New Jersey governor vetoes proposed ban on .50 caliber rifles

[Subdeacon Joe]

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/article/idUSBRE97G01M20130817?irpc=932

 

NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on
Friday vetoed legislation that would have banned .50-caliber rifles from
the state, infuriating gun control activists who said that he was
bowing to political pressure from the right.

The move comes a week after Christie signed into law 10 less
controversial gun violence bills that were backed by gun control
advocates, including bans on the sale of firearms to people on federal
terrorism watch lists and increased penalties for firearms use.

But Christie said the prohibition on .50-caliber rifles would outlaw a weapon that had never been used in a crime in New Jersey.

"Tellingly, the legislature points to no instance of this class of
firearms being used by even a single criminal in New Jersey," he said.
"The wide scope of this total ban, therefore, will not further public
safety, but only interfere with lawful recreational pastimes."

 

 

And of course, the anti-civil rights side said:

 

"I can only assume Governor Christie caved to the extremists who oppose
any common sense gun violence prevention effort," Barnes said.

 

 

If it hasn't been used in violent crime, then banning it won't prevent a darned thing! What the hell is "common sense" about that?

[Blackwater 53393]

H#LL!! He got ONE right anyway!!

[Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L]

H#LL!! He got ONE right anyway!!

Yup

 

GG

[Muleshoe Bill SASS #67022]

I LOVE the way the term "common sense" is tossed about to make the appearance that anyone who opposes their ideology is some sort of nonsensical maniac. Common sense is not so common.

[Brother King, SASS #69031]

Someone must have showed him the price tag on the ammo for .50 cal and he thought, "Wow... good for business".