Friday’s appeals court ruling in the New Jersey case goes further than a July 2024 ruling from a federal judge, who said that the state’s ban on AR-15s specifically was unconstitutional but upheld the provision barring larger magazines.
The third US circuit court of appeals said on Friday in its opinion that the state’s ban on all semiautomatic rifles it deems to be “assault firearms” and its restriction on “large capacity ammunition magazines” were unconstitutional.
New Jersey’s attorney general, Jennifer Davenport, a Democrat whose office defended the law, told the Associated Press that the decision is “as unfortunate as it is legally incorrect”.
“Gotta maximize the body count of school children”
-These judges, probably
The definitions matter only when you want to nitpick. Reasonable goal is to limit access to guns. I don’t need to know the difference between single action and double action guns to do that. Mandatory psychological examination, background checks and strict requirements should be universal, not depend on type of guns.
Should we have these as requirements to be able to vote?
Of course not. What that has to do with anything?
Why? If someone can be stripped of their rights, why not strip that same person of more rights?
You undermine them all when you fight for infringements on any.
Oh, you’re the “ConstiTutiOn Says I can HaZ Gunz” type of a person. You know what I think about it, I know what you think. We can stop here and move on.