re: #95 Unshaken Defiance

Because of legislative issues.

California is effectively banning AR rifles. And each and every model of handgun not submitted for a laughably expensive and excessive “safety test” regime lately. The 2nd A has not caused a single California gun law to be overturned ever.

The 2nd is a scapegoat.

Copied from Wikipedia:

District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and that Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban and requirement that lawfully-owned rifles and shotguns be kept “unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock” violated this guarantee.

Very much like Citizens United, these types of decisions, which removed the state and federal government’s ability to regulate, require either the SCOTUS to reverse itself, or an amendment. And the inability for DC to require guns to be locked means that CA cannot require that either.