Category: New Jersey

It looks like a few lawmakers have decided it’s still okay to publicly support hunters in Trenton.

New Jersey’s nearly 1,000,000 anglers, hunters and trappers are claiming a historic day. They are referring to the creation and first official meeting of the New Jersey Angling and Hunting Conservation Caucus (NJAHCC), a bipartisan assembly of political leaders and recreational outdoorsmen and outdoorswomen dedicated to advancing the state’s conservation interests.

The NJAHCC was initiated and organized by Senator Stephen M. Sweeney (Democratic Majority Leader) at the suggestion, and with the cooperation, of the New Jersey Outdoor Alliance. The Caucus is comprised of a total of 26 senators and assemblypersons.

Hopefully these lawmakers will also vote the right way on gun issues.  I haven’t looked up their grades or voting records yet.  If they aren’t gun-friendly yet, this is one way gun owners can approach them.

Unfortunately, gun owners in New Jersey have a long way to go because 26 lawmakers in both chambers isn’t very many when there are 120 legislators in total.

The vote did not happen today in the Senate.  At this point, that’s all the information I have about it.

The New Jersey Senate is having a floor vote today on S-1774, which will ration folks in New Jersey to no more than one handgun purchase permit per month.  Given New Jersey’s gun laws already require you to obtain permission from the police to purchase a handgun, a process that can often take more than a year, this is pretty ridiculous.

If you live in New Jersey, you should call your State Stenator now.  Bryan Miller has graciously provided instruction on how to contact their office.  Of course, you’ll want to tell him or to vote NO on S-1774, not yes.

I’ve gotten word that it’s passed out of committee, and will head to a floor vote.  More to come later.

It’s up for a committe vote in New Jersey on December 8th.  Scott Bach has this to say:

Unfortunately, a bill pending in the State Senate and up for committee vote 12/8 (S1774) is a bad dose of old medicine. It’s a proposal to ration the Constitutional right of law-abiding citizens to own handguns beyond the existing regulatory thicket, which already slows exercise of those rights to a trickle. It ignores violent behavior and known sources of illegal trafficking, instead restricting only persons investigated and pre-certified as acceptable to own firearms. Even mainstream media recognize the ineffectiveness of this approach.

He goes on to describe how utterly worthless this law is going to be in light of New Jersey’s requirements to even purchase a firearm.  Bryan Miller is pushing for this law just because he can.  No sane person believes that criminals are following New Jersey’s draconian gun regulations to get guns, rather than buying them on the street.

CemeteryCAS points to an article in the Trenton Times talking about the ban on firearms over a certain caliber that’s been up for debate in New Jersey.  Interestingly enough, I shoot indoor silhouette on Thursdays with the guy that wrote the article:

In response to calls, faxes and emails, on Nov. 17 the New Jersey Assembly delayed passage of A2116 (banning most firearms of .50 caliber or larger) and instead is in the process of amending the legislation in an attempt to respond to gun- owner concerns. The amended bill could be considered by the full Assembly as early as December. With no statistics to justify such a ban, and all the negative things that it would do, we can only hope that the state legislators will have a case of common sense and scrap the bill.

Trenton is itching to ban something. That’s just how the roll over there.  Time has passed, and it’s time to screw gun owners once again.  Bryan Miller demands it!  But we’ve killed this before, and we might be able to kill it again.

Kurt Hoffman finds some ridiculous assertions about the New Jersey ban on .50 caliber firearms.  The vote that was scheduled for last night has been postponed to December, according to ANJRPC:

In response to your calls, faxes, and emails, the New Jersey Assembly on November 17 delayed passage of A2116 (banning most firearms of .50 caliber or larger) and instead amended the legislation in an attempt to respond to gun owner concerns. The amended bill could be considered by the full Assembly as soon as December.

The amendments are currently under review and further alerts will be forthcoming. However, no amount of tinkering can “fix” a gun ban, and A2116 remains fundamentally flawed legislation because it bans handguns and long guns based on the size of the hole in the barrel instead of punishing criminal behavior.

Please continue to contact your Assembly members and oppose A2116. Their contact information is available here.

Hopefully they’ll find better things to do, like fixing the gaping holes in the state’s budget.

Scott Bach opines on New Jersey’s A2116, .50 caliber firearms ban:

Many hunting and historical firearms fall into this category, so A2116 would ironically ban Revolutionary and Civil War flintlocks and muskets that won the very freedom that the legislation seeks to take away, not to mention popular hunting rifles. It could also ban a truly evil scourge of society that shoots 100+ caliber projectiles: marshmallow guns.

Read the whole thing.

From ANJRPC:

On Monday, November 17, the New Jersey Assembly is scheduled to vote on A2116 — legislation banning most firearms over .50 caliber.  Though previously amended in an attempt to address gun owner concerns, the legislation still bans many popular hunting guns, historical firearms, and large bore target firearms, based on alleged public safety concerns.  Ironically, the legislation bans many of the guns that won the very freedoms the bill seeks to destroy, including some Revolutionary War and Civil War guns and their replicas.

A2116 makes the fundamental mistake of banning guns based on the size of the hole in the barrel rather than punishing criminal behavior.  It treats law abiding citizens who choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights like potential criminals.

Please immediately email, call, and/or fax your Assembly Members and urge them to oppose A2116!  Their contact information is available here.

While the rest of us are worried that gun control is back, it never really left in New Jersey.  The relentless hammer pounds on in The Garden State.