New Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)- Governor Phil Murphy released a budget proposal including another attempt to massively increase fees for gun permits, and to impose excise taxes of $1.4 million and $3.2 million respectively on firearms and ammunition sales.
A similar draconian increase in firearms permit fees was proposed by Governor Murphy last year but was not accepted by the legislature. Only time will tell whether that outcome will be repeated in 2019. Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs is closely monitoring the budget process as it unfolds and is prepared to take legal action to protect gun owners if necessary.
Said ANJRPC Executive Director Scott Bach: “Governor Murphy’s outrageous new proposal punishes law-abiding gun owners for the acts of criminals and madmen, chills the exercise of Second Amendment rights, and unfairly discriminates against lower-income populations. If the legislature doesn’t reject this proposal again, as it did last year, we are prepared to take legal action.”
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NJ definitely has their own dictator. I wonder how that feels but not enough to find out first hand. There has to be enough conservative voters they can send this power hungry creep down the road or out to sea, which ever has the least amount of possible tracking. On second thought, if he is there that means he is not trying to destroy someone else’s life so just keep him there and feed him donuts.
I remember reading about S&W, which operates out of Springfield, MA talking about this.
It’s tough for them because on the one hand, gun owners pressure them to leave. But on the other they feel an obligation to their workers to stay. Not all would be able to relocate if the company moved.
Rock and a hard place
Get a rope!
Lead the sheep to slaughter. Worked in 1939 in Europe. I’m not a firearms freak but I do own a few. Been
in two wars and I like it when some pimple face person tells me what they will allow me to do or own.
Just like cigarettes the people will go underground, bootleg.
The better question is why would ANY reputable manufacturer SELL to or provide service to any government agency in New Jersey? As gun owners we can exert enormous pressure on manufacturers of firearms and aftermarket parts. Why aren’t we letting it be known, across the country, that if you support anti-gun regimes like NJ & NY we won’t support you?
Say, isn’t New Jersey an island of the coast of North Korea? And isn’t new Jersey the headquarters of the Mafia? I wonder how many of these new Jersey politicians have mob figures for friends and campaign donors.
GREAT REASON TO MOVE OUT OF NJ!!!
Move to INDIANA where all your 2A rights will be respected, up to and including TAKING UP ARMS AGAINST UNLAWFUL USE OF POLICE POWERS!!
Indiana welxomes ALL gunowner refugees from socialist states like NJ and NY!!
The idiots thought that Christie was bad, Just like Pa those idiots there thought Corbett was bad and they got Wolf in and look how that’s going, the virus is spreading!!!
Sounds like a great reason to move away from New Jersey. Let the Liberals have it and while we’re at it, let New Jersey become the “go to place” to relocate Muslim refugees and all suspected MS-13 gang members who migrate to the US. Let those wonderful Socialists have their multiculturalism to the max.
Jason Milker, that’s how it started over 240 years ago only a little north of NJ tax on a tax! Why do you think the Fed Excise Tax is buried on tire sales today, it used to be tire price, excise tax, then sales tax, I got in several fights about that years ago, i had 2 sets of tires removed because of the way the tire store charged the taxes,they did the tire price excise tax together,then charged the state sales tax on that total, tax on tax!!!!!!