Posted on 03/12/2014 12:02:30 PM PDT by neverdem
Support is mounting for a lawsuit that challenges New Jersey's tight restrictions on handgun ownership and its high standard of "justifiable need" for carrying a weapon outside the home.
Nineteen states as well as the powerful National Rifle Association have joined the case's plaintiff John Drake, who in his lawsuit claims he was denied a permit following a thwarted robbery attempt on his Sussex County business.
Drake lost his appeal before a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year and now a growing number of states, led by Wyoming, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, claiming New Jersey was wrong when it determined that the business owner failed to prove "justifiable need" to carry a gun under state statute.
Drake's suit also claims that his right to bear arms under the Second Amendment has been violated...
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WOw. What should he have done differently and within the law?
Me too. Maybe they’ll get on board as it progresses.
I can readily understand why Virginia has not joined in. Look at the POS Democrat governor the lousy-a@@ed carpetbaggers in northern Virginia have provided us with.
This state really needs to do what was done in 1863 and divest ourselves of that repulsive region. They don't belong in this state.
Yeah, and thats a fight worth having... /s
...........wow!...........very frightening!
Reminds me to stay the hell out of NJ and never spend a dime there.
“The truth is that liberals do not trust people.”
Because they know that they themselves cannot be trusted, and believe most people are just like they are.
People that will not trust are untrustworthy.
They chuck out any sort of effective nexus with God, and are left with an unmanageable chaos that they then presume they can manage. But they never can.
Never did. Still don't.
Why isn’t Colorado on this list? I thought Colorado was a rugged, and righteously supportive state of the 2nd amendment?
Could they be absent from the list because of the dark cloud named “Liberalis” that has settled upon them from California?
I wish those parts of Colo. that want to secede from Denver good luck.
Thanks mom. For being a rat.
Ah yes. Denver...the bain of Colorado.
“...chaos that they then presume they can manage. But they never can.”
But all they need is MORE of what they want and THEN they will be able to manage.
They need more gun control for it to be at all effective...
They need more welfare programs for them to be truly effective...
They need more control over health care costs for it to be working the way they promised...
Etc. ad nauseam.
Well, at least they don’t think small, unless it is small souls.
No.
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