On November 25th, Howell, in Monmouth County, became the 12th municipality in New Jersey to refund all or substantially all the fees required to obtain a permit to carry. The list now includes towns in seven counties across the Garden State. This joint initiative has been led by NRA,New Jersey Firearm Owners Syndicate, and theCitizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Under NJ law, holders of a New Jersey permit to carry a handgun must pay $200 every two years, with $50 paid directly to the New Jersey State Police and $150 paid to the municipality that issues the permit. Those high fees were a result of New Jersey’s response bill to the 2022 landmark decision in the NRA-backed case ofNYSRPA v. Bruen. NJ’s so-called ‘carry killer bill’ that was passed in December of 2022 quadrupled those fees from the pre-Bruenlevels. In addition, the bill attempted to declare nearly the entire state a gun-free zone. These high fees are a central part of NRA’s case against the NJ Attorney General, Siegel v. Platkin (read more here!) | 
