On May 8, in its 7-2 decision by Justice Charles Johnson in State v. Gator’s Custom Guns, the Washington Supreme Court upheld the state ban on the import and sale of magazines that hold over ten rounds. Last year I posted “Injunction Against Washington Magazine Ban Stayed Within Minutes,” explaining how Superior Court Gary B. Bashor’s 55-page preliminary injunction against the ban was stayed just 49 minutes after the state filed its appeal brief with the Supreme Court. The case is now remanded to consider the State’s consumer-protection enforcement action against Gator’s for alleged violation of the ban.

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