The Superior Court of New Jersey found the gun and magazine ban unconstitutionally vague and a violation of due process rights. In State of New Jersey vs. Robert D. Merrill, the court dismissed the gun possession charge as unconstitutional. Merrill possessed a Norinco MAK-90, a semiautomatic rifle with Kalashnikov action. To prohibit substantially identical' firearms is an unconstitutionally vague approach which cannot be countenanced. The court dismissed the charge of unlawful possession of a magazine in excess of fifteen rounds, because the law violated due process and ex post facto protections.
Gun bans create criminals out of honest, law-abiding citizens.
Some of these connections appear illegal and therefore merit mention. A few years back, David Hammer, writer for The New Federalist , traced the past of many of the founders of one of the prime gun control organizations, Handgun Control, Inc., and discovered a string of remarkable connections. He found that although Handgun Control, Inc., literature claims it was founded by Mark Borinsky, in fact those who knew Borinsky assert he was simply a figurehead. The man who was really in charge was Edward C. Wells. Inc. His close friend, Pete Shields, was Handgun Control's President Emeritus.