Appeals Judge Makes Video to Explain Dissent in California Magazine Ban Case

In a 7–4 ruling, an en banc panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld California’s 2016 ban on certain types of ammunition magazines.

Lawrence VanDyke, nominee to the U.S. Federal Judiciary, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Oct. 30, 2019. Thomson Reuters

Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit was concerned that his fellow judges didn’t have all the information they needed when they upheld California’s ban on so-called “high-capacity” magazines.

So he made a YouTube video to explain his dissent of the court’s ruling.