Posted November 21, 2018 3:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

New Jersey seems to go out of its way to screw over gun owners, especially when it comes to ammunition.

Not only are residents barred from using the most effective self-defense ammunition on the market, but now they’re looking at being able to carry even less of it as the state just dropped the magazine capacity limit from 15 rounds to just ten.

Gun owners in the Garden State aren’t happy, nor should they be.

That’s why they’re headed to court to go and fight this one out.

A gun-rights group challenging a New Jersey law that lowers the number of bullets a gun can hold argued Tuesday that American homeowners want weapons with more capacity.

The law passed in June limits state gun owners to magazines that hold 10 rounds instead of the 15-round limit in place since 1990.

The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, in 3rd U.S. Circuit Court arguments in Philadelphia, said the new law hurts only homeowners because criminals won’t follow it.

“They need to have some rationale why the rules in place [previously] are not enough,” lawyer David H. Thompson told the three-judge panel.

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office argued that 10 rounds are plenty for …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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