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New Jersey Senate Committee Set to Vote on Flawed “Handgun Purchaser ID Card” Legislation

National Rifle Association

Charlotte, NC --(Ammoland.com)- This afternoon at 2:00 p.m. today, Monday December 6th, the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee is scheduled to hear S2190, sponsored by State Senator Fred Madden (D-4), which directs the State Police to establish a “handgun purchaser identification card” which would permit the sale, transfer and delivery of handguns between cardholders and retail dealers only.

This legislation is apparently Senator Madden’s effort to pander to gun owners after his late-night tie-breaking vote flip that resulted in passage of Jon Corzine’s handgun rationing law in 2009. Unfortunately, the legislation does not go far enough and rubs salt in the wound by failing to exempt those who obtain the card from the one gun a month law. Senator Madden has squandered an opportunity to rectify his past actions and is seeking only a partial solution to New Jersey’s antiquated and unconstitutional gun laws.

S2190 does not eliminate the current paper form of “permit to purchase” but creates a bifurcated system run by the State Police in which paper permits must still be issued for some transactions, including private transfers, which cannot be made with the new card. The legislation has other troubling aspects, including use of an undefined, subjective standard to qualify for the new card (applicants must somehow prove themselves to be persons “of good character and good repute in the community in which they live,” a vague standard found elsewhere in NJ gun law that is in need of reform).

Senator Madden is insistent on pushing this bill with little opportunity for consultation and discussion with the National Rifle Association and the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs.

Please contact the members of the Committee and encourage them to either amend S2190 or hold it until the issues and concerns of gun owners can be properly addressed.

Senate Law & Public Safety Committee

• State Senator John Girgenti (D-35) (973) 427-1229
• State Senator Nicholas Sacco (D-32) (201) 295-0200
• State Senator Andrew Ciesla (R-10) (732) 840-9028
• State Senator Donald Norcross (D-5) (856) 547-4800

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Senator Fred Madden Of New Jersey No Friend To The Constitution
WARNING VOTERS: Turn-coat Gun Banning Senator Fred Madden was the lone vote that sold out NJ Gun owners rights in spring 2009.

NJ Gun Banner Senator Fred Madden

New Jersey

Trenton, NJ - -(AmmoLand.com)- In spring 2009, Senator Madden cast the single vote that limited the Second Amendment rights of New Jersey gun owning residents when he worked with Gun Banning Governor John Corzine to pass a gun rationing bill.

Madden who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 4th Legislative District was once consider a friend of the constitution but now is clearly on the side of anti gunners.

Under the direction of Governor Jon Corzine (D) and with little notice to the public to ensure that New Jersey sportsmen and gun owners were not prepared to defend their Second Amendment rights from gun rationing schemes; the New Jersey State Senator, Fred Madden, tuned his back on the state police and law abiding gun owners and voted YES to bill S1774 “One Gun-A-Month”.

As passed, this bill will prohibit an individual from purchasing more than one handgun within a 30-day period.

It is unclear at this point what Madden traded with Corzine to sell out NJ gun owners but looking at his history Senator Fred H. Madden, Jr. has repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on issues through the National Political Awareness Test when asked to do so by Project Vote Smart.

New Jersey voters need to take a stand against Senator Fred Madden and vote him out of office to show politicians that we will not stand by and let our constitutional rights be stripped from us.

Vote No for Senator Fred Madden when running for re-election in 2011.

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