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"Lawmakers promised that Corzine's Firearms Task Force would deliver a meaningful exemption for honest gun collectors and competitors, who were not the target of the law. Instead, they rammed through a largely useless and offensive scheme requiring registered gun owners to beg further permission and show why it is not 'feasible or practical' to ration their Constitutional rights every time they wish to make an exempt purchase – a nearly impossible standard to meet," said Bach. "Lawmakers blatantly broke their promise and turned the Task Force into a Task Farce when it came to protecting the Constitutional rights of honest citizens. Their actions forced us to sue, and have now jeopardized the very existence of their feel-good law."

The lawsuit is based on a federal statute that pre-empts state and local laws regulating the sale of certain firearms. The new law runs directly afoul of that statute because of the way New Jersey’s ultra-strict laws sweepingly define firearms. The suit also asserts claims based on the failure of the State Police to implement procedures under the new law, as well as the unlawful rationing of handgun permits by individual municipalities. A copy of the complaint is available at http://www.anjrpc.org/NJ_OGM_Complaint.pdf

New Jersey’s one gun a month law was passed by the legislature in June by a single vote, despite overwhelming evidence that it could be easily circumvented by criminals, failed to address real sources of trafficking, and targeted only law-abiding citizens. Gun rationing laws passed in other states have either been shown ineffective or repealed.

Ironically, the New Jersey law ignores known sources of New Jersey gun trafficking, like the Fedex gun theft ring that stole hundreds of handguns from legal shipments in 2008 and distributed them illegally on the streets of Jersey City and Newark. The law only regulates conduct by law-abiding citizens who have been thoroughly investigated by law enforcement and certified by the State as acceptable to own firearms.

via www.anjrpc.org