NJ ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATS TO ATTACK

SECOND AMENDMENT

March 21, 2025.New Jersey Democrats are fast-tracking their election-year attack on Second Amendment rights.After ramming a series of anti-gun bills through a second committee hearing yesterday along party lines, Democrats are wasting no time and are rushing their gun ban blitz onto Monday afternoon's full Assembly agenda.Instead of answering for their failure to address issues that actually matter to the general public, Assembly Democrats are resorting to their tired old election-year trick of changing the subject and solving manufactured "problems" that aren't really problems at all.

CLICK HERE TO CONTACT ALL NEW JERSEY ASSEMBLY MEMBERS.TELL THEM TO OPPOSE ALL NEW GUN BILLS BEING PROPOSED ON MONDAY, MARCH 24.TELL THEM TO STOP ATTACKING SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS INSTEAD OF PUNISHING CRIMINALS, AND TELL THEM YOU WILL VOTE AGAINST ANY LAWMAKERS THIS NOVEMBER WHO ATTACK THE SECOND AMENDMENT .

The list of gun bills being voted on Monday is expected to include:

A.4975 creates a crime for possession of digital instructions to illegally manufacture firearms or firearm components. This legislation creates a crime even if someone never actually produces a gun or component. Simply having a digital file for a component on your computer will result in a presumption that you intended to illegally manufacture, and it will turn innocent gun owners into criminals.

A.4976 establishes the crime of reckless discharge. Discharging a firearm in New Jersey is already illegal unless done “for a lawful purpose,” which is an affirmative defense. This is nothing more than a swipe at concealed carry. Now, every time a firearm is used, even in legitimate self-defense situations, prosecutors will have more tools to harass law-abiding gun owners. There is also no exception for accidental discharges, and last-minute amendments yesterday presume that self-defense use of firearms is unlawful and place the burden on honest gun owners to prove that their conduct ina self-defense situation was legal.

A.1389 requires confiscation of ammunition and firearms components in response to domestic violence restraining orders or convictions. This bill applies to accusations, even false accusations, not just convictions. Current law already requires confiscation of firearms, but this bill is absurd as it would now require confiscation of components like spare grips, scope caps, cleaning kits, choke tubes, holsters and slings.

A.5345 mandates the use of Merchant Category Codes. This is nothing more than government sanctioned snooping that can be used to create a firearms registry or discriminate against gun owners and lawful businesses.

A4981 is the "gun owner gulag" on steroids -- it allowsimprisonment before trial for an unlimited amount of timewhen someone is merely accused of a firearms offense.If someone is just ACCUSED of a gun crime, the government gets to lock them up and throw away the key while they await trial.