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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS Case No.: 23-cv-0945-AGS-KSC

FOUNDATION,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART Plaintiff,

PLAINTIFF’S PRELIMINARY-

5 v. INJUNCTION MOTION (ECF 14) 6 Rob BONTA, Attorney General of California, Defendant.

Under a new regulatory scheme, California restricts “abnormally dangerous” guns and sets other industry standards. A firearm-trade group seeks to preliminarily enjoin this law’s enforcement. BACKGROUND As of last summer, California’s Firearm Industry Responsibility Act—“AB 1594” in legislative parlance—compels industry members to: (1) implement “reasonable controls” regarding gun safety; (2) not “manufacture, market, import,” or sell any “firearm- related product that is abnormally dangerous and likely to create an unreasonable risk of harm . . . in California”; and (3) not “engage in any conduct” that infringes several unfair- business-practices laws. Cal. Civ. Code § 3273.51; id. §…