Courts do have a lot of rules for introducing evidence and arguments. The net effect of all of those rules is simple: they tend to entrench the things that the court wants to believe. If your argument benefits from the court’s biases, the rules of evidence will help you. If you’re working against the court’s biases, the rules of evidence can be fatal to your case.
VanDyke is in a unique position here. As a judge rather than a party to the case, he can do pretty much whatever he wants. And he’s using that power to say the majority is using the rule against judges bringing outside facts to cover up their real goal: preventing judges from bringing outside logic. They don’t like standard-capacity magazines. And that’s a personal opinion that people are free to have. But under Bruen, the only way a court could uphold a ban on those magazines is if they prevent people like VanDyke from pointing out the holes not in their facts, but in their basic logic.
Lay people don’t read court rulings, let alone dissents. But video is a much more effective medium, and VanDyke’s video is all over social media right now. That’s a problem for the majority’s logic, but it’s good for logic in general.
— Open Source Defense in Judges on gun knowledge: “That’s for me not to know and for you not to find out”
9th Circuit Leftists Triggered When Judge Uses Gun to Show How Clueless Their Anti-Gun Decision Is.
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/03/24/9th-circuit-leftists-triggered-when-judge-uses-gun-to-show-how-clueless-their-anti-gun-decision-is-n4938243
Gird Yer Loins: Progs Schedule April 5 as Nationwide ‘Day of Stompy Feet and Waah’. (note: mass protests planned… and if the more recent past and present is any indication, the phrase ‘protest’ – ‘maybe’ but don’t count on it being a ‘maybe’ – means violence, chaos, destruction of property, domestic terrorism, attacks upon those who are conservative, insurrection, more of Democrat congress scum calling for violence and death to be visited upon Trump voters and calling for a war ‘in the streets’, ANTIFA, BLM, a bunch of angry male-to-imaginary-female Trans creatures too stupid to figure out why they have/had a penis, a bunch of Trans groupies professing their devotion to substantiating the DSM5 ‘gender dysphoria’ is actually just what it says – a mental health illness, and probably some pro-lifers thrown in —- or in other words, left wing mental illness and marx -ist socia -lism and stupid on full display.)
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/03/24/gird-yer-loins-progs-schedule-april-5-as-nationwide-day-of-stompy-feet-and-waah-n3801086
It’s one thing when a gun expert YouTube person does what the judge did. But they have no authority.
But when a judge, especially a state Supreme Court judge does this kind of video. And in long form.
Now you have the, “Third Branch of the Government,” telling everyone. What they should have learned in school.
But the anti-civil rights Left, stopped 2A education in the schools.
Judge van Dyke sits on the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, not the Califirnia Supreme Court.
I stand corrected!
Also civics, shop, andseverely cutting back on math, science, and finance especially in democratic dominant states.
This video is not a problem for liberal progressive judges or their acolyte followers simply because they don’t care about being properly educated or even the law. All they care about is their indoctrinated ideology and aversion to things that trigger them emotionally. As long as they are allowed to hold sway or any power over what and how Constitutional Rights are determined or applied they will always be a danger to the freedoms and liberties 100s of thousands of people have sacrificed,fought and died to attain and protect so the ‘We the People’ can live in the greatest and freest nation in human history. 27 days and yes they would be ashamed.
Excellent presentation.
One point not covered: if California can ban magazines with capacity greater than ten rounds (an utterly arbitrary number) why can’t they ban magazines with greater than five rounds? Why not greater than one round? If magazines are not protected by the Constitution because they are ‘accessories’, why can’t California ban them all together? They aren’t necessary: one can load one round at a time through the ejection port. That might be tough on the extractor, but why should that stop California?
The left doesn’t feel embarrassment, shame or remorse like normal human beings do therefore demonstrating their ignorance will have the opposite effect and incite anger and irrational rage forcing them to dig into their ignorance ever deeper.
Just at isn’t their fault for doing a bad thing, it’s your fault for noticing it isn’t their fault for being stupid, it’s your fault for noticing. Worse, it’s you’re fault for not accepting their “truth.”
If California has a 10 round capacity rule for handguns, how is he demonstrating with a 21 round mag?
The thing about this video and the ruling in general is there are judges making decisions about things they do not fully understand.
All Judges/Justices are politicians; it is how they got appointed. Individuals like the judges/justices who uphold/validate the individual’s political predjudices; elections have consequences, at every level.