California’s Assault Weapons Ban Overturned:  Federal District Court Judge Roger Benitez, located in San Diego, ruled on June 4th in a 94-page decision that California’s three-decades-old assault weapons ban(P.C. §§ 30500 et seq.) violated the Second Amendment.  (See Miller v.Bonta (June 4, 2021) __ F. Supp.3rd __ [2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105640].) This includes the popular semi-automatic rifle known as the AR-15. Noting that “(i)n California, murder by knife occurs seven times more often than murder by rifle,” Judge Benitez referred to the assault weapons ban as  “a continuing failed experiment which does not achieve its objectives of preventing mass shootings or attacks on law enforcement officers.”  But this obviously isn’t the end of this issue.  California Attorney General Rob Bonta is appealing this decision. So stay tuned.