New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently signed a new law that permits many former uniformed law enforcement officers to carry a firearm during retirement. Previously, only interstate, state, and local police officers, county sheriff’s deputies, corrections officers, and state or county park police officers were allowed to continue to carry their firearms into retirement. Now, […]
Gun Permit Appeal Case Successfully Handled in Morristown, New Jersey New Jersey law give a tremendous amount of discretion to local police chiefs in determining whether to grant an application to obtain a Firearms Purchaser Identification Card. The law allows such applications to be denied for various reasons, listed in N.J.S.A. 2C:58-3. Once an individual […]
As expected, New Jersey State Democrats have filed a lawsuit in an effort to block Governor Chris Christie’s recent regulations that make it easier to obtain a handgun carry permit in New Jersey. On April 3, 2017, the Democratic Legislature filed a complaint in the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, challenging the validity of […]
Democratic legislators in New Jersey are poised to do whatever it takes to block Governor Chris Christie’s recent measures to ease handgun carry permits in New Jersey. Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto (D-Hudson) said that going to court “may be the only recourse” NJ legislators currently have available to stop the handgun carry law. Similarly, Senate […]
On November 30, 2016, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law a bill that permits public and private schools and community colleges to hire armed, specially trained, retired police officers to provide security on school grounds. The new bill addressed specific concerns that some opponents of the bill had when it was first passed […]