Bill > S532

This bill amends New Jersey's existing law regarding assault firearms by expanding the definition of what constitutes an "assault firearm" to include more types of semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and pistols based on specific characteristics, such as folding or telescoping stocks, pistol grips, thumbhole stocks, second handgrips, bayonet mounts, flash suppressors, grenade launchers, fixed magazine capacity exceeding six rounds for shotguns, the ability to accept a detachable magazine for shotguns, threaded barrels for pistols, barrel shrouds, a manufactured weight of fifty ounces or more for pistols, and semi-automatic versions of automatic firearms. The bill also clarifies that parts designed or intended to convert a firearm into an assault firearm are included in the definition, and it adds a definition for "large capacity ammunition magazine," which is a container holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition. These changes aim to strengthen the state's ban on assault weapons by broadening the categories of firearms that are prohibited.