Sipsey Street Irregulars: New Jersey’s Ammo Law Would Destroy Legacies To Go After Chris Christie

Friday, May 9, 2014

New Jersey’s Ammo Law Would Destroy Legacies To Go After Chris Christie

A legal restriction on the number of cartridges a gun can hold, a proposal that has bounced around the State House for more than a year, has just one hurdle left before it lands on Governor Christie’s desk.

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Anonymous said...: Since Christie doesn't understand the purpose of the Second Amendment and is ultimately a gun grabber, I'll bet he signs that bill into law. I will not vote for Christie in the Republican Primary. I would only vote for him in the general election, if he wins the nomination, against a damned democrat, which I would despise even more than Christie.; May 9, 2014 at 10:06 AM
Ed said...: One of the comments to the original article mentioned compulsory arms ownership, a concept once practiced in the American Colonies for the common defense of a community by the members of of a community - in other words, the militia:

http://www.volokh.com/2011/12/08/a-cautionary-note-for-readers-of-%E2%80%9Cthe-people%E2%80%9D-of-the-second-amendment-citizenship-and-the-right-to-bear-arms-85-n-y-u-l-rev-1521-2010/

http://www.volokh.com/2011/12/09/laws-about-gun-ownership-in-early-america/

Searching online for "compulsory weapons ownership", I found links to the Swiss militia training system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

And this in Nucla, Colorado following the lead of Nelson, Georgia:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/05/mandatory_gun_ownership_law_passed_in_colorado.html

"Recently, however, a lawsuit was filed against Nelson by The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. According to BizPac Review, the lawsuit was designed "to establish that the government does not have the authority to compel Americans to buy guns or bring them into their homes.""

Conversely, using the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, one could also easily argue that government has no authority to PROHIBIT Americans from buying guns or keeping them in their homes or elsewhere. So, which is it, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence? It appears that the Brady Center came to the same conclusion, even if they express it poorly:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/23/nelson-georgia-guns_n_3805292.html

"The Brady Center applauded the city council's decision in a statement:

“The Constitution protects not just the right to bear arms, but the right not to bear arms,” said Jonathan Lowy, Director of the Legal Action Project at the Brady Center. “The Brady Center brought this lawsuit to establish that the Constitution protects the rights of gun owners and non-gun owners alike, and all of us must be respectful of each other’s rights. We are pleased that as a result of our lawsuit the City of Nelson has recognized that the Second Amendment protects the rights of the hundreds of millions of Americans who believe that the best way to keep themselves and their families safe is by keeping guns out of their homes.”"

Uh... No.; May 9, 2014 at 3:47 PM
Anonymous said...: NJ gun owners should never - ever - forget total and complete confiscation of all privately-held firearms is the goal of NJ's "progressives". When this bill succeeds, (as it inevitably will), NJ gun owners can look forward to having their scoped bolt-action rifles being banned as "sniper weapons", their muzzle-loaders as "terrorist weapons" , and even their hunting bows and arrows as "public hazards". >Jeff; May 9, 2014 at 4:58 PM
bloodyspartan said...: The Time for Talk is DONE< DONE DONE>

Now is the Time for Action . Disobey the law and Fight them.

Or be a slave and die when they fell like it.
We should be attacking and destroying the ENEMY NOW!; May 10, 2014 at 4:31 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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