REUTERS – A conservative U.S. appeals court judge took the unusual step on Thursday of recording himself handling several handguns and explaining their mechanisms to explain why his colleagues had wrongly upheld a California law banning magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, who was on Republican President Donald Trump’s shortlist for a U.S. Supreme Court nomination in his first term, said he hoped through the video to show how a lack of familiarity with firearms had resulted in a flawed 7-4 decision, opens new tab by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
