NJ Ban on Hollow Point Bullets Unconstitutional, Suit Says

New Jersey’s ban on possession of hollow point bullets outside the home violates the Second Amendment, a new lawsuit says.

Heidi Bergmann-Schoch—a firearm instructor range safety officer with a handgun carry permit— says the bullet ban is unconstitutional in part because no other state prohibits the use of “effective self-defense ammunition” like New Jersey does, according to the complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Bullets and ammunition for firearms, including hollow point ammunition, “unquestionably” are “Arms” under the Second Amendment’s plain text, Bergmann-Schoch says.

And “there was never an early American tradition ...