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

  • hoch
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    I like to shoot paper targets with mine. Oh no, the horror!

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        You should own one if you are in a marginalized group or consider yourself an ally. The opressors have them, so should you.

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        You don’t need to share {insert opinion}. We should make sharing that opinion illegal.

        Civil rights are important and you don’t get to chop them up piecemeal.

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          People act like they’re picking which DLC to download for a game. If the 2nd doesn’t matter, the same can be true for the rest.