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He questioned whether their self-defense claims were valid — their “purported actual fear that their mother and their father were going to kill them the night of the murders.”

“The only effect of California’s law on armed self-defense is the limitation that a person may fire no more than ten rounds without pausing to reload, something rarely done in self-defense.”

California gun owners and advocacy groups challenged the ban, and more than two dozen conservative states argued alongside them that the restrictions amounted to an unlawful infringement on the self-defense rights of average, law-abiding Californians.

To offer the island some protections, Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act in 1979, which established non-diplomatic channels for engagement and ensured the U.S. would continue to sell arms to Taiwan for self-defense.

Around the same time, Chol Soo Lee was being tried for a second murder in prison, which he claimed was out of self-defense.