Posted December 22, 2015 3:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

(courtesy nj.gov)

Christie endorses easing New Jersey gun rules app.com reports. The subhead: “Panel says NJ’s rules can be clarified to make state more hospitable to gun owners. Christie endorses ideas, which draw criticism from both sides of gun issue.” Translation: window dressing. The report by the Firearm Purchase and Permitting Study Commission, a three-member body created by Christie the night before he announced his presidential bid, lets Christie claim . . .

he’s “doing something” for gun rights in the Garden State. More precisely, that he wants to do something for gun rights, but the legislature won’t let him! The second part of that assertion being beyond dispute. Anyway, let’s go to that report . . .

So the Firearm Commission agrees with New Jersey’s highest court that the right to keep and bear arms protected from government infringement by the United States Constitution, incorporated by the U.S. Supreme Court’s McDonald decision, is a privilege, not a right. See the addition of the word “reasonably” – a distinction without a difference – this “change” represents no change whatsoever.

The Commission laughably helpfully provides three theoretical examples of theoretical petitioners who should theoretically be granted a carry permit …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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