NJ Wants To Jack Up Cost Of Exercising Constitutional Right

By Tom Knighton

Constitutional rights are just that, rights. You don’t have to beg your government to allow you to exercise them, you just exercise them. Otherwise, they become privileges, and since rights like the right to keep and bear arms are natural rights we have because we’re living, breathing humans, trying to turn them into privileges becomes a huge problem for many of us.

Not that New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy cares about any of that.

Instead, he’s on a personal crusade to require people in his state who want to buy a gun to have to fork out a whole lot more money.

Gov. Phil Murphy is once again taking aim at firearms sales in New Jersey, asking lawmakers to significantly raise permit fees and enact new taxes on guns and ammunition.

The governor on Tuesday renewed a call for New Jersey to raise fees for permits and licenses needed to buy and sell guns in the Garden State, which have remained the same since the 1960s.

“It is actually cheaper to get a permit to purchase a handgun — two bucks — than it is to get a dog license in many of our communities,” Murphy said during <a target="_blank" …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms