{"id":553942,"date":"2021-06-05T20:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=553942"},"modified":"2021-06-05T20:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:20:55","slug":"gavin-newsom-rages-makes-false-claims-after-federal-judge-strikes-down-californias-unconstitutional-gun-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsom-rages-makes-false-claims-after-federal-judge-strikes-down-californias-unconstitutional-gun-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom Rages, Makes False Claims After Federal Judge Strikes Down California\u2019s \u2018Unconstitutional\u2019 Gun Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fgavin-newsom-rages-makes-false-claims-after-federal-judge-strikes-down-californias-unconstitutional-gun-ban%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=553942&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GN-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom lashed out at a federal judge on Saturday after the judge ruled late on Friday night that California\u2019s far-left assault weapons ban was \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and violated the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the son of a judge, I grew up with deep respect for the judicial process and the importance of a judge\u2019s ability to make impartial fact-based rulings, but the fact that this judge compared the AR-15 \u2013 a weapon of war that\u2019s used on the battlefield \u2013 to a Swiss Army Knife completely undermines the credibility of this decision and is a slap in the face to the families who\u2019ve lost loved ones to this weapon,\u201d Newsom falsely claimed. \u201cWe\u2019re not backing down from this fight, and we\u2019ll continue pushing for common sense gun laws that will save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AR-15 is not a \u201cweapon of war\u201d and it is not \u201cused on the battlefield\u201d as Newsom falsely claimed. The AR-15 is the civilian version of the rifle that the U.S. Military uses, the M4. The M4 is able to fire in a fully-automatic mode, whereas the AR-15 is not.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/california-recall-election-gavin-newsom.html\">facing<\/a> a likely recall election this summer over his controversial handling of the coronavirus pandemic, also tweeted about the ruling multiple times and included links to left-wing news sites.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Roger T. Benitez of the Southern District of California ruled against the state\u2019s extreme assault weapons ban late on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe banned \u2018assault weapons\u2019 are not bazookas, howitzers, or machineguns,\u201d Benitez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/federal-judge-strikes-down-californias-unconstitutional-assault-weapons-ban-torches-media\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThose arms are dangerous and solely useful for military purposes. Instead, the firearms deemed \u2018assault weapons\u2019 are fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne is to be forgiven if one is persuaded by news media and others that the nation is awash with murderous AR-15 assault rifles. The facts, however, do not support this hyperbole, and facts matter,\u201d Benitez continued. \u201cFederal Bureau of Investigation murder statistics do not track assault rifles, but they do show that killing by knife attack is far more common than murder by any kind of rifle. In California, murder by knife occurs seven times more often than murder by rifle. For example, according to F.B.I. statistics for 2019, California saw 252 people murdered with a knife, while 34 people were killed with some type of rifle \u2013 not necessarily an AR-15. A Californian is three times more likely to be murdered by an attacker\u2019s bare hands, fists, or feet, than by his rifle. In 2018, the statistics were even more lopsided as California saw only 24 murders by some type of rifle. The same pattern can be observed across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benitez said that the case was \u201cabout what should be a muscular constitutional right and whether a state can force a gun policy choice that impinges on that right with a 30-year-old failed experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment is not free to impose its own new policy choices on American citizens where Constitutional rights are concerned,\u201d Benitez wrote. \u201cCalifornia may certainly conceive of a policy that a modern rifle is dangerous in the hands of a criminal, and that therefore it is good public policy to keep modern rifles out of the hands of every citizen,\u201d Benitez\u00a0 continued. \u201cThe Second Amendment stands as a shield from government imposition of that policy. There is only one policy enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Guns and ammunition in the hands of criminals, tyrants and terrorists are dangerous; guns in the hands of lawabiding responsible citizens are better. To give full life to the core right of self-defense, every law-abiding responsible individual citizen has a constitutionally protected right to keep and bear firearms commonly owned and kept for lawful purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom lashed out at a federal judge on Saturday after the judge ruled late on Friday night that California\u2019s far-left assault weapons ban was \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279340,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GN-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gavin Newsom Rages, Makes False Claims After Federal Judge Strikes Down California\u2019s \u2018Unconstitutional\u2019 Gun Ban","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GN-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gavin Newsom Rages, Makes False Claims After Federal Judge Strikes Down California\u2019s \u2018Unconstitutional\u2019 Gun Ban","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}