New Jersey – -(Ammoland.com)-This afternoon, Governor Christie announced that his administration has formally adopted his historic 2016 police regulations incrementally expanding right-to-carry to those facing serious threats, notwithstanding a series of procedural maneuvers by anti-gun lawmakers trying to kill those regulations since May of last year.
Outraged by even the slightest change empowering citizens to protect themselves, anti-gun lawmakers last year fast-tracked bills to kill the new regulations before they were even formally adopted. An obscure provision of the New Jersey Constitution allows the legislature to unilaterally invalidate regulations which conflict with legislative intent.
But the legislature has never expressed any intent over what precisely constitutes “justifiable need” to carry a handgun – that has been interpreted by the State Supreme Court, and the new Christie regulations are entirely consistent with that interpretation. Also, the legislature failed to comply with key technical requirements needed to invalidate the regulation, dooming their effort to failure.
“We applaud Governor Christie for adopting this new regulation despite the efforts of anti-gun lawmakers to kill it,” said ANJRPC Executive Director Scott Bach.
“The Right to Bear Arms necessarily includes the right to self-defense with a firearm outside the home. Although 43 states recognize that right, New Jersey remains one of a handful of backward states that apparently prefer their citizens to be victims – except for legislators, who themselves enjoy the armed protection of State House security details. New Jersey’s days denying right to carry to its citizens are numbered.”
Police owe no duty to protect individual citizens – a troubling doctrine repeatedly affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. That means citizens are on their own in an emergency, yet those wishing to take responsibility for their own safety are blocked from doing so by New Jersey’s absurdly and unconstitutionally restrictive carry law. In the era of increasing terror attacks, it is all the more important that citizens be empowered to defend themselves in an emergency. Governor Christie’s newly adopted regulations represent an incremental improvement, allowing those facing “serious threats” to qualify.
About Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs: The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, Inc. is the official NRA State Association in New Jersey. Our mission is to implement all of the programs and activities at the state level that the NRA does at the national level. This mission includes the following: To support and defend the constitutional rights of the people to keep and bear arms. To take immediate action against any legislation at the local, state and federal level that would infringe upon these rights. Visit: www.anjrpc.org
Tha state of New Jersey needs to pull their head out. I used to be a resident and move to New York to retire and. Oath myself and my wife both got our carry permits as we do have a lot of land with Large animals and my wife is a realtor who shows large property with all different people . We all have the the right to keep and bear arms! Have the Senators and the Congressmen/women do away with their armed body guards and see how they would react going about with a person that does not carry.… Read more »
The fact that New Jersey was a one of the original 13 colonies that led the charge for freedom, is not lost on me. These anti-gun legislators are an insult to the memory of those brave people who fought and died for our liberty. Thomas Paine, writing to religious pacifists in 1775: “The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The… Read more »
Not nearly enough but I’ll give the Gov. credit for attempting to inject some common sense into our ludicrous “may issue” permit system.
SIEMPRE HE CREÍDO,QUE CUANDO UN GOBIERNO O ESTADO,NO LE PRESTA LA SEGURIDAD NECESARIA A SU POBLACIÓN,PORQUE NO PUEDE,PORQUE NO DEBE,O PORQUE NO QUIERE,HABILITA AL CIUDADANO A QUE SE DEFIENDA,BASÁNDOSE EN EL ELEMENTAL PRINCIPIO DE PRESERVACIÓN DE SÍ MISMO,DE SU FAMILIA Y DEL RESTO DE LOS CIUDADANOS EN PELIGRO,POR LA ACCIÓN DELICTIVA
Wow. Did Christie finally grow a pair? This is a big step for him. (It still doesn’t make up for Frenching Obama after Sandy.)
Greg,
“…don’t want to be bothered with having to remove or maintain their government officials?
Have you ever been to New Joisey? On election night, with less than 1% of the vote was counted, NJ went to Hitliary. But, even in this 10-1 environment there is still a good number of us fighting the good fight. Please see our 2-year CCW lawsuit at TPATH.org/SAPPA.
Christie is not perfect but he certainly is getting better every day. Since the NY Sullivan Law was written to promote crime by Tim Sullivan, a leader of the Irish Five Points Gang, it became the pattern for organized crime cities. You have to have a need and the government has unlimited discretion to deny or approve. In NYC, MAFIA hit men and women can get a permit, but rival gang members can be denied. Of course common citizens without millions for lawyer cannot get a NYC carry permit. NYC doesn’t recognize a NY State license, let alone a Kansas… Read more »
Obviously the sheeple of New Jersey and the other Six States are ignorant of their state’s constitution having a mechanism within for removal of corrupt officials that are otherwise infringing their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms? It’s either that or why they were maintaining their complacency their elected and appointed officials remove those powers from your state constitution thereby leaving the sheeple totally harmless to their elected or appointed Masters! It’s either that or the citizens are too busy watching The Walking Dead or some Housewives of New Jersey slut-show and don’t want to be bothered with… Read more »