Posted on 12/26/2020 4:00:03 AM PST by marktwain
New Jersey's tyrannical Attorney General, Gurbir Grewal, is adding to his dubious list of anti-Second Amendment activism. On 15 December 2020, Smith & Wesson sued Grewal, asking for relief, for using his office to violate the First Amendment, Second Amendment, as well as the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment protections of the U.S. Constitution.
Defense Distributed won a significant victory in September of 2020, with the Fifth Circuit agreeing Defense Distributed could sue AG Grewal in Texas. The case is ongoing and alleges Grewal violated Defense Distributed's First Amendment rights.
The Smith & Wesson lawsuit is about a subpoena issued on October 13, 2020, by Grewal, alleging fraud on the part of Smith & Wesson, for advertising with claims such as Smith & Wesson products are safe, or they enhance a person's lifestyle.
1. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to free speech “no matter whether the government disagrees with that speech. Benjamin Franklin articulated it this way: “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government . . . . When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.”1 Indeed, governments throughout history have abused their power by punishing speech to suppress dissent and harm political opponents.
2. Following in the abusive footsteps of these repressive regimes, the New Jersey Attorney General has taken a series of actions to suppress Smith & Wesson’s speech, and with the intention of damaging Smith & Wesson both financially and reputationally. The most recent such action is the issuance of an administrative subpoena (the “Subpoena”) on October 13, 2020 that allegedly seeks evidence of consumer fraud relating to advertising – but in reality, it seeks to Amendment agenda that the Attorney General publicly committed to
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"suppress and punish lawful speech regarding gun ownership in order to advance an anti-Second"
Paragraph 2. makes sense when the line is put in place.
The editing accident was an artifact of copying the court document with a pdf scanning program.
I wish them the best. NJ govt is rabidly anti-2nd Amendment. Even many republicans there are anti-gun. But the good Deplorables who live there could use a win or two.
If the courts are honest.
Law suits like this might have a chance.
NJ AG Grewal must be an avowed socialist...............
A G Gruel.
Might have something to do with New Jersey's long history of Mafia activity.
These hoodlums in these crime families whackin people all over NJ for decades. I guess folks just thought getting rid of guns might help...of course we all know otherwise. Pass strict gun laws and only the thugs have guns.
Interesting read:
https://gangsterreport.com/new-jersey-top-mafia-murders/
Exactly the opposite.
Organized crime hates an armed citizenry. That was why New York instituted the Sullivan law in 1911. New Jersey followed shortly thereafter.
An additional reason many politicians are in favor of more gun laws: it’s an opportunity to be seen as doing something for the public safety, whether it works or not (in most cases it doesn’t).
Gotta get some good publicity, get reelected if you wanna rake in the bucks and act like a big shot.
I wish he could be sued personally as well, but understand the widespread implications.
In my prior town when I first applied for a firearm purchase card I was told the cop who processed the forms only did that on Thursdays. Come back then. So I did. Oh darn, he took Thursday day off this week, come back next week. This dance went on for a few weeks before I accepted that I was never going to get a permit in this town unless I made a real stink, maybe threatened a lawsuit. Most people aren't going to do that. I moved one town over shortly afterwards and they made me get letters from three people who were not relatives or coworkers stating how they knew me and that I wasn't insane or a criminal and they had to get those letters notarized and send them themselves by certified mail, I could not drop them off for them. Make it as hard and inconvenient as possible at all times.
But this sort of 'resistance' crap isn't public and they won't get credit for any sort of public safety measure for imposing them. But they DO get the satisfaction of putting their boots on our necks though.
Ya don’t say..how bout that.
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