{"id":2414102,"date":"2025-03-20T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-disses-colleagues-fantasy-firearms-knowledge-in-youtube-video-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:25:10","slug":"judge-disses-colleagues-fantasy-firearms-knowledge-in-youtube-video-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-disses-colleagues-fantasy-firearms-knowledge-in-youtube-video-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge disses colleagues&#8217; &#8216;fantasy&#8217; firearms knowledge in YouTube video &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-disses-colleagues-fantasy-firearms-knowledge-in-youtube-video-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2414102&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Judge blasts colleagues in rare video dissent: They &lsquo;know next to nothing about guns&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1780177\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A federal appeals court judge posted a firearms demonstration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DMC7Ntd4d4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">video<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/youtube\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">YouTube<\/a> on Thursday, accusing his colleagues of living in a &ldquo;factual fantasy&rdquo; over gun restrictions, in an extraordinary rebuke of their decision in a gun case.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals published the unusual video dissent Thursday after the court reaffirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">California<\/a>&lsquo;s ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds. The 7-4 majority held that large-capacity magazines are not protected under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/second-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Second Amendment<\/a>, asserting the ban aligns with the nation&rsquo;s historical tradition of regulating dangerous weapon components.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3354423\/minnesota-nonprofit-leader-convicted-covid-19-fraud-scheme\/\">Minnesota nonprofit leader convicted in largest known COVID-19 fraud scheme<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3352698\/trump-executive-orders-struck-down\/\">Eight Trump executive orders that have been struck down<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3354196\/bondi-charges-tesla-vandalism\/\">Bondi charges three people over Tesla vandalism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, shows off a pistol in a rare gun demonstration video serving as his dissent for the ruling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;It is so easy to demonstrate the conceptual failings of the majority&rsquo;s new test that even a caveman with just a video recorder and a firearm could do it,&rdquo; wrote VanDyke, a Trump appointee.<\/p>\n<p>VanDyke&rsquo;s self-recorded video, filmed in his chambers, features the judge using his personal firearm equipment to challenge the majority&rsquo;s reasoning directly. He argued that his colleagues had invented an impractical constitutional standard detached from the reality of firearm use.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Many judges (and gunbanning governments) know next to nothing about how guns actually work,&rdquo; VanDyke wrote. &ldquo;This perhaps explains why they would invent such an obviously inadministrable test for guns but never for any other constitutional right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>VanDyke argued that the Ninth Circuit majority imposed an unrealistic &ldquo;Platonic ideal&rdquo; test, inaccurately assuming guns can function normally without magazines exceeding ten rounds. In his video, he demonstrated that limiting magazine size severely impairs self-defense capabilities by forcing frequent reloads, thus undermining the firearm&rsquo;s practical use.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The majority&rsquo;s assumption that the need to reload in a self-defense situation &lsquo;almost never&rsquo; happens in real life may not be as justified as it thinks, though, and becomes even less so in a modern society increasingly plagued by unchecked group violence,&rdquo; VanDyke wrote, pointing to a 2021 case where an off-duty police officer was attacked by an armed assailant and led to the officer firing more than ten rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The majority, meanwhile, ruled that a more recent Supreme Court gun decision justified certain restrictions on the Second Amendment, pointing to the&nbsp;<em>United States v. Rahimi&nbsp;<\/em>case in which the majority ruled to uphold a federal law barring domestic violence offenders from possessing firearms.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although its meaning is fixed according to the understandings of those who ratified it, the Constitution can, and must, apply to circumstances beyond those the Founders specifically anticipated,&rdquo; the majority held.<\/p>\n<p>His unconventional video dissent did not go unnoticed or uncriticized. Clinton-appointed Judge Marsha Berzon strongly objected to VanDyke&rsquo;s video presentation, calling it &ldquo;wildly improper,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25598531\/califmagazinesopn032025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">according<\/a> to court records.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Judge VanDyke has, in essence, appointed himself as an expert witness,&rdquo; Berzon wrote, noting the absence of procedural safeguards typically required for expert testimony.<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DMC7Ntd4d4c?si=lwgVwwIdXJtuDNiQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>VanDyke shot back, asserting that his video merely &ldquo;unmasks&rdquo; the majority&rsquo;s flawed logic. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t shoot the messenger simply for showing that this reality doesn&rsquo;t exist,&rdquo; he responded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2709654\/twenty-five-state-attorneys-general-join-fight-to-block-californias-gun-magazine-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TWENTY-FIVE STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL JOIN FIGHT TO BLOCK CALIFORNIA&rsquo;S GUN MAGAZINE RESTRICTIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ruling came after the Supreme Court instructed the Ninth Circuit to revisit its decision in light of a pivotal 2022 ruling that emphasized firearm regulations must reflect historical norms, a precedent established in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2570086\/starting-pistol-tidal-wave-of-gun-laws-struck-down-a-year-after-supreme-court-bruen-ruling-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">New York Rifle &amp; Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>VanDyke was previously included on Trump&rsquo;s list of potential Supreme Court nominees in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1780177\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1780177\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge blasts colleagues in rare video dissent: They \u2018know next to nothing about guns\u2019 A federal appeals court judge posted a firearms demonstration video to YouTube on Thursday, accusing his colleagues of living in a \u201cfactual fantasy\u201d over gun restrictions, in an extraordinary rebuke of their decision in a gun case. 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