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THIS IS IT: SENATE COMMITTEE TO HEAR ANTI-GUN, ANTI-SPORTSMAN BILL PACKAGE AT SEPARATE HEARINGS 04/30 AND 05/02

 

It is critical that you attend in person in Trenton!

 

Buses will be available at locations statewide

 

Contact Senate President Stephen Sweeney and members of the Senate Law & Public Safety Committee immediately!

 

On Tuesday, April 30 and Thursday, May 2, the New Jersey State Senate Law & Public Safety Committee is scheduled to hear testimony on a new bill package that includes some of the worst attacks on firearms owners and sportsmen in state history.

 

The full package of bills has not yet been introduced, but based on the most recent draft legislation we have seen, the package includes:

 

- A ban on dozens of popular handguns and rifles used for hunting and target shooting, camouflaged as a fifty caliber ban.

 

- No firearms training, no Second Amendment rights: First-time applicants for FID cards and handgun purchase permits will be denied without proof of firearms training -- with anti-gunners sitting on the panel that sets the training requirement!

 

- 10-year jail sentences and $150,000 fines for parents who pick up their children at school while en route to or from hunting or target shooting, or whose vehicles inadvertently wander onto school grounds.

 

- Suspension of Second Amendment rights for anyone placed on a secret government list created by federal bureaucrats, even without charges being filed or conviction of any crime (no due process).

 

- Termination of all FID cards, which were supposed to be good for life.

 

- Replacement of FID cards and handgun permits with a privacy-invading data strip on the driver's license of every gun owner, flagging your status as a gun owner to anyone who can identify or decode the strip. This will result in an explosion of questionable vehicle searches, and could compromise your privacy to employers, banks, hotels, schools, stores, car rental agencies, and anyone else to whom you give your driver's license (or to whom it is lost or stolen).

 

- Ban on private firearms sales, even by persons already extensively background-checked, such as FID card holders and pistol purchase permit holders.

 

- New ammunition purchase regulations.

 

- Other ill-conceived schemes that target the rights of law-abiding citizens instead of punishing criminal behavior.

 

Although Senate Democratic leadership has been slower and more deliberate in approaching firearms legislation than the Assembly, and has sought input from Second Amendment and hunting groups, the final bill package speaks for itself and contains severe attacks on gun owners and sportsmen that are not rationally related to prevention of crime or another tragedy.

 

Additionally, Senate Democratic leadership has so far ignored proposals to address bona fide gun owner concerns, like enforcing the 30-day deadline for permit issuance, preventing honest citizens from suffering 10 year jail sentences for hyper technical possessory offenses, and creating a reasonable standard for personal protection outside the home.

 

One positive bill in the package seeks to protect gun owner information from wrongful public disclosure, as happened in New York, but does not go far enough in protecting the identity of gun owners. Another would re-open the compliance window to dispose of firearms banned by New Jersey's "assault” firearms law, but inexplicably deletes Assembly amendments that would have also allowed compliance for banned magazines and ammunition.

 

ANJRPC's full analysis of the bill package will be released in an upcoming alert.

 

PLEASE IMMEDIATELY CONTACT SENATE PRESIDENT STEPHEN SWEENEY AND ALL MEMBERS OF

THE SENATE LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE AND TELL THEM TO OPPOSE THESE ATTACKS ON GUN OWNERS AND SPORTSMEN, AND TO INSTEAD SUPPORT REAL SOLUTIONS TO GUN CRIME AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.

 

ADDITIONALLY, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU ATTEND ONE OR BOTH HEARINGS IN TRENTON IN PERSON NEXT WEEK AND HELP GUN OWNERS SPEAK WITH A THUNDEROUS VOICE, AND COUNTER ANTI-GUN LIBERALS WHO ARE PLANNING TO STAGE A COUNTER-PROTEST AND MEDIA SHOW.

 

Buses for both hearings are being organized throughout the state (including at Cherry Ridge) by NJ2AS. Please click here for details and to register. Also, if the hearing and overflow rooms fill up again like they did in February, please be prepared to participate in a rally outside the Capitol building (also being organized by NJ2AS).

 

ANJRPC will continue to press Senate leadership on this legislation, but your IMMEDIATE action can make the difference in our efforts. Please immediately weigh in with the legislators listed below, and please watch for upcoming alerts with additional details and bill analysis.

 

SENATE PRESIDENT STEPHEN SWEENEY (D3)

 

[email protected]

 

(856) 251-9801 office

 

(856) 251-9752 fax

 

MEMBERS OF THE NEW JERSEY SENATE LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE:

 

Donald Norcross (Chair) (D5)

 

[email protected]

 

Phone: 856-547-4800

 

Fax: 856-547-5496

 

Linda Greenstein (Vice Chair) (D14)

 

[email protected]

 

Phone: 609-395-9911

 

Fax: 609-395-9032

 

Nick Sacco (D32)

 

[email protected]

 

Phone: 201-295-0200

 

Fax: 201-295-8294

 

Christopher "Kip” Bateman (R16)

 

[email protected]

 

Phone: 908-526-3600

 

Fax: 908-707-4578

 

James Holzapfel (R10)

 

[email protected]

 

Phone: 732-840-9028

 

Fax: 732-840-9757

Anyone email or fax yet? What do you think, a few one liners or an essay? I’m thinking short, sweet and often.....

the revoking of FID cards........isn't that on the order of what they did in scotland? revoke, then make people turn their stuff in?

Does anyone have a link to the official agenda?

In my opinion, the official agenda matters little. Our elected officials have proven, read that again, PROVEN that they will try every insidious political trick to have their way here, All the promises to pro 2a organisations having input etc etc has all been lip service. I would NOT put it past them to present watered down versions to the public and then adding in the rest of the language at 11:59.

 

Its a simple fact. They do NOT want you their to testify. It impedes their ability to get away with what they are attemting to do. DO NOT let them trick you into not attending rallies and testimonies. Your presence is the last thing that they want.

Does anyone represent us? Anytime the democrats can write laws against us, why cant we have someone on our side with an equal number of proposals for laws we actually want? If you want people to show up give them an incentive besides always just being on the defensive. Compromise would at least get us something, as it is we are just slightly slowing the continual loss of what we have.

Does anyone represent us? Anytime the democrats can write laws against us, why cant we have someone on our side with an equal number of proposals for laws we actually want? If you want people to show up give them an incentive besides always just being on the defensive. Compromise would at least get us something, as it is we are just slightly slowing the continual loss of what we have.

There are lots of bills sponsored by people like MPC and Albano. Problem is, in a Democrat dominated assembly, they never even make it to committee.

 

What we need is an initiative and referendum process, like other states do, so we can force these to be considered. Then we could turn the tables on them and flood them with pro-2a bills.

 

One of Christie's campaign promises was to introduce such a process. Went nowhere.