Yesterday, New Jersey @GovMurphy signed an executive order that will prevent the state from doing business with gunmakers and sellers who do not take steps to keep guns from falling into the wrong hands. https://t.co/RWiENt2LTa
— Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) September 11, 2019
NEWTOWN, Conn. — -(AmmoLand.com)- The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms industry, released the following statement on New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s executive order that threatens to end business relationships with firearms manufacturers and retailers if they don’t adopt vaguely defined business practices.
“Governor Murphy’s executive order is a broad and open invitation to discriminate against firearms manufacturers and retailers. It will do nothing to curb illegal gun sales and will only serve to punish licensed and law-abiding small businesses engaged in the lawful commerce of constitutionally protected products. Furthermore, trying to regulate by coercion interstate commerce outside of New Jersey is clearly an overreach of the governor’s power and authority.
If Governor Murphy wants to work on real solutions to make our communities safer, he needs to work with the firearms industry. We conceived the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and our industry conducts an average of 38,000 new NICS checks daily. We know what works and what doesn’t, and we are continually working to improve and strengthen background checks.
The firearms industry also works with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to prevent straw purchases of firearms through our Don’t Lie for the Other GuyTM campaign. No one wants to stop the criminal misuse of firearms and ensure they stay out of the hands of criminals more than our industry. We also partner with ATF in Operation Secure Store to provide retailers with education and resources to secure their inventory from theft.
Governor Murphy wrongly sees member of the firearms retailers as contributing to the criminal misuse of firearms when in reality they are on the front lines of helping to prevent firearms from rolling into the wrong hands. They are part of the solution. Our industry stands ready and willing to work with Governor Murphy on real solutions, but our industry does not deserve to be vilified, threatened and discriminated against through meaningless regulations being proposed strictly for political motivations.”
About National Shooting Sports Foundation
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 10,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers. www.nssf.org
We need to flip the script!! The gun industry, ammo manufacturers, everyone in related industries (like body armor) need to UNITE and REFUSE TO DO BUSINESS WITH ANY CITY/COUNTY/STATE/FEDERAL GOVT THAT ATTACKS OUR 2A RIGHTS, AND THEIR AGENCIES. In this instance, that means no guns, no ammo, no armor, no nothing for NJ police agencies!
Great, no more guns for any police departments in NJ. See how long that would last if the gun industry had some balls to do that.
We need to know where companies in the firearms industry stand. If they are selling anything to NJ they are against us and our rights and we should stop buying from them. This is the same as what NJ is doing. Its time for the firearms industry to pick sides and be vocal about who they support. Hornady does no business with Walmart and recently stopped selling to NY because of Cuomo’s bullying of banks to stop doing business with the firearms industry. We need ALL in the firearms industry to take this stand.
Why such a menacing, not to mention an unethical pattern of conduct? The Federal Constitution is written in such a way that it is easily understood. Honor the Oath. Serve not Rule…
Governor Murphy is totally useless. His own party disagrees with a lot of things he wants to do. BTW, the NJ legislature is totally useless as well.
these moron libs keep releasing criminals thinking they have been rehabilitated and then tell us dont buy for the other guy, Theres hundreds or thousands of other ways to hurt people, why are you unleashing them on us governor?, your laws are preventing me from stopping them!
It’s New Jersey, I couldn’t care less. If they, the residents, don’t like what’s going on, then they should do something about it, but apparently, like in California and Chicago, the majority don’t care or actually want what they’re getting. I worry about and work hard to preserve my rights in my state (Arizona) and we have problems that arise, but we deal with them as they arise and don’t let them get out-of-hand. I wouldn’t waste money or effort on a lost cause any more than I’d buy a blind horse or an egg sucking dog.
The NSSF can protest all it wants, but the anti-gun mentality is an all-or-nothing game. The fact that firearms manufacturers and importers are prohibited by ATF regulation from selling to retail customers (one must go to a federally licensed dealer), is just ignored. It gets in the way of the narrative that guns are evil, the cause of crime and the people at the top of the chain are a big part of the problem.
Gun owners of NJ go to your employer and change you dependents to ten. You will have dramatically less taxes taken out of your paycheck which means the state will have dramatically less money coming in. They will not be able to pay its bills including the salaries of state employees
This is a peaceful and legal way to demonstrate your power. You will need to pay the taxes at the end of the year so put the money away in a separate account
I can think of some singers that I like that came out of New Jersey.