Things are looking up for gun owners in the Golden State.
Last Friday, a San Diego-based federal court overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on so-called assault weapons. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez sided with a number of gun advocacy groups challenging the law, finding that firearms prohibited in the state of California are protected under Supreme Court precedent.
Liberal reactions to this were predictably hysterical.
Gavin Newsom, the embattled governor of California who faces a recall vote, called the ruling “a direct threat to public safety.” The editorial board at the Los Angeles Times, writing in opposition to the decision, made the dubious claim that “assault weapons” are “designed for a singular purpose: to kill a large number of people in a short period of time.”