According to the judge’s conclusion, the AR-15 provision of the Assault Firearms Law is unlawful under Bruen and Heller with regard to the Colt AR-15 for domestic self-defense.
Sheridan specifically mentioned that Bruen “makes any blanket restriction on guns that are widely used for self-defense unlawful,” according to a story published in The New Jersey Monitor.
Sheridan, on the other hand, upheld the continuation of New Jersey’s “assault weapons” ban, as well as the “large capacity” magazine restriction.
Democratic attorney general for New Jersey, Matt Platkin, is anti-gun and declared he will appeal Sheridan’s decision about the AR-15 ban.
New Jersey is maybe the most anti-gun state in the union. New Jersey ranks in the 50th position among the top states for gun owners, according to Guns & Ammo magazine’s rankings. In the 51st position, only New York has a worse anti-gun record.
In this state, the freedom to bear arms is slowly eroding. In the short and medium term, the only way to reverse such anti-gun encroachments is through nullification in red counties and municipalities, as well as federal courts overturning gun control acts.
The inability of pro-gun forces to prevail at the state level, which severely restricts their capacity to enact pro-gun laws for the whole state, is the reality of living in a highly polarized state.
