NJ Can Take Your Guns if You Pose a Safety Risk A new law in New Jersey enables family and household members, as well as police officers, to ask a judge to take someone’s guns away if he or she represents a threat to themself or others. Similar to Red Flag laws that exist in […]
Don’t Risk being Arrested: When it Comes to New Jersey Gun Laws, Ignorance is not a Valid Defense The State of New Jersey has some of the most extreme gun laws in the country. If you do not understand them fully or clearly, you can be charged with a crime and face a very serious […]
The New Jersey Attorney General just entered the ongoing war over untraceable guns. On Monday, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal filed a lawsuit against a company that plans to publish instructions on how to create untraceable guns using 3D printers. The lawsuit, filed in Essex County Superior Court in Newark, NJ, cites Defense Distributed’s conduct as creating a […]
Gun violence not only kills and injures hundreds of people every year in New Jersey, but it also extracts around $1.2 billion from the Garden State every year. The cited amount is an estimate produced by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and included in a report: Economic Cost of Gun Violence in […]
On February 28, 2018, New Jersey lawmakers advanced a half-dozen gun bills to tighten the state’s already-strict firearms laws during a hearing touched off by the tragic deadly mass shooting that occurred at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The proposed bills introduced during a nearly five-hour-long hearing packed with legislatures included the following: One […]