Damn, by the headline I thought the article was saying they’d give me $500 a year to help me exercise my 2nd Amendment rights.
That might actually make economic sense. In exchange for getting your CCW, passing marksmanship test, and agreeing to carry whenever you go out in public in NJ, you get $500. Spending $60K on putting 120 more CCWs out there will probably do more to reduce crime than spending $60K to add one more cop.