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 ā€œassault firearmsā€ and its restriction on ā€œlarge capacity ammunition magazinesā€ were unconstitutional.

New Jersey’s attorney general, Jennifer Davenport, a Democrat whose office defended the law, told the Associated Press that the decision is ā€œas unfortunate as it is legally incorrectā€.

ā€œGotta maximize the body count of school childrenā€

-These judges, probably

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    29 days ago

    The premise I was responding to was framed as single-shot handguns. I’m not defending anything just pointing out that the nuance matters because like you said gun goobs use it to pick apart legislation and nothing ever changes.

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      28 days ago

      sorry if I misdirected my rage at the gunboobs to you :D

      lol@gunboob downvotes, what a gigantic waste of human potential