Fresno Rifle and Pistol Club, Inc. v. John K. Van De Kamp, Esq., in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of the State of California

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• holding that motivation behind statute was \to protect the safety and welfare of the citizens of California\
• holding that motivation behind statute was “to protect the safety and welfare of the citizens of California”
• stating that “we cannot say that the Legislature intended to punish specific individuals; rather, its intent was to control types of weapons”
• analyzing whether legislation that identified manufactured goods by specifying the manufacturer's name constituted \economic punishment\
• analyzing whether legislation that identified manufactured goods by specifying the manufacturer’s name constituted “economic punishment”
• applying functional test on motion to dismiss and finding assault weapons statute was not a 17 bill of attainder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).