In an orgy of gun ban over-exhuberance, the NJ state legislature has written a .50 caliber ban that not only needlessly bans firearms chambered for the .50 caliber browning cartridge but also historic collectables, hunting weapons, and rifles used by rrevolutionary and civil war re-enactors.  What is the motivation for this bill?  Why is New Jersey trying to ban these guns?  Well because " the time has come to ban the gun" of course.

The Star-Ledger has an amazingly fair and accurate piece on the proposed legislation.

A few trained military snipers have been able to kill enemy targets at much longer distances since the guns were invented in 1917.

Large and cumbersome, they are not widely owned in the United States, have not been used in crimes and, according to firearms experts, cannot shoot down commercial airplanes as some claim.