BELLEVUE, Wash. — July 26, 2024 — The Second Modification Basis has filed a memorandum of factors and authorities in assist of their movement for abstract judgment in a federal court docket problem of California’s 10-day ready interval. The case is named Curtin v. Bonta.
The memorandum was filed in U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of California. SAF is joined by the North County Capturing Heart, San Diego County Gun House owners PAC, California Gun Rights Basis, Firearms Coverage Coalition, PWGG, L.P., and 5 non-public residents. They’re represented by attorneys Bradley A. Benbrook and Stephen M. Duvernay on the Benbrook Regulation Group in Sacramento.
“This basic concern on this case is crystal clear,” stated SAF founder and Government Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “California denies entry to the elemental proper to maintain and bear arms by the imposition of its ready interval legislation, which requires law-abiding people to attend not less than ten days earlier than they will take possession of a firearm, even when the state can verify, usually inside minutes, they’re eligible to amass firearms. This is mindless in any respect, particularly in instances the place the gun purchaser already owns different firearms.”
“On the time of the founding, when the Second Modification was included within the Invoice of Rights,” famous SAF Government Director Adam Kraut, “there was no such factor as a ready interval, wherever within the nation. The primary time a ready interval was enacted in any jurisdiction was not till 1923, lengthy after the related time interval thought of by the Supreme Courtroom within the 2022 Bruen ruling, which struck down a legislation handed in New York, in 1911.”