{"id":3210,"date":"2026-07-18T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:07:25","slug":"new-jerseys-overreaching-gun-and-magazine-bans-die-in-the-third-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey\u2019s overreaching gun and magazine bans die in the Third Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1990, New Jersey passed a law banning over 30 named \u201cassault firearms\u201d and any weapons \u201csubstantially identical\u201d to those named. The law had a few other nuances that also limited gun buyers\u2019 and owners\u2019 rights. At the same time, New Jersey banned all magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds.<\/p>

Read more GLP-1s and the DSA both end the same way<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2018, New Jersey amended the law to ban all magazines holding more than 10 rounds. It was that amendment that finally spurred legal action, in the form of a lawsuit filed by the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, Inc., Blake Ellman, and Marc Weinberg.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, that, insofar as the law affects rifles, it\u2019s unconstitutional, as is the limit on magazine sizes. It remanded to the trial court a ruling (presumably a similar one) on other semiautomatic weapons and magazine bans. This is a huge Second Amendment victory.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to understand, as few gun-grabbers do, that semiautomatic weapons are not machine guns, where a single pull on the trigger unleashes a fusillade of bullets that stops only when you remove your finger from the trigger. Instead, because of a spring-loaded action in an attached magazine holding the bullets, a semiautomatic allows the user to fire a single bullet with each pull of the trigger without pausing to manually load the next bullet into the chamber.<\/p>\n

Each bullet reflects a conscious thought, although one not slowed by manually racking each bullet, reloading the weapon, or spinning a cylinder. The larger the magazine, the more individual pulls on the trigger you can make before you must remove the magazine and replace it with another. If you\u2019re good, replacing magazines barely slows you down:<\/p>\n