US Circuit Judge Video Records Expert Gun Tutorial Dissent to Anti-2nd Amendment Court Ruling

The San Fransisco-based US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 7-4 March 20, 2025 to uphold California’s ban on standard-capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 cartridges.

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The case was a Second Amendment challenge to California’s 2016 law that bars possession of such magazines.

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The US Supreme Court in 2021 remanded the lawsuit back to the Ninth Circuit following the high court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.

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The Ninth Circuit’s latest ruling says California’s ban does not violate Second Amendment rights because such magazines are not “arms” within the US Constitution’s meaning, nor are they protected accessories.

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But US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke demonstrated the logical reason for his dissent by video recording himself handling several personal handguns and explaining their mechanisms to educate viewers on why his judicial colleagues wrongly upheld the California law.

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VanDyke took apart and put together various handguns while making the conceptual case that a gun magazine, regardless of capacity, is part of the gun itself and is therefore protected by the Second Amendment.

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He said he hoped through the video to show how a lack of familiarity with firearms resulted in the flawed 7-4 decision.

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He said the majority relied on “its invented ‘arms–accessory’ distinction as an on/off switch for fundamental constitutional protections.” He said the majority “lacked the basic familiarity with firearms to understand the inherent shortcomings” with its rulings.

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