(NJ) Firearm charges are filed after handgun discharges

[BADUNAME4]

I left New Jersey exactly 1 year ago and it took me a full year to get over it. Now I know what my great grandparents went through. It's a very difficult decision to move, but I will not ever move back ever for any reason and the gun issues are only the tip of the iceberg. Freedom is alive and well in most of the rest of the nation.

 

[geekWithA.45]

The argument against hollow points is....well, not valid.

They put that one in during the "evil black talon nun smashing cop killer bullet" craze.

A few years back, Lorretta Weinberg, NJ gun banner extraordinaire, put in a bill to ban "frangible armor piercing rounds". She withdrew the bill when someone explained to her that "frangible" and "armor piercing" where mutually exclusive concepts.

She was also the author of a .50 cal ban bill that would have outlawed shotguns. Someone explained that to her, and once again, she tucked her tail between her legs and withdrew the bill.

 

[David N]

I never expected the argument to be valid. My understanding is that if anything HPs are actually safer since they are so much less likely to overpenetrate. I'm just curious what the other sides "reasoning", if any, is.

 

[MikeIsaj]

What is the argument against hollow points?

SSSSSHHHHHHH!!!! Do you want "THEM" to hear you. Hollow points are bad because the government says they are comrade. Who are we to question them? Don't talk like that anymore, there could be trouble.

 

[RavenVT100]

SSSSSHHHHHHH!!!! Do you want "THEM" to hear you. Hollow points are bad because the government says they are comrade. Who are we to question them? Don't talk like that anymore, there could be trouble

That's why you need two layers of tinfoil instead of one.

 

[Janitor]

What is the argument against hollow points?

They're evil looking.

 

[WT]

I have not been able to find any official New Jersey legislative documentation regarding the reasoning behind the adoption of the hollowpoint restriction. Therefore, anything I say would be conjecture, aka' pure B.S.



Edit: still searching. I gather the HP restriction was adopted in 1978.