The following excerpt is from Duncan v. Becerra, 265 F.Supp.3d 1106 (S.D. Cal. 2017):
The Second Amendment protects firearms and the ammunition and magazines that enable arms to fire. The Second Amendment does not explicitly protect ammunition. "Nevertheless, without bullets, the right to bear arms would be meaningless. A regulation eliminating a person's ability to obtain or use ammunition could thereby make it impossible to use firearms for their core purpose." Jackson, 746 F.3d at 967. "Thus the right to possess firearms for protection implies a corresponding right to obtain the bullets necessary to use them." Id. (citing Ezell v. City of Chicago , 651 F.3d 684, 704 (7th Cir. 2011) ) (holding that the right to possess firearms implied a corresponding right to
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