USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- In Newark, New Jersey a crime is committed every 28 minutes, Citizens have a 1 in 190 chance of being the victim of a violent crime and they have a 1 in 47 chance of being the victim of a non-violent crime. Living in some southern neighborhoods of Newark will increase your chances of being a victim of violent crime to as high as 1 in 3.
Criminals in New Jersey enjoy doing their dirty work in a State that has the strictest gun laws next to California because most of the State’s population has been disarmed and rendered helpless due to Constitution-violating gun laws. Governor Phil Murphy is pushing for even more of those laws during his second term in office. Even though there are over 4500 sex offenders living in New Jersey, Governor Murphy is not wavering on his position to implement more gun restrictions that will undoubtedly put New Jersey Citizens in more danger by making them vulnerable. Murphy is taking advantage of the leverage he has with his Democratic-controlled Legislature as he makes another attempt at attacking the Citizens’ gun rights and their ability to defend themselves in the crime-ridden Garden State.
On June 3, 2015, New Jersey gun laws caused Carol Bowne to be stabbed to death by her convicted felon ex-boyfriend Michael Eitel while she waited for her handgun permit after filing police reports and protection orders. Carol feared for her life but New Jersey decided that it was best to keep her unarmed and helpless long after, the already dangerous 30-day waiting period, had been exhausted.
Governor Murphy is doubling down on more gun restrictions that will do nothing to stop criminals and killers and everything to put more New Jersey Residents in danger. As Democrats typically do, Murphy calls these gun restrictions “common sense” and says that these new restrictions will “keep guns out of the wrong hands.” Not to be outdone by his anti-gun peers, Murphy used the typical talking points when referring to his proposed ban on .50 caliber guns. He said “who can seriously argue these ‘weapons of war’ belong on our streets?” It seems the Governor has a thing for .50 caliber firearms. According to Newsmax, he is concerned with these guns because they “can take down helicopters.” Are we having a problem with people shooting helicopters out of the sky in Jersey?
The following is a list of the proposed bills:
- Require gun owners in the state to store firearms and ammunition separately in a lockbox or safe. It would also stiffen penalties for those who fail to do so. (A2215)
- Require gun owners who move to New Jersey to obtain a firearm purchaser ID card and register their guns within 60 days. (A1179)
- Require people who buy guns in the state to renew their purchaser ID card every four years and show proof of taking a course on safe handling and storage of firearms. (A993)
- Ban the future sales of .50 caliber guns in the state and require current owners of them to register them and pay a $50 fee. (A1416)
- Raise the age at which a person in the state is eligible to receive a firearms purchaser identification card used to purchase shotguns and rifles from 18 to 21. (A509)
- Require ammunition manufacturers and dealers to keep a detailed electronic record of sales and report them to the State Police. (A1302)
- Amend the state’s public nuisance laws to prohibit the gun industry from endangering the safety or health of the public through its sale, manufacturing, importing, or marketing of guns. (A1765)
- Mandate firearm manufacturers to, within a year, incorporate micro-stamping technology into new handguns sold in New Jersey to provide law enforcement with a tool to quickly link firearm cartridge casings found at the scene of a crime to a specific firearm, without having to recover the firearm itself. (A1462)
Executive Director of the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, Scott Bach said, “Not one of Governor Murphy’s schemes punishes gun crime, instead, every single one interferes with the Constitutional right of honest Citizens to defend themselves in an emergency.”
Alan Gottlieb, Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) Founder said: “Someone needs to tell Governor Murphy that a gun does not have a brain to hate with or a finger to pull its own trigger. He needs to support legislation that keeps violent criminals off the streets and stop attacking gun ownership for law abiding New Jersey people.”
Governor Murphy seems determined to push this package of gun control on the Citizens of New Jersey regardless of the data and information staring him in the face that tells him he will be putting good people in danger by doing so.
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The Pompous Ass knows very well what the statistics show and what the facts are. Simply put, he is another useless autocrat who seeks more control.
they need to take away his protection and let him be a victim too
Dems are in control..so they will be voted in..hense the attack on the 2A
Just in case you all have not been paying attention the democrats want to disarm all Americans to protect their agenda. What is the Agenda well as Shanghai and 30 million Chinese are locked down with few dieing most starving as prisoners of the communist regime. The largest port for goods in the world remains closed we Americans are about to watch our economy crumble. As the democrats have and continue to support a communist government for greed and the promise of power in this new American marxist regime. Those in Washington are responsible for the change of power in… Read more »
New Jersey’s obstreperousness on guns and, in particular, it’s refusal by Governor Murphy to listen to the truth on the subject, highlights what we’re up against. Sure to happen: if the pending 2A case from NY before the Supreme Court, is ruled for plaintiffs, the stubborn states will still resist.
The answer to the title of this article is, YES. And non residents also who visit or accidently get inside their borders.
Especially their state police are akin to jackpots.
It’s kind of hard to feel sorry for the people of New Jersey as it is for other democrat controlled states such as Illinois, California etc..
When these folks keep electing democrats to run their state government what do they expect, a magic belief in the constitution and the rights granted will be allowed.
Making more anti-gun laws is not the answer, but putting criminals away for the crimes they commit is.
I’m sick and tired of seeing honest gun owners paying the price for what the criminals do.
So why don’t all the democrats move to these States ? And we’ll enjoy the rest. Sounds fair to me. Oh that’s right they’re hypocrites.
Murphy and the entire state legislature are a bunch of total flaming assholes. The people of NJ get what they voted for. If ALL gun owners, hunters and others who own firearms would get out and vote they could stem the tide of asinine anti 2A legislation. I give NJ2A a great deal of credit for fighting as hard as they do. NJ has many wonderful folks who love the second amendment, but all those folks need to get other folks to come out and vote the asshole demorats out of office. Alas this doesn’t appear likely to happen. Until… Read more »
“Are Governor Murphy’s Gun Laws Putting NJ Residents in Danger?”
I say, I say, there Colonel Leghorn…..”Do bears shit in the woods?” A follow-on equally probing question.