SAF Files Amicus Urging SCOTUS to Grant Cert in Magazine Capacity Lawsuit

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Sept. 12, 2025 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions have filed an amicus temporary with the Supreme Court docket urging the courtroom to grant certiorari in Duncan v. Bonta, a case difficult California’s ban on magazines that maintain greater than 10 rounds of ammunition.

SAF is joined within the amicus submitting by the Second Modification Legislation Heart and Minnesota Gun House owners Caucus.

“The Ninth Circuit’s en banc ruling defies the Supreme Court docket’s precedents in Heller, Bruen and Rahimi by wrongly concluding that magazines that maintain greater than 10 rounds usually are not ‘arms’ below the Second Modification’s plain textual content,” stated SAF Director of Authorized Analysis and Training Kostas Moros. “The Ninth Circuit primarily based its historic evaluation on overly generalized historic analogues like bowie knife restrictions, whereas ignoring nearer Nineteenth-century examples like revolvers and repeating rifles, which had been by no means restricted. We hope the Supreme Court docket intervenes to guard the rights of thousands and thousands of law-abiding gun house owners dealing with dispossession or worse.”

The temporary explains that magazines are “arms” below the plain textual content of the Second Modification as important parts of recent firearms that facilitate armed self-defense. To manage them, the federal government should show a historic custom of such restrictions, which doesn’t exist. The temporary additionally addresses how the Ninth Circuit’s strategy distorts Bruen’s framework by inflating the plain-text inquiry and utilizing overly broad analogies, and highlights the courtroom’s sample of undermining Second Modification rights via en banc reversals.

“This case is essential as a result of it goes to the guts of defending generally owned arms that thousands and thousands of Individuals depend on for self-defense, which incorporates standard-capacity magazines for handguns and rifles,” stated SAF founder and Government Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Via amicus briefs and our ongoing litigation, we’re combating to revive Second Modification protections nationwide and be sure that decrease courts faithfully apply the Supreme Court docket’s precedents quite than defy them.”

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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt training, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the elemental rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of the USA Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the ideas of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. Via public training initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the proper to maintain and bear arms