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    By John Petrolino 

    The Attorney General’s office did not comment, so I followed up Monday night, and again Wednesday March 20th. I stated to Platkin’s office that I’d be happy to wait for a comment, but if there’s no comment, to let me know. Platkin’s office replied with, “Thanks for your email. The office declines to comment,” from an unsigned individual.

    Platkin’s office is now aware of this issue.

    Getting the information that more than half of the denials are based on practices that go against several U.S. Supreme Court opinions should be an eye opener to the executive branch in New Jersey. It’s the attorney general’s duty to only execute sound law and has issued policy letters and guidelines in the past clarifying the state’s position on bad law.

    What Platkin’s office is planning on doing about issuing authorities upholding a provision of the law that’s clearly a violation of civil liberties per Heller, Buren, et.al. is not known. Considering this data is new to everyone, we can only speculate that after this topic is fully explored, these illegal denials will be remedied swiftly by Platkin’s office. 

     

    Full article Here:

    https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2024/03/21/data-shows-majority-of-nj-carry-permit-denials-based-on-verboten-subjective-standard-n1224269?utm_source=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=00ea90fbf351bbfd29c96affd26f2dca49954a466ec9e3e8139f308bd8a1cb93

     

    Full article here: 

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    N.J. Attorney General Releases Data on Permits to Carry; Proves Us Right!

    By John Petrolino | 10:01 AM | March 15, 2024

    https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2024/03/15/nj-attorney-general-releases-data-on-permits-to-carry-proves-us-right-n1224199?utm_source=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=00ea90fbf351bbfd29c96affd26f2dca49954a466ec9e3e8139f308bd8a1cb93

     

    As always, John provides us with an excellent article, this one showing the twatwaffles of Trenton wrong again.

    The award for the most inaccurate goes to Colonel Callaghan of the New Jersey state police. A typical bureaucrat.

     

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    Today our hideous governor is urging all businesses in the state of New Jersey to post a sign no firearms allowed in his best effort to contradict the Bruen decision. What a genuine piece of shit.

    I would suggest all businesses that follow his strongly worded advice to instead put a sign up. There are no firearms here. All criminals are welcome and have.it.

     

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    10 minutes ago, charleslee said:

    I don’t get it. Small fish grouping to assimilate a huge fish big enough to swallow a great white but what’s the correlation to society pray tell? AI, politics, evolution??? 

    "We The People" are lots of small fish vs the  Great White is our Tyrannical corrupt government. Kabeesh?

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    New Jersey Governor Seeks to Price Residents Out of Their 2A Rights

     
    By John Petrolino | 1:31 PM | March 06, 2024
       
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    The Garden State is never void of things to report on. As a matter of fact, covering the 2A news there is like drinking from a firehose. When you have a freedom-hating governor like Phil Murphy as the chief executive, bigots like Assemblyman John McKeon in office, and incredibly obtuse lawmakers like Joe Danielsen allegedly writing laws, they make covering how awful they are all too easy. Recently Governor Phil Murphy, D-N.J., released his budget proposal for the state and he aims to make the Second Amendment inaccessible to all but the rich.

     
     

    The budget suggests a number of changes to the price tags associated with the firearm related paperwork that’s necessary to exercise a civil right. The governor's proposal did not breakdown the numbers, but rather stated in the “other revenues” section:

    To avert the need for further spending reductions, the budget assumes the adoption of modest increases to fees charged by the Bureau of Securities, firearm permit and license fees, and raises the HMO assessment from 5 percent to 6 percent.

    Some colleagues over at NJ.com did some serious groundwork and repeatedly reached out to the governor's office asking them to elaborate on what “modest increases to [...] firearm permit and license fees” meant. I reached out to S.P. Sullivan, the senior reporter who broke the story, and he said that a spokesperson eventually sent him the following information about the proposed rate increase:

    • Firearms Purchaser Identification Card Application - $100 (Current Fee - $50) 

    • Permit to Purchase Application - $50 (Current Fee - $25) 

    • Duplicate Firearms Purchaser ID Card - $50 (Current Fee - $0)

    • Wholesale/Retail Dealer Employee License Application - $40 (Current Fee - $5)

    • Retail Firearms Dealer Licenses Initial/Renewal Applications - $500 (Current Fee - $50)

    • Retail Firearms Dealer License for Corporations for Partnerships Initial/Renewal Application - $500 (Current Fee - $50)

    • Manufacturer/Wholesale Dealers of Firearms Initial/Renewal Application - $1,500 (Current Fee - $150)

    • Manufacturers/Wholesalers for Corporation or Partnerships Initial/Renewal Application - $1,500 (Current Fee - $150)

    • Permit to Carry Initial/Renewal Application - $400 (Current Fee - $200) 

    • NICS Check for Firearms Purchase - $45 (Current Fee - $15, $16 if it includes a handgun)

    More here:

    https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2024/03/06/nj-governor-seeks-to-price-out-2a-n1224093?utm_source=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=00ea90fbf351bbfd29c96affd26f2dca49954a466ec9e3e8139f308bd8a1cb93

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  17. Posted

    Better Article The Asbury Park Press

    NRA, its ex-CEO found liable

    LaPierre ordered to repay group over $4M

    Jake Offenhartz

    ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK – The longtime head of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, misspent millions of dollars of the organization’s money, using the funds to pay for an extravagant lifestyle that included exotic getaways and trips on private planes and superyachts, a New York jury determined Friday.

    The jury ordered La-Pierre, 74, to repay almost $4.4 million to the powerful gun rights group that he led for three decades. It also ordered the NRA’s retired finance chief, Wilson Phillips, to pay back the group $2 million. Jurors additionally found that the NRA omitted or misrepresented information in its tax filings and violated New York law by failing to adopt a whistleblower policy.

    LaPierre sat stone-faced in the front row of the courtroom as the verdict was read aloud.

    New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat who campaigned on investigating the NRA’s not-forprofit status, declared the verdict a “major victory.”

    “In New York, you cannot get away with corruption and greed, no matter how powerful or influential you think you may be,” James said in a post on X. “Everyone, even the NRA and Wayne LaPierre, must play by the same rules.”

    The outcome is the latest blow to the powerful group, which in recent years has been beset by financial troubles and dwindling membership. La-Pierre, its longtime face, announced his resignation on the eve of the trial.

    NRA general counsel John Frazer was also a defendant in the case. Although the jury found that he violated his duties, it didn’t order him to repay any money.

    The jury found the NRA violated state laws protecting whistleblowers who raised concerns about the organization, a cohort that included the group’s former president, Oliver North.

    The penalties to paid by LaPierre – the jury actually found him liable for $5.4 million but determined he’d already paid back a little over $1 million – and Phillips will go back to the NRA, which was portrayed in the case both as a defendant that lacked internal controls to prevent misspending and as a victim of that same misconduct.

    James also wants the three men to be banned from serving in leadership positions at any charitable organiza-

     

    tions that conduct business in New York. A judge will decide that question during the next phase of the state Supreme Court trial. Another former NRA executive turned whistleblower, Joshua Powell, settled with the state last month, agreeing to testify at the trial, pay the NRA $100,000 and forgo further involvement with nonprofits.

    James sued the NRA and its executives in 2020 under her authority to investigate not-for-profits registered in the state.

    She originally sought to have the entire organization dissolved, but Manhattan Judge Joel M. Cohen ruled in 2022 that the allegations did not warrant a “corporate death penalty.”

    The trial, which began last month, cast a spotlight on the leadership, organizational culture and finances of the powerful lobbying group, which was founded more than 150 years ago in New York City to promote rifle skills and grew into a political juggernaut that influenced federal law and presidential elections. Before he stepped down, LaPierre had led the NRA’s day-to-day operations since 1991, acting as its face and becoming one of the country’s most influential figures in shaping gun policy.

    During the trial, state lawyers argued that he dodged financial disclosure requirements while treating the NRA as his personal piggy bank, liberally dipping into its coffers for African safaris and other questionable expenditures.

    His lawyer cast the trial as a political witch hunt by James.

    LaPierre billed the NRA more than $11 million for private jet flights and spent more than $500,000 on eight trips to the Bahamas over a three-year span, state lawyers said.

    He also authorized $135 million in NRA contracts for a vendor whose owners showered him with free trips to the Bahamas, Greece, Dubai and India, as well as access to a 108-foot yacht.

    LaPierre claimed he hadn’t realized the travel tickets, hotel stays, meals, yacht access and other luxury perks counted as gifts, and that the private jet flights were necessary for his safety.

    But he conceded that he had wrongly expensed private flights for his family and accepted vacations from vendors doing business with the NRA without disclosing them.

    Among those who testified at the trial was North, a one-time NRA president and former National Security Council military aide best known for his central role in the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s. North, who resigned from the NRA in 2019, said he was pushed out after raising allegations of financial irregularities.

    After reporting a $36 million deficit in 2018 fueled largely by misspending, the NRA cut back on longstanding programs that had been core to its mission, including training and education, recreational shooting and law enforcement initiatives. In 2021, it filed for bankruptcy and sought to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, but a judge rejected the move, saying it was an attempt to duck James’ lawsuit.

    Despite its recent woes, the NRA remains a political force. Republican presidential hopefuls flocked to its annual convention last year and former President Donald Trump spoke at an NRA event earlier this month – his eighth speech to the association, it said.

     

     

    https://asburyparkpress-nj.newsmemory.com/

     

    16 minutes ago, Scorpio64 said:

    Who does WLP owe the money to?  Will the court do the right thing and give the money back to the victims, the NRA members, or will the dems pocket the loot for anti-gun programs and $400 hotels for illegal immigrants?

    Back to the NRA>

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  19. Posted

    1.What do you call a pantry full of lesbians?   

    A licker cabinet

     

    2. What do you call an Eskimo lesbian?

    A  Klondyke

     

    3. What do you call two lesbians in a  canoe?    

    Fur Traders.

     

    4. What do you call a lesbian with long fingers?   

    Well Hung   

     

    5.  What do you call lesbian twins

    Lick-a-likes.

     

    6.  What's the difference between a Ritz cracker and a lesbian?    

    One's a snack cracker; the other's a crack snacker.

     

    7.  What do you have when you've got 50 lesbians and 50 govt workers?    

    100 people that don't do Dick.

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  23. Posted

    4 hours ago, ESB said:

    We are seeing the chilling effect of allowing legislators to write clearly unconstitutional laws knowing that it would take years and millions and millions of dollars to change it and that there would be no recourse against them, allowing them to do it over and over again.  They are weaponizing this process against law abiding citizens.    

    The NJ legislators were warned when writing and voting on the Carry Killer Bill that it was not constitutional and that they would not be able to find the required historical precedence to back it up.  The legislators said they promised they could, but never did. Not even close.  Parts have already been found to be unconstitutional just as they were warned.  Those legislators who wasted our tax payers money and violated our constitutional rights in order to push their agenda need to be held accountable and personally responsible for the liabilities.  Something needs to be done as they cannot be allowed to continue to write clearly unconstitutional laws with impunity.  

     

     

     

    1 hour ago, CMJeepster said:

    Something does need to be done, but never will.  Hell, we can't even pump our own gas.  49 other states can, but us, nope.

     

     

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