Posted on 05/13/2014 7:39:59 AM PDT by rktman
On May 12th the New Jersey Senate passed A2006, which bans detachable magazines with a larger than ten-round capacity and bans .22 rifles with fixed magazines larger than ten rounds.
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Yes, because everyone knows the Marlin 60 is the first choice of drug cartels and crazed gunmen.
They are way, way too late banning any magazine of any size. I was a busy fella when that 1994 Assault Weapons band expired in 2004 - very busy after saving up 10 year’s worth of discretionary funding.
It’s way too damned late. They were here, and now they are apparently gone it seems.
RECALL!!
Hey Tijeras_Slim. How’s things in NM? Lucky for me, my Heritage Arms 22lr/22mag is only a 9 rounder huh? :>}
Boating accident?
It’s snowing. That pretty much sums it up.
Good God!
I’d call it more of a country-boy catastrophe. It involved a barbeque, a lotta beer, some recollection about “here, hold my beer” and, poof! Them things was nowhere to be found! They just up and disappeared!
I can see the headline in the Newark Star Ledger.
Crime in Camden, Newark, Paterson, Irvington, and East Orange has been cut in half because of the .22cal. magazine ban. We have to laud our courageous legislators for this accomplishment.
I can also hear the people in my town saying up yours.
We knew back in 1968 it was just a matter of time till the .22 rifle felt the rage of the politician.
NJ is a write off.
Does this mean there will be more 22 ammo for the rest of us? /s
According to NJ Star Ledger the Marlin 60 or as they call, the Boy Scout gun is the only one exempt.
Who is it that keeps saying; “We’re not going to take away your guns.”?
A bill to further restrict the allowed size of ammunition magazines in New Jersey is now just one step from reaching Gov. Chris Christie?s desk.
The state Senate today voted 22-17 to pass the bill (A2006), which would allow only ammunition magazines that can hold up to 10 rounds, down from the 15 rounds currently permitted.
?Today we?re taking another step to fulfill a promise that many of us here made to the parents of the children of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut who suffered losses that are beyond comprehension,? said state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), the bill?s sponsor. ?As legislators we vowed to do our part because we were so shocked and heartbroken by this violent tragedy.?
Weinberg noted that under the federal assault weapons ban that began in 1994 and lapsed in 2004, magazines that could hold more than 10 rounds had been banned nationwide. But magazines owned before the ban took effect were exempt, unlike under the New Jersey legislation.
But state Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) said the bill would only put law-abiding gun rights owners at a disadvantage against criminals, who will not follow the law.
?I have come to the conclusion that gun control favors criminals and disfavors the honest people in our society,? said Cardinale. ?And until we figure out a better way, we should absent ourselves from passing these silly laws.?
The Senate also passed a companion bill (A2777), by a vote of 21-17, that would define specific instances in which drivers are allowed to make ?deviations as are reasonably necessary? when transporting firearms.?
Although both bills passed the Assembly in March, the Senate changed them slightly, which means the lower house will have to pass them once more before they reach Christie.
Christie has not said whether he?ll sign the magazine limit, but when asked about it at a recent town hall meeting he noted that he?s vetoed more bills than any governor in modern history.
?If and when a final version of legislation reaches his desk, it will be carefully reviewed in the 45 days period he has prior to taking any action,? Christie spokesman Kevin Roberts said.
The companion bill was intended as an olive branch for gun rights advocates, but they said it would only make the state?s current law on transporting firearms more restrictive by limiting the discretion of judges and prosecutors. Under the bill, deviations between home and the gun range would only be allowed for ?collecting and discharging certain passengers, purchasing fuel, using a restroom, contending with an emergency situation, and other reasonably necessary deviations of no more than 15 minutes in duration.?
Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to amend the bill to broaden it.
Under the ammunition magazine bill, gun owners would have 180 days to ?transfer, render inoperable, or voluntarily surrender? 15-round magazines. Retired law enforcement officers would be exempt.
State Sen. Paul Sarlo (D-Bergen), who voted for the bill, said he?s concerned that it will inadvertently ban some guns with fixed magazines, often antiques. The bill exempts just one model, the Marlin Model 60, which is often referred to as the ?Boy Scout gun.?
?I would have preferred to be voting on a piece of legislation today that would have exempted all pieces that have fixed cartridges,? Sarlo said.
The Assembly?s next voting session is scheduled for May 22. Although the Assembly has not yet announced its agenda, advocates on both sides of the gun debate expect it to take up the bill then.
One of the most pernicious, evil, dogmatic, far left extremists in the New Jersey Legislature is this witch. Spawned in New York City and educated in a California University, she flew her broom back to New Jersey to afflict the dwindling number of conservatives in that state with her liberal papp.
The product of another age, while most other states are moving towards greater recognition of Second Amendment rights, she has once again demonstrated her closer kinship to the evil-eyed freak who runs New York State than to the sentiments of the rest of America.
Forget about voting her out of office or retaliation against the Democrats who voted for this bill. The majority of their constituency is composed of urban inner city voters who have steadfastly ignored the fact that gun laws disarm them alone and not the gangbangers and other monsters who infest their neighborhoods.
Hopefully Christie will vote with the entirety of his party on this subject and veto this idiotic bill. But eventually he will leave office and Constitutional deniers like Weinberg will have their way with this issue as with many others, continuing New Jersey's descent into the same social and economic landfill occupied by New York State, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois and California.
If Christie vetoes this bill, he will have demonstrated he has more in common with Conservatives than with the other side of the political isle. He might indeed be the medicine America needs in Washington.
Are they afraid of a state wide insurrection of 12 year olds?
.22 was something given to kids so they could learn safe gun handling before introducing them to a proper hunting rifle.
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