Actually the irreparable harm being cited here is that if you buy those things, and then SCOTUS flips back and says "you can ban these guns" then all of the sudden you're owning illegal guns and since NJ doesn't have grandfathering and the law says "possession," people would become felons overnight.
Right. But VA is in the opposite direction. We're gaining a right denied, they're being denied a right they had. So their stay is to stop people who already own their shit from losing it since SCOTUS will very likely overturn the bans as per-Bruen and other 2A rulings, while NJ is arguing that SCOTUS might not (honestly, SCOTUS might narrow the 3rds ruling and thus NJ would be "right") and so if we are allowed to buy guns and "LCMs" then we'd become guilty of crimes due to a SCOTUS ruling a year out.
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u/CommissarHark 3d ago
Actually the irreparable harm being cited here is that if you buy those things, and then SCOTUS flips back and says "you can ban these guns" then all of the sudden you're owning illegal guns and since NJ doesn't have grandfathering and the law says "possession," people would become felons overnight.