Fridayās appeals court ruling in the New Jersey case goes further than a July 2024 ruling from a federal judge, who said that the stateās 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 stateās ban on all semiautomatic rifles it deems to be āassault firearmsā and its restriction on ālarge capacity ammunition magazinesā were unconstitutional.
New Jerseyās attorney general, Jennifer Davenport, a Democrat whose office defended the law, told the Associated Press that the decision is āas unfortunate as it is legally incorrectā.
āGotta maximize the body count of school childrenā
-These judges, probably
Marginallyā¦ what youāre saying is itās easier to swap out a (few) parts than it is to assemble all/most parts. The nuts, in the context of this posts subject, Iāve talked to are bringing the āmostā to the few parts as is. The ones bring the whole to the mods are usually the pistol crowd.
Either way, the school shooters, like Nikolas Cruz, arenāt the most dedicated gun enthusiasts. Most mass shooters just get a tool of mass execution. They usually arenāt the ones who will take the time to modify firearms into full auto unless its easy to do (i.e., bump stocks).
The mentality of psychopaths is to inflict as much harm as quickly and easily as possible. Limiting the scope of their access to the tools of mass death is good. Maybe they only get 6 shots off in one load instead of thirty. Maybe the reload time to get those 6 shots off is 15 seconds instead of 7. Its small, but maybe those few seconds lets a daughter get home to her mom that night.
Look, psychopaths are going to psychopath. But, thereās a second amendment. What can a gun enthusiast do with an AR15 that they canāt do with a CVA? Fight off the fascists? They have drones and tomahawks.