Right to Carry, Digital Computer Files, Ammunition,

Accessories, All Under Attack Starting at Thursday Hearing

Tell All Lawmakers to Oppose!

February 18, 2025. It's an election year in New Jersey, and state Democrats are trying to distract public outrage away from the breaking national scandal over widespread tax fraud and abuse, and to change the subject instead. According to NJ lawmakers, the Second Amendment is really the problem and imminent action is needed to keep everyone safe. But in 2025, that tactic no longer works - and it is a miscalculation that could cost NJ Democrats dearly come election day.

This Thursday, February 20, at 10:00 a.m., lawmakers resume their attacks on gun rights with a committee hearing on a package of misguided gun bills listed here.

Among the bills listed are the following gems:

A4976 Styled as a "reckless discharge" ban, the bill is actually a hidden attack on right to carry by licensed carry permit holders, who can be imprisoned for discharging a firearm "unlawfully or without a lawful purpose" within 100 yards of an occupied structure or an educational institution (regardless of whether occupied). The bill can be used to second-guess every lawful exercise of self-defense, which will be nit-picked and declared "unlawful" to invoke the bill's severe punishments against law-abiding citizens with carry permits. No attempt is made to protect self-defense by licensed carry permit holders in the bill -- which could have easily been added. New Jersey already has an abysmal track record of contorting criminal laws to go after carry permit holders, including recently charging a carry permit holder under "red flag" laws for simply drawing (and not firing) his firearm when confronted (ANJRPC is currently suing the state over this). This new legislation is a thinly-veiled attempt to manufacture yet another false basis to charge carry permit holders for no good reason.

A4975 Makes it a crime merely to possess certain digital 3D printer files. It's not enough that existing law already bans the act of 3D-printing firearms; Under this over-the-top proposal, citizens can do hard time merely for having a digital computer file -- whether they use it or not. Merely possessing a computer file equals doing hard time.

A1389  Requires seizure of ammunition and firearms accessories like grips for those accused of domestic violence -- even if the allegations are fabricated. Like NJ's existing firearms seizure law, there would be no requirement that the allegations be true, and there is no consequence for fabricating allegations. And, accessories entirely unrelated to the function of the firearm, like grips, are to be seized as if they are a threat to anyone.

A4974 Machine guns are already prohibited under state and federal law. This legislation creates new crimes for possessing or selling a machine gun "conversion device," which could mean previously-lawful devices that cause a semi-automatic firearm to cycle more rapidly (rather than changing the way the trigger functions from semi-automatic to fully automatic). It also opens the door to prosecution of vendors from other states who sell devices lawfully elsewhere, but which end up in New Jersey.

Please immediately CLICK HERE to contact every member of the New Jersey legislature. Then copy and paste this paragraph below and send:

Dear Lawmaker: Please oppose the latest gun bills to start moving through committee this Thursday in the Assembly, and stop targeting gun rights to distract the public from real problems like the outrageous government waste, fraud, and abuse of tax dollars taken from the people, which has recently come to light. The people want real problems solved, this time is different, and politicians who continue to attack gun rights instead of punishing violent criminals are jeopardizing their own future re-election. Please oppose all misguided firearms legislation.