New Jersey Supreme Court Upholds Magazine Ban

By Tom Knighton

Magazine bans are a favorite cause of the left. It’s convinced that if you can only have so many rounds, bad people will suddenly become good and noble creatures. Alright, maybe not quite that, but they do think that a magazine ban will somehow have an impact on crime.

As such, they altered New Jersey’s magazine restrictions, lowering the limit from 15 rounds down to just 10.

Now, the state Supreme Court has upheld that ban.

Just in case gun owners needed another reason to back Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court or to get energized ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey gave us one. On September 28, District Judge Peter G. Sheridan denied a motion for a preliminary injunction that would have enjoined enforcement of New Jersey’s 10-round magazine capacity limit.

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In his decision, Sheridan conceded that magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds are in “common use” and thus entitled to Second Amendment protection. However, Sheridan then proceeded, as other courts have done, to apply an infinitely malleable interest-balancing test standard to determine whether New Jersey’s infringement on the Second Amendment right …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms