A civil rights victory in (gasp!) New Jersey
In a lengthy and carefully reasoned decision read from the bench December 13, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Maurice Gallipoli declared Jersey City’s one gun a month handgun rationing law null and void, holding that it violates state pre-emption, equal protection, and was “arbitrary and capricious.”
Ordinance # 06-116 – whose stated objective was to reduce crime – wildly missed the mark by rationing handguns to persons pre-certified by the State as non-criminals after undergoing extensive background checks.
Plus what is to stop one gun a month from becoming one gun a year, decade, lifetime or generation?
Update: Oops. Bitter was on this yesterday. Sorry, but usually when I see the phrase New Jersey, I don’t look much further.
December 15th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
If you’re looking for more information, I have details from a source in the courtroom added to the post I put up with an early copy of this release from *ahem* yesterday. 🙂