Wednesday, March 05, 2014

MILLER: New Jersey bill is outright gun ban on .22-caliber rifles and leads to confiscation

New Jersey has become ground zero this year for legislative battles over gun control.

The Brady Campaign ranked the state third in the nation for most restrictive firearms laws, yet anti-gun Democrats who control the legislature are determined to go all the way to gun bans and confiscation.

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They discovered that the bill would affect tube-fed, semi-automatic rifles because the magazine cannot be separated from the gun.

Thus, the experts found that at least 43 common rifles would suddenly be considered a prohibited “assault firearm,” such as the .22 caliber Marlin Model 60, Remington Nylon 66 and Winchester 190.

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2 comments:

Wireless.Phil said...

Maybe Dove soap, body wash had their ad correct when they called New Jersey "The Arm Pit of The Nation"!

Unknown said...

They are going after slingshot!
"Firearm" means any handgun, rifle, shotgun, machine gun,
6 automatic or semi-automatic rifle, or any gun, device or instrument
7 in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired or ejected any
8 solid projectable ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet, or any gas,
9 vapor or other noxious thing, by means of a cartridge or shell or by
10 the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or explosive
11 substances. It shall also include, without limitation, any firearm
12 which is in the nature of an air gun, spring gun or pistol or other
13 weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling force is a spring,
14 elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas or vapor, air
15 or compressed air, or is ignited by compressed air, and ejecting a
16 bullet or missile smaller than three-eighths of an inch in diameter,
17 with sufficient force to injure a person.