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Federal court strikes down New Jersey ban on assault rifles and large-capacity magazines (www.theguardian.com)
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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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[–] -4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I hate this fucking country and the people in it.

Refuse to even consider not owning a fucking ar-15, and for what? So you can feel tough? Certainly nobody is using them to actually fight tyranny.

And you sure as shit don't need AR-15s to hunt.

I guess the most important thing is that you feel big and tough when you hold it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I like to shoot paper targets with mine. Oh no, the horror!

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  • [+] -8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    No need to own an AR-15 though.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You don’t need to share {insert opinion}. We should make sharing that opinion illegal.

    Civil rights are important and you don’t get to chop them up piecemeal.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    1. AR15 shoots 223 which is a small cartridge,egal to use in some states because it is underpowered.

    2. True, AR15 is less likely to be used to fight tyranny. For that, the award goes to the AK47.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    And you sure as shit don’t need AR-15s to hunt.

    For deer, yep, an AR-15 chambered in the standard .223 is generally considered too weak. You need something more powerful to ensure a humane kill.

    For mid-sized animals like wolf and wild hog, it's the right size. Though, even for those, many would consider an AR-15 chambered in the standard .223 to be too weak still.

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