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California Gun Parts Dealer, Patriot Armory, Sued by New Jersey AG, for Legal Sales
Ammoland ^ | 24 March, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 03/29/2019 5:18:49 AM PDT by marktwain

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal

New Jersey has a reputation as one of the states most hostile to the Second Amendment. The reputation was upheld on Friday, 22 March 2019, when anti-Second Amendment Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (a praticing American Sikh) announced a lawsuit against a gun parts dealer based in California, U.S. Patriot Armory.  The parts dealer sold a kit to manufacture a gun at home to a New Jersey undercover investigator.  From nj.com:

State authorities say they’ve filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against a gun retailer accused of selling a kit to assemble an AR-15 rifle to an undercover investigator in New Jersey months after the Garden State banned “ghost guns.”

A complaint filed in state Superior Court in Essex County on Friday accuses a California gun dealer, U.S. Patriot Armory, of ignoring a cease-and-desist letter sent by the state attorney general in December, weeks after Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new law making it a third-degree crime to purchase firearm parts with the purpose of assembling a gun without a serial number.

U.S. Patriot Armory does not seem to have violated any law. It has always been legal to sell gun parts in the United States and to ship them through the mail. It has always been legal to manufacture your own gun in the United States. In the famous Heller decision, Justice Scalia mentioned that it might be Constitutional to regulate commercial sales of guns. Implied is that it would not be Constitutional to regulate private sales or the manufacture of guns by individuals for their own use.  From District of Columbia v. Heller:

(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; california; grewal; gurbirgrewal; newjersey; nj; nra; secondamendment; sikh
Prosecutors using the civil courts to prohibit behavior that is not illegal, is a growing and disturbing trend.
1 posted on 03/29/2019 5:18:49 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

When southerners and mid western folks finally fire bomb NY and NJ remember to SKIP Staten Island.

We’re on your side.


2 posted on 03/29/2019 5:22:27 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dp0622
When southerners and mid western folks finally fire bomb NY and NJ remember to SKIP Staten Island.

Might be hard to do

3 posted on 03/29/2019 5:39:59 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: marktwain
From the article: Because the guns cannot be fired when they are 80 percent complete, authorities say, they can be sold online and shipped through the mail without background checks and other safeguards.

I do not think this is the proper definition of an "80 %er". I believe the proper definition refers to an AR Lower casting that requires machining to be completed. And even then it is a long way from being a gun that can be fired.

This is interesting because all of the Sikhs that I have know are very pro second amendment. And they are nice people.

4 posted on 03/29/2019 5:42:56 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: dp0622

I worked/lived in NJ (:Livingston) for about a year.

Strange place. It has a HUGE inferiority complex. The entire state is viewed as a suburb of NYC. That view is shared by itself and, of course, NYC.

Things like this are akin to a toddler standing up in its crib and screaming “I do it myself!” It is a prevalent attitude there.

This is an outsider who saw it from the inside. Maybe NJ-ites can elucidate otherwise?


5 posted on 03/29/2019 5:43:18 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: dp0622

Collateral damage...


6 posted on 03/29/2019 5:51:05 AM PDT by moovova
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To: marktwain

If I had a dollar every time a snow bird from New Jersey commits crime in Florida... sick and tired of these democrat states exporting crime and terrorism and doublind down sueinf other states businesses.

This is a violation of interstate commerce Mr AG!


7 posted on 03/29/2019 5:53:35 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: marktwain

Why has no greedy lawyer filed a federal civil rights case against any of these states that are abridging our second amendment?

The money would be bigger than the tobacco case.


8 posted on 03/29/2019 5:59:20 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: marktwain

Time to start suing auto manufacturers for every DUI and Drug Manufacturers for ever overdose.


9 posted on 03/29/2019 5:59:58 AM PDT by Delmarksman (Pro 2A Anglican American (Ford and Chevy kill more people than guns do, lets ban them))
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To: marktwain

Sounds like Felony Extortion to me, they should be filing Criminal Federal Charges with the US Attorney against New Jersey and also Suing them for Civil Rights Violations.


10 posted on 03/29/2019 6:08:23 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: super7man
From the article: Because the guns cannot be fired when they are 80 percent complete, authorities say, they can be sold online and shipped through the mail without background checks and other safeguards. I do not think this is the proper definition of an "80 %er". I believe the proper definition refers to an AR Lower casting that requires machining to be completed. And even then it is a long way from being a gun that can be fired.

A clarification: Your quote is from the nj.com article, not the Ammoland article.

11 posted on 03/29/2019 6:09:40 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: super7man

Start the registration of knives belonging to Sikhs?


12 posted on 03/29/2019 6:10:02 AM PDT by Does so (Is Nanzi controlled by a Mexican Cartel?...)
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To: super7man
80% lowers are just hunks of aluminum when anyone purchases them. They are a long way off from being used. I make custom AR's and mill out (and roll stamp) my 80's. It takes a while if you don't have a CNC but you cant still produce very high quality lowers. Pic below is from the last build I did for a customer.


13 posted on 03/29/2019 6:18:03 AM PDT by afterhoursarmory
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***Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (a practicing American Sikh***

Wonder if he carries a dagger with him as Sikhs are supposed to do, even if it is a little toy symbolic one.


14 posted on 03/29/2019 6:33:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

C’mon...the guy is in our country calling himself an American and is anti-second amendment. Toe nail clippers at best.


15 posted on 03/29/2019 6:46:57 AM PDT by afterhoursarmory
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To: freedumb2003

its actually 2 states - northern half watches New York City TV stations, routes for New York Teams and eats New York style foods

Southern half watch Philadelphia TV ,routes for Philly teams and eats Philly style foods


16 posted on 03/29/2019 7:08:03 AM PDT by njslim
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To: marktwain

New Jersey Gov’t - Not content with crapping up it’s own nest.


17 posted on 03/29/2019 7:11:10 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Wonder if he carries a dagger with him as Sikhs are supposed to do, even if it is a little toy symbolic one.

I wonder that too, given how often an AG is in government office buildings and courthouses.

18 posted on 03/29/2019 8:34:28 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks marktwain.

19 posted on 03/29/2019 10:41:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie)
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