Gun rights advocates have asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismantle California’s ammunition background check system, arguing in a new legal filing that the state’s regime is so riddled with technical errors that it blocks thousands of law-abiding citizens from exercising their rights for every single criminal it actually stops.
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), joined by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the Second Amendment Law Center, filed an amicus brief Friday in support of the plaintiffs in Rhode v. Bonta.
The case challenges the constitutionality of Proposition 63, which requires Californians to undergo a background check and pay a fee every time they purchase ammunition…