posado's wife, jody, was one of eight people killed by a gunman in 1993. >> he needs to just go to acouple of the funerals and find out what the reality is of how these weapons are used, the impact it has, the devastation is has for these families. >> reporter: judge benitez said the state's ban on illegal military style rifles violates the right to bear arms. in his decision he wrote "like the swiss army knife, the ar-15 is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment." the governor blasted the compare say comparison saying "the fact this judge compared the areceive-15, a weapon of war on the battlefield, to a swiss army knife is a slap in the face to families who have lost loved ones to this weapon." >> how do we face the families who have lost their loved ones to gun violence? when a judge says an automatic weapon is the equivalent of a swiss army knife. something is very wrong. >> reporter: sam locardo says less than two weeks after the mass shooting at the vta rail yard, putting more weapons on the street isn't the answer. >> it's hard to escape th