Governor Phil Murphy from New Jersey signed bill A4769 into law on Thursday, tightening gun restrictions in the state and triggering a lawsuit from the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Back in June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to require New York applicants to show “proper cause” for carrying a handgun in public. The ruling also invalidated New Jersey laws that restricted public carry to individuals who demonstrated a “justifiable need.” Soon after that, Murphy introduced A4769.
The bill prohibits people from carrying firearms in “sensitive places” across the state, which includes schools, nursing homes, hospitals, courthouses, child care centers, polling places, government buildings, restaurants and bars where alcohol is served, parks, beaches, airports, demonstrations, casinos, movie theaters, and other entertainment centers.
In addition, the bill also bans carrying guns on private property unless the property owner has sanctioned it. Such places include homes, churches, supermarkets, and shopping centers.
The bill was passed by the state Assembly last month along party lines with a vote of 42–29. This month, the state Senate passed the bill, once again mostly on party lines, with a vote of 21–16. No Republican lawmakers extended support to the legislation.
Gun Control
In addition to expanding the number of places tagged as “sensitive” where concealed carry is banned, A4769 also imposes several other harsh measures on gun owners.
The bill drastically raises the costs of obtaining permits and credentials for guns and expands the already rigorous state training requirements. It expects gun owners to acquire insurance despite the fact that it is not known whether such insurance is even available and legal.
A4769 denies carry permits by using subjective standards like “character” and “temperament.” It uses online and social media posts as valid reasons to deny permits. The legislation bans carrying a gun in one’s own car and at public gatherings.
The bill also creates a special class of public officials who can carry a gun without permits, and will also be excluded from being subjected to the no-carry restrictions of certain areas.
Individuals who have an outstanding arrest, who are subject to certain restraining orders, who violate restraining orders, and who are subject to voluntary admissions to hospitals or mental institutions are ineligible to obtain a carry permit.
Gun applicants must now provide four endorsements of character from non-related references. People who provide such endorsements will be interviewed by law enforcement officials to determine whether the applicant poses a threat to the public or themselves.
NRA Lawsuit
The NRA lawsuit criticized New Jersey for passing A4769 after having failed to suppress the “fundamental right to bear arms in public” through the now-dead “justifiable need” requirement.
“New Jersey has simply changed its approach from one unconstitutional law that allowed ‘no one’ to carry to another unconstitutional law that allows one to carry ‘nowhere,’” the lawsuit states.
“Notwithstanding the clear ruling of the United States Supreme Court, New Jersey simply does not want ordinary people to carry handguns in public—as is their fundamental right to do.”
The lawsuit asks the court to stop the enforcement of the provisions of A4769. Filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the plaintiff in the case is the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, which is a state affiliate of the NRA.
#1. Criminals DO NOT follow or obey the law!
Half of Philadelphia is in New Jersey, half in Pennsylvania, both socialist woke Democrat Party controlled States.
2021 marked Philadelphia’s worst year for killings on record. The city saw 561 homicides last year — its highest total ever,
2,332 people were shot in 2021, 80% of 2021 homicide victims were Black, while white victims accounted for 18%.
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~64% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?
One does not have to be very bright to see that the woke Democrats coddling the Black race isn’t working.
EVERYONE must be held accountable for their own actions and treated equally under the law, but this is not the agenda of the woke Democrats.
Accountability is a CUSS word to libtards.
Governor Phil Murphy part of George Orwell’s 1984 aka Big Brother!!!!!! Control! Control! Control! Of course, criminals will always have guns and what does one think will happen when criminals are not punished in New Jerseys “utopia” under Big Brother. More and more crime!!!!!!
Might as well issue permits to everyone no questions asked. Permit not worth much if every place in the state is deemed to be sensitive areas.
AND WHEN you need to get a permit to ‘have a right’, IT IS NO LONGER A RIGHT.. BUT a govt controlled privilege.
prohibits people from carrying firearms in “sensitive places” across the state,
Sensitive Places is where you need to have concealed carry the MOST!
Has made schools “sensitive places” where guns are prohibited, stopped any of these mass murders in the schools across the country?
Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee. I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy — it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You’ve stripped away our heritage,
You’ve outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question “Why?”
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
“Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation’s history.
Romans 1:28-32 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Especially when damn near, EVERY MASS SHOOTING< has occured in these "Gun Free zones"///
What’s most telling about this bill isn’t just the broad, sweeping restrictions, but the following sentence: “The bill also creates a special class of public officials who can carry a gun without permits, and will also be excluded from being subjected to the no-carry restrictions of certain areas.”
Will this “Special class” of public officials be required to present 4 character references? Will their on-line activities and social media posts be scrutinized to determine whether or not they’re fit to carry?
What’s to keep any of these “special” public officials from flipping out and committing a mass shooting? By the same token, what’s to keep a sociopath or psychopath from getting into such a position of authority and doing evil? I submit when people met Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dammer on the street, they had no clue just how evil and sick they were. Such people are masters at disguising their real intentions.
This bill should erase all doubt about protecting the general public – it’s really all about disarming the citizenry, so an out of control government can run roughshod over them.
I’d love to see someone propose a bill banning all public officials from carrying weapons, having armed guards, etc, for at least a week, maybe a month? If they truly had to live in fear for their lives, they might re-think some of their lame-brain ideas. After all, it never matters until it becomes personal.
Yea. WHEN the govt says THEY ARE Special, and don’t have to follow the same rules they set for US, you just KNOW THEY CARE NOT ABOUT WE the people…
Agreed! What’s the old saying? “Rules for thee, but not for me.” Sums it up perfectly.