SACRAMENTO, Calif. (September 26, 2025) – Yesterday—five months after the parties filed a joint status report informing the court that it must rule for the State of California under binding Ninth Circuit precedent in Duncan v. Bonta—Senior United States District Judge William B. Shubb issued an order lifting the stay and granting summary judgment to the State of California in Wiese v. Bonta, a case filed in April 2017 challenging California’s ban on so-called “large-capacity” magazines.
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For nearly its entire existence, the Wiese case has been trapped in judicial purgatory. The court first stayed the matter (i.e., put it on hold) in July 2017, and for over eight years, the lawsuit was repeatedly paused, restarted, and paused again—denying Californians their day in court.
After almost a decade of delay, the court finally issued an order. Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the follow statement addressing the order, which allows the case to move forward:
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