Why California's 'strong' gun laws are in danger | CNN Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Recognizing gun rights activists might view his efforts to push new laws as curbs on their freedom, Newsom preemptively pushed back.
52% : And they've been able to - our gun laws have been weakened considerably over the last 30 years, thanks to gun industry lobbying.
51% : "The Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact," Newsom told CBS News, although he added he supports a sensible right to bear arms.
51% : The standard set by the Supreme Court in Bruen requires modern gun laws to be rooted in historical tradition and have analogues (though, not identical matches) that go back to the founding era.
49% :Gun rights advocates have used that ruling to challenge gun laws in states across the country, especially in California.
48% : In a landmark Supreme Court case decided last June, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, conservative justices led by Justice Clarence Thomas created a new standard for state gun laws.
46% : Nearly all of their gun laws are from the past 40 years or so.
44% : Those gun laws - which are under threat thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision - only go so far in a country awash in guns, where there's almost no action at the federal level, and where there is so much variation in gun laws from state to state and even within states.
43% : Gun violence experts and law enforcement sources I've spoken to over the last few days all say the same thing: It's nearly impossible to eradicate this violence completely when there are 400 million guns in circulation.
40% :Supreme Court set out new legal test for gun laws ... calling many into question
38% : CNN --Gun laws aren't going to stop mass shootings.
35% : Much of what tougher gun laws appear to cut down on are suicides.
33% : But it would also be wrongheaded to look at a string of unrelated mass shootings that spanned from Southern California to Northern California in recent days and argue that all gun laws don't work.
30% : The problem for Newsom and anyone else looking at new gun laws is that a recent Supreme Court decision already swept the rug out from under all the existing gun laws, including the California ban on high-capacity magazines Newsom mentioned.

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