New Jersey Lawmakers Want to Slam Through More Gun Control During Lame-Duck Session

Anti-gun politicians in the New Jersey Legislature are moving swiftly to enact a package of draconian gun control during the current lame-duck session. 

NRA is urging citizens to take action to prevent these bills from becoming law. 

“These hastily and poorly written bills will do nothing to prevent crime and everything to inhibit New Jersey residents’ constitutional right to self-defense,” warns the group’s Institute for Legislative Action. 

“New Jersey has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, and rather than crack down on criminals, the Majority party is fixated on targeting the state’s law-abiding gun owners,” it continues.  

Earlier this week, the Assembly Judiciary Committee passed the following:

• A.1280/S.103 bans firearms .50 Caliber and greater.
• A.1292/S.1481 requires registration of handgun ammunition.
• A.3686/S.372 requires new residents to register firearms brought into the state. 
• A.5030/S.2169 requires mandatory training to get an FID card.  Renewable every four years.
• A.5647/S.3757 requires mandatory storage of firearms and renders self-defense obsolete.
• A.5787/S.3826 requires all new handguns to be equipped with microstamping.  This is nothing more than a clever way to block the future sale of traditional handguns. 
• A.6218 allows the Attorney General to bring cause of action for certain public nuisance violations arising from sale or marketing of firearms.

The full Assembly will likely consider the slate in the coming weeks and a separate Senate Committee will take up a vote on some of them this Thursday.

Gov. Phil Murphy has wholeheartedly endorsed the package. Earlier this month, the governor vowed to get something done before the next legislative session starts in January.

“Over the past four years, New Jersey has become a national leader on gun safety,” Murphy said in a statement on Dec. 2.

“We must continue to build on that progress and make our state safer for the over nine million people who call New Jersey home,” he continued. “Today, I am proud to further commit to this goal, and I hope to work with my Legislative partners to take this step by the end of this legislative session.”