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
AR-15s are a very popular choice amongst mass shooters, when the goal is to maximize mass casualties.
So they’re only used as highly effective assault rifles.
For the sake of accuracy, AR-15s are Soft Fluffy Friendly rifles.
Mine is used to put holes in paper and trash. Same for every one my friends own.
The horror.