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On Thursday, a 2-1 decision by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals declared California’s ammunition background check law unconstitutional. The court reasoned that requiring repeated background checks for ammunition purchases significantly constrains constitutional rights by limiting access to an essential component of firearms—the bullets.
Judge Sandra Seagull Couta emphasized that the law’s requirement of multiple screenings before each purchase inconveniently and unreasonably restricts gun owners, arguing that it imposes an excess burden on Second Amendment rights.