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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The AR15 is a watered-down M16. Bump-stocks really narrow the difference gap. There are even full guides on how to modify AR15s into full machine guns.
They’re already violating the law making these mods dude. I doubt they would stop at legal acquisition.
Bump stocks are absolute ass for any sort of accuracy, and should absolutely be banned. Perhaps the worst way to enable full auto on any gun.
They’re already violating the law making these mods dude.
Right. I’m sure the illegality of making these mods would be a turnoff to mass shooters. My point is that, to reduce the casualty count, the medium of illegality ought to be reduced. Where an AR15 can kill 60 and wound 400+ at a long distance, maybe a reasonable limitation on accessing machine guns such that the only accessible guns are single-shot long-rifles or pistols might have had that number reduced to 10 dead and 60 wounded.
Ar15 is NOT a machine gun.
It can be modified unto one. They’re based on the M16. If they’re not so good at mechanical reloading and firing, why are they the preferred weapon for mass shooters?
They aren’t 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 it’d look like since then.
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.
I like to shoot paper targets with mine. Oh no, the horror!
No need to own an AR-15 though.
You should own one if you are in a marginalized group or consider yourself an ally. The opressors have them, so should you.
Ok, 2a people that enjoy this access to tools that can spray bullets, how can we stop the mass killings with firearms? Because I’m ok with letting you have your toys if you can solve that problem.
- Target gangs holistically. Change drug laws to limit their income potential. Target all levels for prosecution rather than primarily the top.
- Overhaul mental health laws. This is pretty hard to do. It needs to be easier to get someone committed against their will than it currently is, but it also needs to be possible to recover rights after being committed. The institutions that used to do this need to be recreated with better safeguards against abuse of patients.
- Increase exposure to guns at pretty much every age. This is more about accidental shootings. Handling guns in a safe environment reduces the curiosity if kids find one, shooting classes age junior high or high school age would also help reinforce this.
- Reduce gun free zones or require places that ban guns to accept security liability.
- Enforce existing laws, a significant number of shootings have warnings that were ignored by negligent or apathetic administrators or police. Both taking actions that are generally available and legal now, and ensuring accountability for failures would help.
The fact that you never once said “attack poverty since its reduction directly and drastically drops crime rates and improves mental health conditions” is pretty telling. Always about reactive punishment with you weirdos, never about proactive targetting of the underlying issues, and certainly never in any of the ways that we’ve seen to be actually helpful and productive.
I used to have my license here in Canada, I think guns are really cool and a day on the range is lovely, but they aren’t at all worth the damage and lives lost. Most people who really want them use the same kinda logic as I did when I was a child to try to get my mom to buy me a Wii, thinking I was clever.
At least point 5 is on the money, even if 3 and 4 are insane.
That’s literally number 1 on their comment…
“Target all levels for prosecution” is not “address the root causes of poverty” you fucking twat. Jesus tap-dancing Christ you’re thick.
Learn how to talk to people you fucking idiot.
Sorry I read the comment as it was written and didn’t just make up a bunch of shit to make it look a lot better than it is! If someone says the sky is red and I call them out, that’s entirely on them.
There’s a high bridge over fast moving water with your name alllllll over it, champ.
