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
So ban guns from truck stops. Or anywhere else a kid might go. Or just ban them entirely.
Again, 450 MILLION guns. You can ban them all today, even if everyone agreed, we would be pulling guns out of cellers and closets for the next 100 years. “Ban them all” is not a thing you can just do. That would require a constitutional amendment, one that basically one supports, so good luck with that.
“Anywhere a kid might go” is literally every public place. Concealed carry is not outright banned in any state. I support pretty heavy requirements for concealed carry, but even an outright ban would not prevent this. Even so, most states have very loose requirements (or none at all) and there’s basically no political will to change that.
Teach the kids about guns. This isn’t even a political position, this is a very straightforward policy to mitigate risks that presently exist and are not going away any time soon.