Battle over California's ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines shows a nation divided
Late last month, a coalition of 19 U.S. states and the District of Columbia came together to support California's ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines.
In a brief filed in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where a challenge to California's law is being considered, the coalition argued that California's ban is "wholly consistent" with the Second Amendment and should be upheld as lawful.
Late Thursday, 25 other states responded with their own brief arguing just the opposite. They said California's ammunition ban was a threat to the Second Amendment and to individual gun owners'
