David Hardy notes that a 50 caliber ban is going to the vote in NJ on Monday. Sebastian brought it up too.
I followed the links off David’s post which detailed the arms that were to be banned by make and model. There’s at least a hundred, very few of which were designed after, oh, 1895 or so.
Folks, the nimrods that wrote this legislation are actually looking at banning the weapons used in our Revolutionary War. Yes, muzzle loading firearms are covered. Not all of them, but enough to to make me question their sanity or intelligence levels.
They made some attempt at keeping muzzle loaders safe it appears. If your gun has a wood stock and iron sights you’re OK, even if it’s a 50 caliber muzzle loader, but you’re shit out of luck if you’ve got a synthetic stock or bright colored fiber-optic sights on it, which are pretty common among people that actually hunt with the things.
According to David Hardy (lawyer, probably knows what he’s talking about) all muzzle loaders over 60 caliber are out the door. That would make the Brown Bess, the weapon of the British during our Revolution War, entirely illegal in New Jersey.
Just another attempt at “common sense” gun laws, eh?
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