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 vast majority of shootings aren’t related to schools, and could be solved by the following measures to make society less hostile, pushing less people to violence:
These two would help cut-down on domestic abuse and kids finding guns:
Furthermore, most school shooters are dudes under 30 buying way more guns than they can afford via credit card knowing they won’t have to pay the debt. So don’t allow people under 30 to buy rifles with credit cards.
Assault rifle bans make no sense. Most states with bans consider a standard AR-15 build to be an assault rifle but not a mini-14.
They both shoot the same bullets, just as fast, with the same magazine capacities available. But one looks like an old hunting rifle, while the other looks modern and scary.
The things that make a gun considered an assault rifle have nothing to do with how powerful it is, and more to do with how easily you can clean and repair it, or how nice the ergonomics are.
Its literally a giant waste of political clout designed to piss off the right people.
Fantastic way to address the issues and the explanation of what makes a lot of the so called “common sense” gun legislation so problematic.
Ty for writing this up!
I believe netherlands or somewhere also do a thing where ammo is only available at ranges and places where you use guns, you can’t bring the ammo home with you.
Sure, there will always be some guys who break the rules but I’m sure that will prevent a lot of school shootings having ammo readily available.
But really, the very core issue is conditions for the children and the family are just terrible right now.