Posted on 05/18/2023 6:20:08 AM PDT by CFW
A federal judge has blocked sections of New Jersey's new concealed carry law that prohibits firearms in "sensitive" areas following a legal challenge from gun rights groups.
In the ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Renee Marie Bumb issued a preliminary injunction barring the state from enforcing sections of a law preventing licensed firearm owners from carrying guns in government buildings, libraries, public transportation and daycare centers, among other locations.
"The Constitution leaves the states some measures to combat handgun violence," she wrote. But what the Second Amendment prohibits the States from doing, and what the state of New Jersey has done here is to prevent law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms. That is plainly unconstitutional."
A lawsuit filed in December by the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs challenged the state's law, claiming it "flagrantly and intentionally" violates the Second Amendment and a landmark 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision that affirmed a right to carry firearms for personal protection.
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Eventually the court will have to rule that the 2nd amendment applies everywhere and that it is no different than the 1st amendment, all laws restricting it are null and void. They might offer that the only legit course of action by any federal, state, and local government is to propose and act on amending the constitution. And good luck with that.
Agreed. They can keep the gun world upside down over and over.
Related article:
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/05/17/new-life-for-the-second-amendment-in-new-jersey-n70564
“New life for the Second Amendment in New Jersey”
What needs to happen is:
1. make All CCW licenses national. or, go constitutional carry, no license national.
2. Eliminate the in state ONLY requirement to buying guns.
If you are NOT a prohibited person. You should be able to buy ANY gun, in a FTF transaction with an FFL.
(background checks and waits determined by states). But as a Ma (licensed) resident. I Should be able to buy a pistol in Florida or whatever state from an FFL and take it home with me from that establishment.
Great ruling.
Hochul in NYS did the same exact thing, I believe that also was struck down but still in some legal limbo.
The lunatic asylum they call the Legislature in Maryland went further than New Jersey in their “sensitive” areas. These morons passed a law that the dimwit governor signed that prevents self-defense in virtually any location in the state except a single family home.
A person would need express permission from store owners, individuals, businesses etc. to carry a firearm.
Maryland was forced to follow the Bruen Decision and became shall issue last year. In 6-8 months, over 100,000 citizens began carrying firearms. State Police testified before the lunatic asylum that there have been ZERO incidents. ZERO.
Yet, the fools still shoved it through and Governor Stepn Fetchit dutifully signed it.
Within minutes, several gun groups filed multiple lawsuits.
People’s Republic of New Jersey…….the Karen state.
btt
“Eventually the court will have to rule that the 2nd amendment applies everywhere and that it is no different than the 1st amendment, all laws restricting it are null and void.”
You’d think it would be that simple. Yet so far SCOTUS has, for the most part, seemed to refuse to take up 2A cases.
But, hope does spring eternal, as they say. Much of what is going on in the country, 2A, immigration, equal application of the law, unlawful/unconstitutional executive orders/departmental regulations, could be (at least temporarily) resolved with the SCOTUS making strict rulings based on the Constitution.
Maybe . . .
If gun ownership and carry-ship of law abiding citizens were such a problem, there would be bodies all over the place, y3t for centuries, law abiding citizens have carried guns all over the nation with no issues. Instead we have centuries where the vast majority of law abid8ng citizens have carried guns wherever they went and never once used them except in self defence or for recre a tonal reasons
Th3 only problem we face in America is that criminals with guns both illegal and illegally who abuse the right to own. Punishing law abiding citizens for the crimes of illegals is unconscionable- every bit as much as punishing every driver for the crimes committed by drunk drivers.
With over 40,000 gun laws on the books nationally, and another 100,000 or so state regulations on guns, it is enough- far too much Infact. If none of those laws are “sensible gun laws” then get rid of them because they aren’t doing anything but punishing law abiding citizens while allowing criminals to skate when They are charged due to liberals protecting criminals while punishing law abiding citizens.
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