ASSOCIATION OF NJ RIFLE v. ATTORNEY GENERAL NJ

No. 19-3142.

974 F.3d 237 (2020)

ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY RIFLE AND PISTOL CLUBS INC.; Blake Ellman; Alexander Dembowski, Appellants v. ATTORNEY GENERAL NEW JERSEY; Superintendent New Jersey State Police; Thomas Williver, in his Official Capacity as Chief of Police of The Chester Police Department; James B. O'connor, in His Official Capacity as Chief of Police of The Lyndhurst Police Department.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: September 1, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc A. Nardone , John P. Sweeney [ARGUED], Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, 1615 L Street, NW — Suite 1350, Washington, DC 20036, James W. Porter, III , Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, 1819 Fifth Avenue North, One Federal Place, Birmingham, AL 35203, Daniel L. Schmutter , Hartman & Winnicki, 74 Passaic Street — Suite 101, Ridgewood, NJ 07650, Counsel for Appellants.

Joseph Fanaroff [ARGUED], Stuart M. Feinblatt , Office of Attorney General of New Jersey, Division of Law, 25 Market Street, Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, Trenton, NJ 08625, Jeremy Feigenbaum , Office of Attorney General of New Jersey, Division of Criminal Justice, 25 Market Street, Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, Trenton, NJ 08625, Bryan E. Lucas , Evan A. Showell , Office of Attorney General of New Jersey, 124 Halsey Street, P.O. Box 45029, Newark, NJ 07102, Counsel for Appellees, Attorney General New Jersey, and Superintendent New Jersey State Police.

George C. Jones , John H. Suminski , McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter, 1300 Mount Kemble Avenue, P.O. Box 2075, Morristown, NJ 07962, Counsel for Appellee, Thomas Williver.

Carmine Richard Alampi , Jennifer Alampi , Alampi & Demarrais One University Plaza — Suite 404, Hackensack, NJ 07601, Counsel for Appellee, James B. O'Connor.

Joseph G.S. Greenlee , Firearms Policy Coalition, 1215 K Street — 17th Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814, Counsel for Amicus Appellants.

Before: JORDAN, MATEY and ROTH, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

We are asked to determine whether a New Jersey statute that makes it illegal to possess large capacity magazines ("LCMs") — defined as magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition — violates the Second Amendment, the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause, or the Fourteenth...

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