Posted on 06/04/2023 2:46:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a legal challenge of New Jersey’s “sensitive places” concealed carry statute have filed a response to the state’s motion for a stay in the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The case is now known as Koons v. Platkin.
Second Amendment Foundation is joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners, New Jersey Second Amendment Society, and four private citizens.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb granted a preliminary injunction, and the state filed a motion to stay the order pending appeal.
Second Amendment Foundation opposes the stay, arguing the state “did not meet its burden before the district court, and it cannot meet it in this Court. Thus a stay pending appeal should be denied.” “The state is struggling with all its might,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “in a stubborn effort to retain a literal stranglehold on the rights of New Jersey citizens. We’re challenging the ban on legal carry in parks, on beaches, and at recreation facilities, publicly owned museums and libraries, bars and restaurants where alcohol is served, entertainment facilities, airports (before TSA security), public transportation hubs, and the presumptive ban on private property.
“There is no established historical tradition that could justify the restrictions included in the new law. New Jersey simply cannot criminalize licensed concealed carry virtually everywhere in the state by designating everything as a ‘sensitive area,’ nor should it be allowed to continue enforcing these restrictions pending appeal.”
SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut said the state is playing a game of chicken with the Supreme Court and the Second Amendment. “The state is burdened with showing the carry restrictions are consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation, and we don’t see how that is possible,” Kraut said. “The state has not provided any evidence of Founding era restrictions like it wants to enforce today, and is essentially trying to stall the inevitable for as long as possible.”
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 720,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control
Let’s hope the Supremes get supremely pissed off at these filthy anti-gun democrat states and drop BIG hammer on their douchebaggery!
Typical chicken sh*t NJ move
Decades of stolen New Jersey “elections” have consequences.
You never read about it as Hawaii is not a state as most of USA is concerned, but we have all those crap laws and nobody bothers to sue on our behalf.
So how do we handle it?
We ignore the law.
Universal gun registration, we for the most part ignore it.
Most restrictive concealed carry laws and restrictions we ignore them.
Permission to acquire is mandatory, most of us ignore it and get them on the mainland.
Hawaii is a very safe place to live for two reasons and it is not due to gun laws.
#1 Very few AA people and the ones here are mostly military.
#2 A very strong sense of family.
I’ll throw in a third, we know where the cops live and they know it.
So how do we handle it?
We ignore the law.
That is the only way to take away their power. (if we want to.)
Your reminded me that one of the factors that brought down the USSR was that the satellite countries began to ignore the central authority.
Also individuals began to ignore the central authority. Remember Lech Walesa?
The local authorities supported Lech because they were jealous of the power of the central authority.
Corruption on the local level is easier to control than corruption of a central authority but it never goes away. Our Founding Fathers were smart that way.
My state and local laws are far worse than any Federal law.
My wish is that the SCOTUS declares all gun control laws are unconstitutional. Also that any proposal of a new gun control law be a constitutional violation resulting in imediate arrest.
Not with Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson they won’t.
Your wish is close to what SCOTUS did in the Bruen decision. The trick is in enforceing it on the States. Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland, and Connecticut are very close to open rebellion against the Supreme Court decision.
What those who hate the Second Amendment wish for is to delay until the Left can rig the court to essentially repeal the Bruen, Caetano, McDonald and Heller decisions, perhaps by packing the Court.
It is sort of a "Hail Mary" pass.
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