in which among other things he called for a new constitutional amendment to ban so-called assault weapons here's what he said quote judge Bonitas is hellbent on making it more dangerous for our kids to go to school for families to go to the mall or to attend a place of worship we are working with attorney general Rob bunta to fight this extreme and logically incoherent ruling and keep California safer this is exactly why I've called for a constitutional amendment and this is why I'll keep fighting to defend our rights and protect ourselves from gun violence and as such the state is very likely to appeal this decision to the nine Circuit Court of Appeals and so we'll have to wait until that happens to see what ultimately happens in this case as soon as that appeal comes through I'll give you an update one way or the other until then if you like to go through the details specifically in this case in Greater depth I'll throw all my research notes down into the description box below this video for you to peruse at your own Leisure and then lastly as I mentioned at the top of the episode as well if you are indeed sick and tired of all the censorship on this platform with or without the federal government involved involvement well you're in luck because as I alluded to earlier well the Epic times has recently extended its awesome sale and subscriptions just 25 cents 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