Silence, ban.
A Coalition of Weapon Rights Groups and three inhabitants of New Jersey are mischief The state of the garden to prohibit the ownership of firefighters. Federal court filed earlier this month, lawsuit claims that New Jersey Ban’s repressor violates the second amendment and is “illegal and irreparable deprivation of their fundamental constitutional right to maintain and carry weapons”.
Although repressors are sometimes called “silencers”, this is an incorrect name. Instead of completely silent a gun, repressors usually reduce the noise of a 20-35 decibel artillery, reducing the risk of permanent hearing and making loud shots less annoying. It is not surprising that multiple services and health agencies, including the Disease Control Centers, the National Institute for Safety and Health of Labor, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the National Listening Association are the use of repressors. And by reducing the recoil and flirtation, repressors enhance accuracy and handling of weapons, enhancing the effectiveness of a firearm in self -defense.
In this photo taken on January 27, 2017, Knox Williams, president and executive director of the US Union of Agriculture, gives a silencer to a long weapon in a row in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane)
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At the same time, since suppressors are only suppressing, they do not eliminate, shooting noise, they are not so useful for committing crimes. According to 2017 White Paper ATFSurveyors “are rarely used in criminal shots”, with the ATF constituting, on average, only “44 accused annually for prosecution in silences related to silencers”.
Indeed, repressors are allowed under the federal law. To comply, the owners must register with the federal government, fingerprint and pay a $ 200 tax, although starting next year, the tax will be set at $ 0 thanks to a large beautiful account. By the end of 2024, the Americans had recorded 4.5 million repressors with ATF. In May, a deposit The US Ministry of Justice acknowledged that “the ban on the possession of replacements would be unconstitutional”.
However, in addition to a close exception for “alternative method of deer control”, the state of the garden has one prohibition to suppressors. In New Jersey, possession of a repressor is a crime in the fourth rank, punishable by up to 18 months in prison. Only seven other states-California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island-have banned the repressors. A separate treatment is currently causing a similar prohibition of a repressor in Illinois.
For New Jersey’s lawsuit, the case was filed by the American Compressor Association, the National Rifle Union, the Safari Club International, the Second Amendment Foundation, the New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs link and the Syndicate of the New Jersey gun owners. Their lawsuit is based on the US Supreme Court ruling in 2022, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen. This decision created a two -step test to determine whether a weapon regulation violates the second amendment: “When the simple text of the second amendment covers a person’s behavior, the Constitution protects this behavior with a candidate.
“With the ban on the repressors,” the lawsuit claims, “New Jersey bans suppress firearms and suppressed firearms are” weapons “. In addition, since repressors are commonly used and increasing arms safety single Historical tradition that can remove a hand from the protective field of the second amendment – the delivery of the ban on dangerous and unusual weapons. ”
“The prohibition of replacements in New Jersey is an unacceptable violation of the rights of the second amendment to firearms that maintain law throughout the garden state,” Knox Williams, president and executive, said in a statement. “Surveyors are a basic safety device that protects the hearing and maintains the awareness of the situation for millions of arms owners and athletes.”
