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
They arenāt the preferred weapon for mass shooters, handguns are, by a lot: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11800013/
The study you linked goes all the way back to 1966. I wonder why they went so far back to before the AR15 was even on the market? The patents on the AR15 expired in '77, and the assult weapons ban expired in '04. This made assult weapons readily available. Wonder what itād look like since then.