Supreme Court of New Jersey· 12/16/1968

BURTON v. Sills

Citations

248 A.2d 521
53 N.J. 86
28 A.L.R. 3d 829
1968 N.J. LEXIS 213

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concluding the Amendment has no relevance to state laws — an interpretation now foreclosed by McDonald
\Courts should not act as a 'superlegislature' as to matters A-0859-23 11 of 'legislative rather than judicial concern.'\
Courts should not act as a “superlegislature” as to matters of “legislative rather than judicial concern”
“[R]egulation ... which does not impair the maintenance of the State’s active, organized militia is not at all in violation of [ ] the terms or purposes of the [S]econd [A]mendment.”
“As the language of the [Second] [A]mendment itself indicates it was not framed with individual rights in mind. Thus it refers to the collective right ‘of the people’ to keep and bear arms in connection with ‘a well-regulated militia.’”

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