March 24, 2025
Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, created a unique dissenting-opinion when his colleagues voted to uphold a California ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition: He made this 18 minute video!
The case is Duncan v. Bonta and challenges the constitutionality of the magazine ban, passed in California as SB1446 in 2016. Judge Marsha Berzon wrote in the majority opinion that VanDyke’s video was “wildly improper” and that he “in essence appointed himself as an expert witness in this case.”