New restrictions on carrying guns in New Jersey
2023.01.10 07:34
New restrictions on carrying guns in New Jersey
By Ray Johnson
Budrigannews.com – An early test of some states’ efforts to pass gun control measures in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year expanding gun rights nationwide came on Monday when a federal judge blocked parts of a recently passed law in New Jersey restricting where people in the state can carry guns.
According to U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb, the state’s new restrictions violated the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right to bear arms. She issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting enforcement of those bans while several people pursue a legal challenge to the law.
The law also prohibited transporting loaded guns in vehicles and carrying guns in public libraries, museums, bars, and restaurants without the owner’s explicit permission. Gun-rights advocacy groups and three individuals brought the challenge.
Other provisions of the law, which Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed last month, are not the subject of the lawsuit and remain in effect. Handgun safety regulations and stricter licensing requirements are two of them.
Murphy’s spokesperson, Tyler Jones, stated that the governor’s office would work to reinstate “common sense restrictions” after the judge struck them down.
In response to the Supreme Court’s June decision that the U.S. Constitution protects individuals’ right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense and that New York’s gun license law was struck down, the law was passed.
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The decision said that states could restrict guns in “sensitive places,” but that any restrictions had to be in line with the country’s long history of gun control. Monday, Bumb ruled that New Jersey’s restrictions were inconsistent with that custom.
