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Gov. Christie must veto A2006/S993 — the Ten Round Magazine Limit bills — because they do not serve the public safety. These two bills violate the Second Amendment’s “shall not be infringed” clause because it deleteriously affects our/my right to keep and bear arms that I deem sufficient for my self-defense. My unfettered right to self-defense can be also found in the state Constitution, Article I, Paragraph 1.

Given that the current Democratic state Legislature used “knee-jerk” emotional reactions of the Sandy Hook, Connecticut families to push their anti-gun agenda, there were no real scientific studies done to see if reducing magazine size from 15 rounds to 10 rounds was realistic or effective.

In fact, the Indiana Sheriff’s Department conducted a test and found that shooting and reloading 2-15 round magazines took 18 seconds, shooting and reloading 3-10 round magazines took 20 seconds, and shooting and reloading 6-5 round magazines took 22 seconds. The Sandy Hook, Conn. shooter wasn’t even emptying his 15-round magazines before he reloaded. He wanted to maximize the effect, and didn’t wait until he was empty.

I find it reprehensible and irresponsible that the Democrat-Marxist controlled state Legislature used out-of-staters from the Sandy Hook shooting to dictate to New Jersey residents how we should live our lives, and how we should be able to defend our lives, families, and homes. This was nothing more than a “show trial” to eliminate NJ residents’ rights for a sick political agenda.

It takes police, on average, 11-15 minutes to show up to a crime scene. Most often they arrive after the fact, and are there only to clean up the dead and wounded and make reports. Because the police cannot be at a crime scene quickly enough to stop the criminal activity, I don’t want some out-of-staters, on the basis of their emotions, determining my/our rights to self-defense against multiple armed attackers or home invaders/ gang bangers that will leave us dead, wounded, maimed, kidnapped, or raped.

Studies to show whether or not reducing magazine size will have any affect should have been done well before these bills were even proposed. Therefore, A2006/S993 should be vetoed for being bad legislation based on emotion and not on facts.

Bruce Eden

Lifetime Charter Member

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

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