MAG BAN IS REALLY
A GUN BAN!
Direct Attack On Gun Owners, Hunters and Sportsmen
Would Ban Popular American .22 Rifles!
Would Turn Current Owners Into Felons -
Up to TEN YEARS in Prison
No Grandfathering, No Amnesty
"Confiscate, Confiscate, Confiscate"
A2006 = GUN BAN
Anti-gun legislators' attempt to ban ammunition magazines over 10 rounds (A2006) is a lot more than "just" a magazine ban. It's also a gun ban
that would outlaw some of the most popular .22 rifles in the United
States, turn their owners into felons, and force them to abandon their
property or go to jail for as long as ten years - essentially a confiscation.
Whether
by stealth or stupidity, A2006 (scheduled to be heard in Assembly
committee on Monday, March 3), would make the following change to
existing law: "'Assault Firearm' means...A semi-automatic rifle with a fixed magazine capacity exceeding 15 10 rounds."
This change would flat-out ban many common and popular tube-fed .22 rifles, including the partial list of guns that would be banned at the bottom of this alert.
Those in possession of these popular guns would be turned into felons overnight for possession of so-called "assault" firearms - a second degree crime in New Jersey carrying up to ten years in prison, with a minimum mandatory sentence of 3-5 years, with no chance of parole.
A2006 contains no grandfathering to protect current owners, and no amnesty period
or procedure for current owners who wish to comply (in ironic
contradiction to the legislature's creation of a limited "assault"
firearms amnesty period in 2013, which has since expired). Existing
owners would be thrown to the wolves - forced to abandon their property
or go to prison - a form of confiscation.
Although
NJ's anti-gun legislators have long denied any intention to confiscate
firearms, their true intentions were exposed last year in shocking "hot mic" comments between legislators after a gun control hearing, in which they stated their wish to "confiscate, confiscate, confiscate" firearms.
A2006 MAGAZINE BAN
Less
hidden in A2006 than the gun ban, is its stated purpose: to ban
magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. This is based on the naïve and
false assumption that removing a particular type of tool from society
will somehow make everyone safer.
Those
bent on doing evil will not be stopped or deterred just because a
particular tool becomes less available or unavailable. If box cutters
could bring down the World Trade Center, does anyone really believe that
banning box cutters will stop the next terrorist attack? The same is
true of firearms - banning a particular tool will not deter someone who
is determined to do evil.
Also, criminals and madmen don't follow
magazine bans, or any other type of ban for that matter. Criminals
laugh at laws that target hardware. Only law-abiding citizens are
affected by hardware bans, because they're the only ones that follow
them. The net effect is that the law-abiding are put at a disadvantage
against the lawless. The only thing that criminals understand is severe
punishment.
Even
if a magic wand could be waved in the land of anti-gun fantasy and
remove all 10+ round magazines from the planet, no one would be made any
safer, because magazines can be changed very quickly. The theory that
a magazine change provides an opportunity to "tackle" an assailant is
unsound and unsupported by the weight of the evidence.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly held
that police owe no duty to protect individual citizens from harm, which
means that citizens are on their own in an emergency and cannot rely on
911. Yet rather than enhance the ability of citizens to defend
themselves when an emergency or home invasion strikes, A2006 would
instead tie their hands and put them at a disadvantage against criminals
who will ignore the magazine ban.
Magazine bans are also completely arbitrary and their logic, if followed, have the potential to lead to a complete ban on all
rounds. The idea that an eleventh round is somehow more lethal than
the tenth is absurd, and the exact same logic could be applied to a
second round in relation to the first, or even the first round itself.
The
Constitutional right of self-defense is sacrosanct, and a magazine ban
directly and significantly interferes with that right.
NOTE:
A2777 (reasonable deviations in firearms transportation) has still not
been posted online. We will have comment on that legislation when it
becomes available.
PLEASE IMMEDIATELY TELL MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE TO DEFEAT THE A2006 GUN BAN AND MAGAZINE BAN!
Charles Mainor (Chair) (D31)
Fax: 201-536-7854
Gilbert L. Wilson (Vice Chair) (D5)
Fax: 856-547-5496
Joseph Cryan (D20)
Fax: 908-624-0587
Gregory P. McGuckin (R10)
Fax: 732-840-9757
Erik Peterson (R23)
Fax: 908-238-0256
Nancy J. Pinkin (D18)
Fax: 732-548-1623
David P. Rible (R30)
Fax: 732-974-2564
Shavonda E. Sumter (D35)
Fax: 973-925-7067
THE BAN LIST
FOLLOWING IS A PARTIAL LIST OF THE SEMI-AUTO .22 RIFLES*
THAT WOULD BE BANNED BY A2006:
Browning Auto .22 Rifles
Browning Auto-22 Rifle
Browning Auto-22 Grade VI
Browning BAR .22 Auto Rifle
Browning SA-22 Semi-Auto 22 Rifle
CBC N66 Auto rifle
Glenfield Model 40 rifle
Lakefield Arms Model 64B Auto Rifle
Marlin Glenfield 60 rifle
Marlin 552 BDL rifle
Marlin Model 60 Self Loading Rifles
Marlin Model 60C
Marlin Model 60SB
Marlin Model 60S-CF
Marlin Model 60SN
Marlin Model 60ss Self-Loading Rifle
Marlin Model 60 SSK rifle
Marlin Model 60 DLX rifle
Marlin Glenfield 75C rifle
Marlin Model 795
Marlin Model 795SS
Marlin Model 922 Magnum Self-Loading Rifle
Marlin 990 rifle
Marlin Model 990l Self-Loading Rifle
Marlin Model 995 Self-Loading Rifle
Mossberg 377 Plinkster rifle
Mossberg 702 Plinkster
Mossberg - Other Variants
Norinco Model 22 ATD Rifle
Remington 552 rifle
Remington 552A rifle
Remington 552BDL Speedmaster Rifle
Remington Model 522 Viper Autoloading Rifle
Remington Nylon 66 rifle
Remington Nylon 66AB rifle
Remington Nylon 66
Savage 990DL rifle
Stevens 987-T rifle
Taurus Model 63 rifle
Weatherby Mark XXII Tubular rifle
Winchester 190
Winchester 290
Winchester- Other Variants
*LEGAL NOTE FROM EVAN NAPPEN:
New Jersey takes the position that tube-fed semi-auto .22 rifles that
hold rounds in excess of the legal limit are "assault firearms" under
New Jersey law. This was affirmed by the State Supreme Court in the
infamous Pelleteri case, in which a citizen was convicted of possession of a Marlin model 60 .22 caliber rifle..
PLEASE SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS TO RESTORE
THE RIGHT TO CARRY IN NEW JERSEY!
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