FPC Challenge New Jersey’s Right-to-Carry “Justifiable Need” Law

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and California Gun Rights Foundation (CGF) announced the filing of an important amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Mark Cheeseman v. Glassboro, New Jersey Police Chief John Polillo, et al., which challenges the State of New Jersey’s “justifiable need” (i.e., “good cause”) law that functions as a de facto ban on carry licenses issued to law-abiding people. The brief was authored by FPC Director of Research and attorney Joseph Greenlee, a Second Amendment expert and historian. A copy of the motion and brief can be viewed or downloaded at www.firearmspolicy.org/legal.

The brief argues that the time has come for the Supreme Court to expressly hold that the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms for lawful purposes, including self-defense, outside the home.

“While we believe that the Supreme Court’s landmark Heller decision makes clear that the right applies with equal strength beyond the home, lower courts have taken advantage of the lack of express guidance from the Court to treat the Second Amendment as a second-class right,” Greenlee explained.

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