Service Armament Co. v. Hyland

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Clifford, J.

We are called upon in this litigation to construe that section of the New Jersey Gun Control Law of 1966 (L. 1966, c. 60; N. J. S. A. 2A:151-1 et seq.) which exempts antique firearms from the regulatory provisions and sanctions of the statute. Specifically we must determine if the replicas of antique muzzle-loading pistols, revolvers, and rifles which the corporate plaintiffs manufacture and sell and the associational and individual plaintiffs collect are indeed "antique firearms” and thus excluded from the Act.

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