2A Groups, State AGs Urge SCOTUS to Take Magazine Ban Case

 Cam Edwards over at BearingArms.com has the story:

More than half of the attorneys general in the United States are adding their support to a lawsuit challenging Washington State's ban on "large capacity" magazines that can hold more than ten rounds, as well as the National Rifle Association, National Shooting Sports Foundation and the National Association for Gun Rights. 

Four separate amicus briefs from the various organizations and individuals have been filed with the Supreme Court ahead of the justices' consideration of Gator's Custom Guns, Inc. v. State of Washington, which is on appeal from the Washington Supreme Court. Earlier this year a majority of state Supreme Court justices ruled in favor of the state's ban on commonly-owned magazines that can hold more than ten rounds, holding that they're not even arms protected by the text of the Second Amendment. As the plaintiffs pointed out in their cert petition, the court's position would allow the state of Washington to ban detachable magazines altogether, rendering almost every semi-automatic handgun a single shot pistol at best. 

While all four of the amicus briefs hit on the idea that magazines are, in fact, bearable "arms" protected by the Second Amendment and that SCOTUS should grant cert in order to put a circuit court split on the issue to rest (with a ruling favorable to the plaintiffs, of course), they each come with a different approach.

For Virginians, it is really important that the court take this case because a standard capacity magazine ban will be just one of the things the gun ban Demorcrats in the General Assembly will pass if they win this year's House and Governor's elections.  Let's hope the Court takes this case.