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Federal court strikes down New Jersey ban on assault rifles and large-capacity magazines (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 days ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/liberalgunowners@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49645624

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

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[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Hopefully we can do nuclear weapons next. My neighbor keeps mowing over the property line.

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nobody tell them what the blast radius of a nuke is. I want to see what happens.