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

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    Mandatory psychological examination, background checks and strict requirements should be universal

    Should we have these as requirements to be able to vote?

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        Why? If someone can be stripped of their rights, why not strip that same person of more rights?

        You undermine them all when you fight for infringements on any.

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          Oh, you’re the ā€œConstiTutiOn Says I can HaZ Gunzā€ type of a person. You know what I think about it, I know what you think. We can stop here and move on.