California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday appealed a judge’s ruling that declared the state’s over 30-year “assault weapons” ban unconstitutional.

U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez overturned California’s ban on certain semi-automatic rifles on June 4 that has been in place since 1989. Benitez, a former President George W. Bush appointee, said AR-15s and other similar firearms are not “extraordinary weapons lying at the outer limits of Second Amendment protection.”