SAF Scores Major Legal Victory in New Jersey

[Sedalia Dave]

SAF Scores Major Legal Victory in New Jersey

 

 

“The Constitution leaves the States some measures to combat handgun violence. But what the Second Amendment prohibits the States from doing, and what the State of New Jersey has done here with much of Chapter 131, is to ‘prevent law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms.’ That is plainly unconstitutional,” Judge Bumb stated in her ruling.

 

The judge noted that the Bruen case necessitated the State to align its firearm laws with the Second Amendment. But, according to Judge Bumb, the State’s response, Chapter 131, overstepped its bounds and resulted in a law that would have alarmed Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, as it disarms law-abiding citizens, thereby worsening their situation while aiding the assailants.