Breaking! Federal Court Finds California Magazine Ban Violates the Second Amendment

view the web version of this email NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 26, NUMBER 13   LEGAL & LEGISLATION  NEWS   Breaking! Federal Court Finds California Magazine Ban Violates the Second Amendment In one of the strongest judicial statements in favor of the Second Amendment to date, Judge Roger T. Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California determined on Friday that California's ban on commonly possessed firearm magazines violates the Second Amendment. The case is Duncan v. Becerra. The NRA-supported case had already been up to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on the question of whether the law's enforcement should be suspended during proceedings on its constitutionality. Last July, a three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit upheld Judge Benitez's suspension of enforcement and sent the case back to him for further proceedings on the merits of the law itself.   NEWS   Ocasio-Cortez Joins Effort to Pressure Banks into Adopting the Far Left's Anti-gun Agenda The battle over politics in the financial marketplace continues to intensify. The combatants include anti-gun politicians who insist that banks have a social responsibility to sign onto the far left's political agenda. Opposing them are patriotic Americans of all stripes who believe that federally chartered banks should serve the law-abiding public without ideological or political discrimination.   NEWS  LEGAL & LEGISLATION   Complaint Filed in NRA-supported Challenge to Hawaii Concealed Carry Law FAIRFAX, Va. – The Hawaii Rifle Association (HRA), with the support of the National Rifle Association, today filed a lawsuit challenging Hawaii's extreme requirement that a concealed carry license can only be issued in "urgent" or "exceptional" instances.  "This law is so extreme that regular, law-abiding Americans cannot obtain concealed carry licenses, and that is a clear violation of their right to keep and bear arms," said Chris W. Cox, executive director, National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action.      NEWS   Dick's Sporting Goods Loses $150 million on Gun Control Crusade For the last year we've been reporting on the bizarre saga of Dick's Sporting Goods' transformation from a relatively functional purveyor of mainstream sporting goods to a groveling symbol of modern corporate virtue signaling. On Friday, new evidence emerged of just how much that crusade has cost the retailer.   HUNTING   ESPN Sportscaster Attacks Sportsman Perhaps jealous of all of the negative coverage his MSNBC protégé has received in recent days, this week ESPN host Keith Olbermann launched an unhinged Twitter attack against a Mississippi hunter that earned the political commentator widespread scorn.   NEWS   Questionable Metrics in New Study A Columbia University doctoral student in epidemiology and professors from the NYU School of Public Health, the BU School of Public Health, and the Penn School of Medicine published a study last week in The BMJ (formerly known as the British Medical Journal) that purports to have found that "states with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings, and a growing divide appears to be emerging between restrictive and permissive states."   LEGAL & LEGISLATION   Attend Firearms Law Seminar in Indianapolis Please join us at the Annual National Firearms Law Seminar to be held on Friday, April 26, 2019 as part of the NRA Annual Meetings. This all-day seminar provides legal instruction for attorneys and all others interested in Second Amendment law. CLE credit for all states is available.    NRA ANNUAL MEETINGS Get Your Tickets Today to the 2019 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum! NRA-ILA's annual Leadership Forum is one of the most politically significant and popular events in the country, featuring our nation's top Second Amendment leaders in government, the media, and the entertainment industry. STATE GRASSROOTS ROUND-UP Connecticut Connecticut: Gun Control Bills Pass Committee Delaware Delaware: House Passes Gun Control Legislation to the Senate Indiana Indiana: House Committee Passes Amended Self-Defense Bill Indiana: Important Self-Defense Bill Moving Through Senate Kentucky Kentucky: Legislature Adjourned Sine Die Nevada Nevada: Bill To Criminalize Firearm Modifications And Allow Local Infringements to Be Heard! Oregon Oregon: Language Released For Gun Control Bill, Additional Hearing Scheduled Rhode Island Rhode Island: Gun Control Night – Round 2 Tennessee Tennessee: Busy Week Ahead for Committees in the Volunteer State Utah Utah: Governor Signs Self-Defense Legislation into Law SHARE THIS EMAIL