New Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)- Today, New Jersey Second Amendment Society received Judge Hurd’s order denying NJ’s motion for summary judgement, granting NJ2AS’ motion for summary judgement, and subsequently ordering the State of NJ to provide New Jersey Second Amendment Society with unredacted copies of Attachments A, B and C to the 2005 New Jersey State Police Firearms Applicant Investigation Guide within 30 days.
It has been 8 years since we first filed our lawsuit to gain access to the guide. Here are some of the highlights:
- NJ2AS compelled NJ to admit that the guide is the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for all municipality police departments regarding the processing of firearms permit applications and the issuance of permits. This proved invaluable during Operation Establish Compliance, where NJ2AS was successful in getting nearly 30 separate townships to drop their illegal additional requirements and, in the process, our undercover videos and recordings caught the attention of the Christie Administration and eventually led to FARS, NJ’s automated permitting system.
- During our first appeal, NJ2AS, remarkably, in conjunction with the ACLU, was successful in forcing the State of NJ to revise its regulation exempting Law Enforcement SOP’s from disclosure under OPRA. The regulation was a component of the codification of Governor Christies’ Executive Order 47. The regulation was revised to only exempt SOP’s or parts of SOP’s that would cause harm if released.
- New Jersey Second Amendment Society lost at the superior court level and was denied the entire guide, but then won on appeal. The case was remanded back to the original judge with instructions to give us a redacted copy of the guide, based on their ruling and the new regulation. NJ2AS was awarded over $100,000 from the court for legal fees.
- Back at the superior court, the redactions were in two parts. The first part was content deemed to be investigatory in nature, and therefore exempt from OPRA. The second were the attachments which were letters from the AG’s office containing guidance. These letters were deemed to be “attorney client privileged” and therefore, exempt from OPRA.
- NJ2AS appealed. The “investigative procedure” portion was upheld and the “attorney client” portion was remanded back to the superior court.
- At our third appearance at the superior court level, Judge Hurd, out of patience and unwilling to be overturned a third time, granted our motion for summary judgement.
If anything can be learned from our recent victory, it is that NJ2AS absolutely will not stop, ever, until all unconstitutional infringements on our right to keep and bear arms in NJ are gone. We will seek out and expose every violation, every person who is complicit in those violations and every government entity that participates and/or covers them up. We will bring into the light the negative impact of NJ’s poorly worded and over-criminalized legislation. We will use any and all legal means available to do so.
The State Police now has 30 days to provide NJ2AS the attachments in unredacted form. We will share them as soon as we receive them.
Please click here for the two guides we have been provided:
- Link to 2000 New Jersey State Police Firearm Investigative Guide
- Link to redacted 2005 New Jersey State Police Firearm Investigative Guide
Please join, renew, or donate to NJ2AS so we can continue the fight! Anyone that joins, renews or donates will automatically be entered into our gun giveaway! We will be giving away a Modern Materiel AR15 from our sponsor Modern Materiel! Also, the winner of this rifle will receive a free 3 Hour training session from Joe Savio of Modern Materiel/G S T, where they will learn the safety and operation of the AR15.
Anyone who donates $20 or more will be automatically entered into the giveaway. Also, anyone becoming a proud card-carrying member of NJ2AS or renews their membership will automatically be entered into the giveaway. All NJ2AS Frontline donors will be entered into each giveaway automatically. Current Frontline Donors have already been entered into the giveaway.
Enter the giveaway by clicking here to become a member or donor!
About the New Jersey Second Amendment Society:
New Jersey Second Amendment Society – Our mission is to promote the free exercise of Second Amendment rights within the community and Legislature of New Jersey, to educate the community regarding the enjoyable, safe, and responsible use of firearms, and to engender a sense of camaraderie and fellowship among the members and their families. Visit: www.nj2as.org
Brennan people who advocate for draconian laws (remember Prohibition) without any understanding or knowledge scare me. Did you know that in the run up to Prohibition at least fifty tons of propaganda calling for banning liquor (and jailing people who would not comply I assume ) were cranked out every month by a dry organization. Gun haters cry like babies that Congress is dominated by pro gun forces yet they spew forth Pravda-grade propaganda with no regard for the facts, they are. 1. Too stupid to use rational logic 2. Don’t care about facts and or logic as long as… Read more »
anti-2a d-suckers: fu, tell someone who gives a s**t
Reminds me of California: It’s so sad that little league wins over administrative details like this are touted as major victories. Every bit helps, I suppose, but dang 8 years and how many dollars just to get the reasons for your denial explained seems crazy.
It takes a special kind of stupid to think criminals are going to obey gun laws
Cookie those so called assault weapons can save your life. When anarchy strikes such as riots there is no one to protect you but yourself. Those evil AR 15s come in real handy. Back when the LA riots broke out over Rodney King many of the Korean Store owners were able to save their property and their lives because they had AR 15s. No one has the right to interfere with my 2nd Amendment rights.
I did not need anyone but myself to obtain my concealed permit in North Carolina.
Why is NJ requiring an applicant to have character references? Like I’m not going to bring my BFF”s with me?
NJ residents have no right to protect themselves while criminals do their thing.
For Cookie, please learn from a little history. How do the numbers of people killed by random violence compare with the numbers killed by their own governments? Organized power has proven incalculably more dangerous than random violence, which is the whole reason why individuals must never let themselves be deprived of the means to resist it.
I grew up amongst neither Democrats nor Republicans ( I’ve since learned that they’re actually both the same), I grew up, and was raised by just people who do not trust the government. I have since been forced to move to Maryland, to an area that’s supposed to be a bastion for good, honest, country people who are independent and hard working, the Eastern Shore. Maryland has been violated as much as a $2 whore but they cant seem to come together for anything, not even something they claim to cherish as much as their freedom, they’re too self absorbed,… Read more »
In NJ I was denied my application for a firearm permit. The reason that they denied me because I made 52 calls in 37 yrs. to report suspicious activity to the police. I passed all criminal, mental and standard background checks. Because I was denied a firearm permit it created a record that would deny me the right to bear arms in every other state. I hired an attorney at $1,500 and it took one additional year to finally get my NJ Firearm Permit. No one should be denied 2nd Amendment for “Neighborhood Watch” because the police are paid to… Read more »
Thank you NJ2AS!
WELL DONE.