New Jersey Governor’s Executive Order Tramples on Rights of Firearms Industry

By Ammoland

Yesterday, New Jersey @GovMurphy signed an executive order that will prevent the state from doing business with gunmakers and sellers who do not take steps to keep guns from falling into the wrong hands. https://t.co/RWiENt2LTa

— Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) September 11, 2019

NEWTOWN, Conn. — -(AmmoLand.com)- The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms industry, released the following statement on New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s executive order that threatens to end business relationships with firearms manufacturers and retailers if they don’t adopt vaguely defined business practices.

“Governor Murphy’s executive order is a broad and open invitation to discriminate against firearms manufacturers and retailers. It will do nothing to curb illegal gun sales and will only serve to punish licensed and law-abiding small businesses engaged in the lawful commerce of constitutionally protected products. Furthermore, trying to regulate by coercion interstate commerce outside of New Jersey is clearly an overreach of the governor’s power and authority.

If Governor Murphy wants to work on real solutions to make our communities safer, he needs to work with the firearms industry. We conceived the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and our industry conducts an …Read the Rest

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