Here’s what you should know about .50-caliber rifles:

They are military firearms designed to fire armor-piercing incendiary or explosive rounds and destroy material targets on the battlefield, with a range and striking power far beyond those of any hunting weapon — and beyond those of the assault rifles that U.S. infantrymen use in Iraq and Afghanistan. Terrorists armed with these guns and posted more than a mile away could find choice targets in what Ceasefire NJ, an organization that works for sensible gun laws, calls “New Jersey’s soft civilian infrastructure”: airports and planes, rail cars carrying hazardous materials, and refineries and chemical plants where highly flammable, explosive and toxic items are stored. As Gusciora says, “There is no justifiable reason they should be available in the open market.”

I guess NJ legislators are getting tough on terror. We’ll be safe now that the bad guys can’t shoot incendiary rounds at planes. What a bunch of morons.

When it comes to the assembly, you can call or write to them and they’ll politely acknowledge your request but they always vote against your freedom.

Thanks for the added information, I will not profess to even try to be a legal scholar on the multitude of local, state, and federal laws. I do try to keep up with the ones in my home state and the federal level …and that keeps me busy as is. And our combined comments go to my point…..

I feel we are being cooked slowly …. and at this moment feel our elected officials don’t give a hoot how many emails or letters they get…

If there was a line to draw in New Jersey, it’s been crossed long ago.

One or two states at a time….a little here, a little there, enough to keep us uncoordinated and divided amoung ourselves and always not enough to get a lot of people angry at once ….

So today…anything .50 cal and over, including black powder muskets!
tomorrow …. anything “assult rifle” looking or “military arms” which will start with ARs and Aks and go backward to muskets, keep in mind the Brown Bess was the finest in military firearms (in 1776!) and had a bayonet.
Next is handguns ……
etc……

Actually the order is not important….just as long as the frog is cooked slowly….

So where is the line….California is already lost …..where is the line New Jersey?….

Letters…Calls,……protests…what?

I don’t live in CA or NJ, and I don’t profess to have an answer……and I dont want to just express trite bravado….but I know sooner or later we will have to decide that same question.

All of us, those of us who live in the rest of the 50 states need to stand with our brethren in NJ…..we must as a community draw a line soon…..

“Ask not for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for thee”

You know, I read. A2116 15-20 times and I’m *still* not sure what is and isn’t banned.