New Jerseys Governor Phil Murphy lashed out in response to a ten day old filing by the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, in the challenge to the state’s “carry-killer” Bruen response law. The 2022 law signed by Murphy eviscerated the ability of Jerseyites to exercise the Second Amendment and currently is sitting on the chopping block of a legal challenge.
One of the most egregious provisions of the law created new so-called “sensitive places” where carrying firearms is prohibited. New Jersey went well beyond the scope of what the high court laid out in its NYSRPA v. Bruen ruling and seems destined for the dustbin of history.
In his tirade, Murphy fingered the nefarious “gun lobby,” pontificating that what they really want more guns on playgrounds and claiming that the filing date of the plaintiffs’ brief falling when school is in session is somehow relevant.
The highly miffed Murphy stopped “eating the ass out of a bear” long enough to say . . .
At a time when parents across New Jersey are sending their kids back to school, I am furious that the gun lobby is trying to dismantle our state’s strong gun safety laws by advocating for more guns in playgrounds and youth sports games. These extreme right-wing organizations will not relent until guns are allowed everywhere, especially places with children.
Mad Murphy played the kids card and then proceeded to cast law-abiding citizens of New Jersey as shameful lobbyists. Those terrible people Hizzoner is is referring to is the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, a member organization made up of New Jersey gun owners and Second Amendment supporters. ANJRPC is far from the gun lobby boogeyman that Murphy tries to claim.
Painting the state’s gun-grabbers as heroic saviors, Murphy pronounced, “While greed and fanaticism continue to fuel the gun lobby, public safety will always guide our decisions.”
OK then. If Murphy wants to accuse ANJRPC and their members of being “greedy” for wanting to defend their civil liberties, then so be it.
I am proud that the vast majority of our law restricting concealed carry of firearms in sensitive locations has been upheld by the Third Circuit and am grateful to everyone who worked on that law, including Senate President Scutari and Speaker Coughlin, for helping to keep our residents safe. We will remain steadfast in defending our nation-leading gun safety laws and maintaining our position as a national leader in protecting families from gun violence.
There’s more than a little false bravado beneath the pseudo-tough guy proclamations. While the state managed to get the Third Circuit to stay the injunction blocking the law, the Third Circuit has a big hurdle to get over considering the opinion written by Federal District Court Judge Bumb. All they did was make a knee-jerk, likely political move.
The large swaths of “sensitive locations” that Murphy wants to keep carry-free zones don’t include the coveted car carry prohibitions the legislature ramrodded down the throats of gun owners, nor does it include the need for permission from owners prior to going on private property that’s open to the public.
Murphy can click his heels over the current enforcement of a ban preventing arms at all parks, forests, etc., under the control of towns, counties, or the state, as well as beaches and a laundry list of other specific places. We still have very effective carry in the state of New Jersey, as much as he doesn’t want to admit it. And Murphy’s provision extorting permit holders in the form of a forced purchase of a non-existent insurance policy is also off the table, at least for now. And Murphy’s prospects at trial aren’t good.
What does NYSRPA v. Bruen say about those sensitive locations? During arguments for the preliminary injunction in District Court, attorney Daniel Schmutter pointed out that . . .
When you read Bruen carefully and you read the “sensitive place” section carefully, and I think we talked about this at the TRO stage, there is a difference between Bruen’s discussion of the Heller dicta, schools and government buildings, and the following sentence in which they actually identify actual historical sensitive places: legislatures, courthouses, and polling places. …
As we stand here, there’s still nothing in the record to support anything other than legislatures, courthouses, and polling places.
The Bruen opinion given us the following, which is a dagger aimed at the heart of what Murphy says he’s so proud of . . .
Respondents’ attempt to characterize New York’s proper-cause requirement as a “sensitive-place” law lacks merit because there is no historical basis for New York to effectively declare the island of Manhattan a “sensitive place” simply because it is crowded and protected generally by the New York City Police Department.
While he’d never show it publicly, Governor Phil Murphy is in panic mode. He knows this law is on the endangered species list. That has as much with the fact that Paul Clement’s name is on the briefs as it does with ANJRPC’s complaint or its timing.
Murphy and his gun-grabbing accomplices in the legislature are about to get spanked by the same attorney who took down may-issue permitting in the Supreme Court. Clement is ready to go another ten rounds and smash these vindictive, clearly unconstitutional Bruen response laws. That’s why the best Murphy can apparently muster is bluster and has been reduced to demonizing the plaintiffs and their motives.
Oral arguments concerning the stay and requests for a preliminary injunction at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals are scheduled for October 25 in Philadelphia. Given the expeditious nature in which this case has been moving through the system, we may have a decision by year’s end. Stay tuned.
Tyrants only understand force
Ultimately yes but it is probably a good idea to paint them into a corner so that lash out in retarded frustration and show their ass enough that the average American realizes this as well otherwise we are rather outnumbered in this knowledge. And yes this is my optimistic best case scenario the other options get grim rather fast.
RE: “The large swaths of “sensitive locations” that Murphy wants to keep carry-free”
murphy’s sick need to Gun Control law abiding citizens in sensitive places is along the lines of the democRat Party kkk and the nazi party needing to Gun Control sensitive places that involved Freed Slaves in America and Jews in nazi germany.
Debbie go home your drunk, but seriously this seems a bit off topic from the rest of this thread did you mean to post elsewhere?
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Gunm laws disarm the law abiding.
Gunm laws annoy me. I hate scaping them off my shoes.
Send the fool a letter – I just did.
https://nj.gov/governor/contact/all/
You have the right To Remain Silent
Everything you say CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU
You’re probably right. I still have a parking ticket in New Jersey that I never paid. Told the judge that my car was in US government secure lockup at the time the ticket was issued, and I was out of the country, so I wasn’t going to pay his silly ticket.
They’ll probably extradite me after the letter I just wrote. Life in prison – for a parking ticket.
If there was two or more in the car when you got the ticket, that would be racketeering/gang related, right?
After all, NJ is close to NYC.
They are not panicking, and will continue to pass more bad law when this round is over. It’s simply lawfare and they don’t care about crime or civil rights, they must disarm their political opponents at all costs. They are just impatient. As the saying goes, they can’t fulfill their plan if we are armed. They being the royal they, or more accurately the “oligarchical socialist” they… 23 year Goldman Sachs executive + dispatched to the EU to collect the Greek austerity by Obama, then rewarded with the title Gov.
“…what they really want (is) more guns on playgrounds…”
Damned Right!! I want to have the means of protecting children on a playground from those who would do them harm. It is as irresponsible to disarm adults in such a location, leaving free rein to thugs and kidnappers, as it is irresponsible to disarm the public in any other location in the state of New Jersey or in any other state, for that matter.
Public “playgrounds and parks” are frequent hangouts for child predators, but oddly, not many kids are abducted by ‘strangers’ at public playgrounds and parks. However, many kids, over age 6 but under age 14 mostly (especially girls age 10 – 12), are ‘assaulted’ in some manner (e.g. approached by a predator offering money or ‘gifts’ in exchange for sexual purposes or touched by the predator, physically hit and injured) by ‘strangers’ at ‘playground’ areas in public parks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyRdca5bFD0
That (eww) bear quote… what does that even mean?
If my mind is in the right gutter, isn’t bear slang for a big hairy dude that likes other dudes. So eating the ass out of a bear is not what wants to visualize. Meh, leftists.
Got stuck in moderation purgatory on my last comment.
you left out the critical part of the headline quote: “A tale told by an idiot.”
Labeling a place as “sensitive” does not automatically make it safe. Infact, quite the opposite.
Perhaps if some New Jersey subject would kick Murphy in his sensitive places… I’m sure that’d be a better start.
If the Govor and his henchmen can’t obey Federal laws they need to stop making frivolous laws an be sanctioned.
He is a “MASShole” carpetbagger to NJ-Goldman Sachs millionaire. He has aspirations of running for POTUS and is trying hard to make NJ California East. I really hope NJ loses big in this case…
“While he’d never show it publicly, Governor Phil Murphy is in panic mode…”
no he isn’t. He doesn’t care one bit. If the law stays, he touts it as a victory. If it falls, he blames ‘extremist judges’ and campaigns on being so “tough on guns” that it takes Justice Thomas himself to stop him.
He has literally nothing on the line. If anything, it helps him in the primary. And, unfortunately, there’s nothing to hold him accountable legally for taking a crap on the Constitution.
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