California leaders brace for more bad news for state gun laws after latest court decision

California leaders vowed to double down their efforts to protect people from gun violence following a federal court's decision Thursday to strike down a law that prohibited people with domestic violence restraining orders from having guns.

The state's department of justice said the rule in California remains in effect, despite the court's ruling.

"Wake up, America – this assault on our safety will only accelerate. This is serious – and it’s coming to California," Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement Thursday. "We are probably only weeks away from another activist judge, Judge Roger Benitez, striking down California's bans on assault weapons and large capacity magazines. California will continue to fight against these extremist judges to protect our residents’ right to be free from gun violence."

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the federal law targeting those believed to pose a domestic violence threat was unconstitutional and could not stand under the Bruen test, which requires gun laws to have a historical analogy to the firearm regulations in place at the time of the Constitution’s framing, according to CNN.

“Through that lens, we conclude that (the law’s) ban on possession of firearms is an ‘outlier’ that our ancestors would never have accepted,” the 5th Circuit wrote.

The ruling was written by Judge Cory Wilson, an appointee of President Donald Trump.

"Judge Cory Wilson, Judge James Ho, and Judge Edith Jones. These three zealots are hellbent on a deranged vision of guns for all, leaving government powerless to protect its people," Newsom said.

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“This is a dangerous decision, especially when we know that firearms are used to commit more than half of all intimate partner homicides in the United States," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. "Californians should know that restraining orders, including Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, still prohibit the possession of firearms. These orders are an essential tool that remain in effect and may be requested at any time. I urge Californians to utilize these life-saving tools.”

Those with domestic violence restraining orders fall under California's Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS), which maintains a list of legal gun owners that need to be disarmed because of a certain conviction, mental health issue or have some sort of restraining order against them.

According to the California Department of Justice, those with some sort of restraining order against them made up about 21% of the more than 24,000 people on the APPS list according to its latest data. It's not clear exactly how many of them are in the system for specifically domestic violence.

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-leaders-state-gun-laws-u-s-supreme-court-gavin-newsom/42749360

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Tyb

>>18281589

This timeline has a female Jabba the Hut?

U.S. Army tests its first high-energy laser weapon

The high-power laser weapon is meant to be deployed against drones, as well as rockets, artillery, and mortars.

ZME Science

U.S. Army tests its first high-energy laser weapon

The high-power laser weapon is meant to be deployed against drones, as well as rockets, artillery, and mortars.

by Tibi Puiu March 4, 2022 in Future, News, Science

The U.S. Army is just a few small steps away from fielding its first combat-ready, high-powered laser weapon. Over the summer, such a weapon was mounted on a Stryker military vehicle and used in tests at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in a “combat shoot-off” against a series of possible combat scenarios. The first platoon of four laser-mounted Strykers is expected to join the ranks of the army in early 2022.

“This is the first combat application of lasers for a maneuver element in the Army,” said Lieutenant General L. Neil Thurgood in a statement to the press.

“The technology we have today is ready. This is a gateway to the future,” said Thurgood, who is the director for hypersonics, directed energy, space and rapid acquisition.

During the shoot-off, defense contractors Northrop Grumman and Raytheon each brought a 50-kilowatt laser weapon to the field in order to demonstrate short-range air defense (SHORAD) against a series of simulated threats and combat scenarios. These included drones, rockets, artillery, and mortar targets.

Once reserved for science fiction, laser weapons are now a reality — one that will hit hard once these lasers are deployed on the battlefield.

Lasers were first invented in the 1960s, but it was only recently that researchers were able to design a high-power laser system that is small enough to be deployed in a tactical environment, without taking up the entire space of a truck or the airplane.

Designing a laser that is powerful enough to take out a mortar shell from a mile away is a huge engineering challenge. The way it is done is through a technique known as Spectral Beam Combination, whereby multiple outputs of beams are combined into a single high-power beam rather than using a single individual fiber laser.

Lockheed’s ATHENA laser weapon punching a hole in a target vehicle. Credit: Lockheed Martin.

Think of a prism that breaks up a white light beam into the colors of the rainbow. High-power lasers run this process in reverse, combining a bunch of beams that cover different spectrums of electromagnetic energy and outputting a single beam.

Laser weapon development was ramped up in the past decade as a response to the rising threats of armed drones and short-range mortars or rocket barrages. These unguided projectiles can’t be put out of action with sophisticated countermeasures, such as jamming or redirecting. The timeline of a rocket or mortar impact is also very short.

In this rapidly evolving threat landscape, laser weapons suddenly become appealing. For instance, the US Navy has an ongoing program called HELIOS (High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, which aims to install a laser weapon system on a DDG Arleigh Burke class destroyer. The Air Force is currently testing the High Energy Laser Weapon System 2, made by Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, with the primary goal of disabling enemy drones.

The US Army isn’t sitting idle either. These recent 50 kW trials represent a bold and major step forward in the Army’s ambitions to deeply laser weapons on the battlefield of the future, where it currently faces a gap in short-range air defense.

Lockheed Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL). Credit: Lockheed Martin.

“Offering lethality against unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and rockets, artillery and mortars (RAM), laser weapons now increase Army air and missile defense capability while reducing total system lifecycle cost through reduced logistical demand,” the Army said in a statement.

According to Task & Purpose, the Army aims to assemble four battalions of laser-equipped Strykers by 2022. The Army is also working on a monstrously powerful 300 kW Indirect Fires Protection Capability – High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) truck-mounted laser by 2024. The IFPC-HEL truck, currently in development by Lockheed Martin, would be powerful enough to put cruise missiles out of action.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/u-s-army-tests-its-first-high-energy-laser-weapon/

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"a non-woke AI informed by everything posted on 8kun would be like a superweapon."

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