According to Senate President Stephen Sweeney, the right to purchase a firearm under the new card could be electronically switched off by local police “if they have a suspicion or concern.” Under current law, Second Amendment rights can only be suspended after conviction of a serious crime – not based on mere “suspicion or concern.” The new approach turns the presumption of innocence on its head and violates due process.

 

 

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All of 2C:39 and 2C:58 turn the presumption of innocence on its head.

In the Glorious PRNJ all firearms are illegal unless you find yourself within one of the not-so-many exemptions.

 

 

 

2C:39-2.  Presumptions

      b.  Licenses and permits.    When the legality of a person's conduct under  this chapter depends on his possession of a license or permit or on his having  registered with or given notice to a particular person or agency, it shall be  presumed that he does not possess such a license or permit or has not  registered or given the required notice, until he establishes the contrary.

     L.1978, c. 95, s. 2C:39-2, eff. Sept. 1, 1979.  Amended by L.1979, c. 179, s. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1979.

 

So the fact that local popo can invalidate your FID without due process shouldn't come as a surprise to ANY of us.

Where do you think you live?? America??

Guess again.

America starts on the other bank of the Delaware River.

And it's on the move westward.

Damn you, Horace Greeley!

 

Guilty until proven innocent. Wow this just gets worse everyday.

I dont know if this fact has been driven home hard enough, if someone can publicly explain this and show the breach of legality of the laws it could kill the passing of it. Its different when we have debates with anti's of grey area of our rights but it is a solid line of due process you are innocent until proven guilty and this measure breaks it.

Ultimately it all has to be okay with the NJ Judiciary.

And that's where the problem lays.

Their interpretation of what is Constitutional is just as warped as the Legislature's non-adherence to their oaths of office.

The NJ courts have held the 30 day law on issuing FID and PPP doesn't mean what their words say.

They have also held that "justifiable need" is a reasonable standard to hold the people to.

Evil bastahds telling other evil bastahds that it's okay to define us as criminals in order to throw us in the dungeon for trying to live up to the First Article of the NJ Constitution.

 

It's almost like Walternate is in command and the sky is filled with dirigibles.

I hope they find a way to turn off the CCW permits carried by our State officials, since those folks in the State senate could be a threat.

This should be discussed here: http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php/topic/54686-s2723-revises-firearm-purchaser-id-and-handgun-purchase-permits-sweeney-norcross-weinberg/