| MONDAY: ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER BILL THAT WOULD KILL RIGHT TO CARRY & MORE https://www.anjrpc.org/ |
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| October 14, 2022.On Monday, October 17 at 10:00 a.m., the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider A4769– legislation designed to do an end-run around the U.S. Supreme Court’s ground-breaking Bruen decision and destroy right to carry in the Garden State, among many other things. Listen to the hearing by clicking here at 10 a.m. on Monday, October 17.Find Assembly Judiciary Committee and click to listen. Among many other things, this legislation would impermissibly: -Ban carry in common public places by labeling them as “sensitive places.”Includes parks, beaches, restaurants, theaters, stadiums, arenas, and many other common public places.;-Ban carry inside one’s own car;-Bans carry at public gatherings;-Ban carry on all private property automatically, unless the property owner specifically posts notices specifically allowing it;-Significantly increase fees for purchaser credentials and carry permits, discriminating against low-income citizens;-Mandate liability insurance(which may not even be available) as a pre-condition to exercising carry rights;-Mandate a new training requirement beyond the already-difficult one that has existed for many decades;-Allow towns and cities to invent their own unique and inconsistent rules banning carry;-Limit carry to holster-only, with retention strap (no purses, fanny packs, briefcases, standard holsters without strap, or other recognized modes of on-body or off-body carry);-Use prior speech (like online posts) as a basis to deny purchase and carry credentials;-Allow denial of credentials based on purely subjective factors like someone’s “character” or “temperament.” PLEASE IMMEDIATELY CLICK HERE TO CONTACT EVERY NJ LEGISLATOR. Tell them to PLEASE VOTE NO ON A4769 /S3214ATTACKINGRIGHT TO CARRY IN VIOLATION OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S BRUEN DECISION.THE SUPREME COURT HAS SPOKEN, AND RIGHT TO CARRY MAY NO LONGER BE DISRUPTED OR INFRINGED BY STATE LEGISLATURES OR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.ALSO,MICRO-MANAGING METHODS OF CARRY, AND DENYING PERMITS BASED ON PRIOR SPEECH AND “CHARACTER,” ARE ILL-CONCEIVED AND UNLAWFUL. |