Was the Bowie Knife the AR-15 of the 19th Century?
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has compared the Bowie Knife to the AR-15 as a weapon of its era, and New Jersey is now using similar reasoning in a Third Circuit lawsuit challenging the state's assault weapons and large capacity magazine ban. The state argues in its supplemental brief that modern firearms should receive comparable legal protections to historical weapons.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has compared the Bowie Knife to the AR-15 as a weapon of its era, and New Jersey is now using similar reasoning in a Third Circuit lawsuit challenging the state's assault weapons and large capacity magazine ban. The state argues in its supplemental brief that modern firearms should receive comparable legal protections to historical weapons.
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