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After the Third Circuit struck down New Jersey’s semi-automatic rifle and magazine bans, Trenton lawmakers turned back to a sweeping firearm-storage mandate. Professor Mark W. Smith explains why the proposal runs directly into the Supreme Court’s ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller.
New Jersey officials initially told firearm dealers that the Third Circuit’s ruling against the state’s semiautomatic-rifle and magazine bans would take effect July 31. The Attorney General’s Office now says July 31 is the rehearing deadline, with the ruling expected to become effective in August.
New Jersey’s attorney general and Senate president are attacking the Third Circuit after the en banc court struck down the state’s semiautomatic-rifle and magazine bans. Their public-safety rhetoric avoids the central problem: New Jersey failed to justify its restrictions under Bruen.
An en banc Third Circuit ruling invalidates New Jersey’s ban on semiautomatic rifles and magazines holding more than ten rounds. The decision creates the federal appellate split the Supreme Court will confront in Viramontes and Grant.
After JSD Supply and Eagle Shows entered Chapter 7 bankruptcy, New Jersey filed a new lawsuit seeking to hold founder Jordan Vinroe personally liable under the state’s gun-industry public-nuisance law.
A new Supreme Court ruling in Wolford v. Lopez may undercut New Jersey’s defense of its semiautomatic firearm ban by clarifying that “Arms” are protected at Bruen’s plain-text stage.
The office of New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport is reportedly sending subpoenas to firearms dealers across the state demanding records of Glock pistol sales…over the past ten years.
New Jersey’s Attorney General is demanding Glock sales records from dealers, raising privacy concerns and warnings from NRA-ILA and SAF over gun owner doxxing.
A SAF-backed lawsuit in New Jersey has expanded, alleging Bergen County officials used cohabitant concerns to confiscate firearms, revoke permits, and deny gun rights to lawful owners.
Virginia posted one of its highest monthly firearm background check totals since 2020 as Democrats advanced new gun control bills, while New Jersey saw concealed carry permit approvals continue to surge in the wake of Bruen.
John Petrolino has filed suit against the New Jersey State Police after officials denied his requests for anonymized data on retired law enforcement carry permit applications, denials, and appeals.
New Jersey is scrambling to defend its AR-15 and magazine bans after the Benson ruling struck down D.C.’s ban on magazines over 10 rounds, putting more pressure on similar laws.
Gun Owners of America and New Jersey gun owners are asking a federal court to strike down the state’s hollow point ammunition ban.
The court upheld the District Court of New Jersey’s decision to dismiss with prejudice all constitutional challenges to a state law that criminalizes the distribution of certain digital instructions or code that can be used to 3D-print firearms to unlicensed individuals.
While most people were focused on the holidays, New Jersey lawmakers pushed through a new package of gun control laws in silence…
Senators Booker and Kim recently introduced a federal licensing bill requiring government approval for gun purchases.
The announcement by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals that it has granted an en banc rehearing in cases challenging New Jersey’s prohibitive “sensitive places” law…could translate to bad news for anti-gunners.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to an en banc review of the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) challenge to New Jersey’s “sensitive places” firearms carry restrictions.
There are now a dozen municipalities in the Garden State that have decided to respect the rights of their citizens by not imposing onerous fees on them to exercise a constitutional right…
A governmental entity simply may not prevent a peaceable, law-abiding individual from possessing handguns and other firearms in the home, full stop…
New Jersey’s Attorney General Matthew Platkin is attempting to use the U.S. judicial system to export New Jersey-style gun control to the rest of the country.
The Third Circuit heard oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of New Jersey’s “assault weapons” and “large capacity” magazine ban.
An adult black bear wandered into a Dollar General store in Vernon, NJ, last month and promptly bit a woman. She had to be evacuated and hospitalized.
The previous ruling “blessed New Jersey’s effort to designate as ‘sensitive places’ nearly everywhere that ordinary human action occurs” and allowed the state to transform a “fundamental constitutional right into a mere privilege.”
The arguments put forward by the Trump administration is doing more to restore Second Amendment rights than any other administration.
Santos was part of the New Jersey governor’s elite armed protection detail. He was one of the “only ones” New Jersey allows to carry a firearm in places ordinary citizens cannot.
A three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit knocked down a challenge to New Jersey’s concealed carry permit regime by reinterpreting the Supreme Court’s Bruen opinion.
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals struck down key parts of NJ’s carry law, ruling that bans on guns in private vehicles, the default ban on private property, a liability insurance mandate, and a $50 fee all likely violate the Second Amendment. Gun-rights groups called the ruling a major victory…
“I’m tremendously disappointed with Mayor Thomas Gallagher, Council President William Boyce, Councilmember Ronald Binaghi Jr., and Councilmember Jin Yhu from Old Tappan. They voted against liberty in their town to defend a discriminatory and exclusionary policy.”
A NJ appeals court has upheld the state’s authority to hunt black bears, rejecting claims by anti-hunting groups. Citizens hunting & managing bear populations continue despite years of political & legal attacks.
