Posted December 10, 2018 10:15 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

A ban on magazines capable of holding more than 10 cartridges is set to take effect in the Garden State this week.
Enacted in June by Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy after a multi-year push by state lawmakers, the new law reduces the legal maximum capacity of detachable magazines in the state from 15 to 10 rounds. Second Amendment advocates filed an immediate legal challenge to the ban, set to take effect in Dec. 10, but last week lost their challenge in the 3rd U.S. Circuit after a three-judge panel sided with the state.
“New Jersey’s law reasonably fits the state’s interest in public safety and does not unconstitutionally burden the Second Amendment’s right to self-defense in the home,” said Judge Patty Shwartz, a 2013 nomination by President Obama, for the majority. She was joined in her ruling by Judge Joseph A. Greenaway Jr, a 1996 appointment to the federal bench by President Clinton.
Judge Stephanos Bibas, a 2017 appointment from President Trump, wrote a stinging dissent, saying, “The government has offered no concrete evidence that magazine restrictions have saved or will save potential victims.”
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal characterized the ruling as a “Big win for public safety and law enforcement safety!”

Source: Guns.com

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