As I figured we would eventually see, and be interested in how it was finagled, this judge is using whatever pretzel logic he can think of to read the Supreme Court’s intent of  Bruen’s Text-History-Tradition standard completely opposite to what it actually means.
Your crap-for-brains for the day.

Rob Romano

NEW: Defense Distributed v. Bonta (C.D. CA): In a tentative ruling, judge says he plans to deny motion for a preliminary injunction against AB 1621, saying that the Second Amendment’s plain text “plainly does not” cover the “self-manufacture of firearms”. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

“Such approach would contrary to the actual language of the Second Amendment which provides that ‘A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State…'”

“That is, unless Bruen means something other than what it quite-plainly says (although, considering that what we deal with here is the Second Amendment, perhaps this is no longer accepted as a persuasive criticism).”

“…the plain text of the Second Amendment, which says nothing about ‘self-manufacture or assembly’ of one’s own firearms.'”