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

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    If everything that could be used to kill someone was made illegal, we wouldn’t have very many things.

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      2 months ago

      Killing Attacking one person with a hammer vs shooting up a school with a rifle or handgun are not even in the same galaxy.

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      We’d certainly have more kids reach adulthood, and I didn’t say EVERYTHING. I am merely saying ban AR15s and the like.

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          Ban the weapons of war that are preferred by mass shooters. Its like keeping heroine away from the general public to limit the creation of heroine addicts.