Confusing N.J. gun laws deny some ex-cops right to carry [More]Why, I'm ... outraged!
Let me put this one right at the top of the ol' priority list!
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Friday, February 05, 2016
We're the Only Ones Denied Enough
Let me put this one right at the top of the ol' priority list!
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I understand all the issues regards "carve outs" for LEO...but wanted to add for what it is worth...World class competitive shooter Bruce Piatt was on Guntalk radio last year. He was a 30 year LEO from NJ. Once he retired he was whining that he no longer could own his guns used in competition. So he upped and moved. NJ is sooo screwed up.
http://www.guntalk.com/site.php?pageID=15&newsID=681
http://guntalk.libsyn.com/guntalk-02-22-2015-part-a
Imagine that! He was treated like most in NJ, without any particular consideration for what he once did for a living.
Perhaps he should challenge the relevant NJ laws all the way to the SCOTUS?
What I find perplexing is that there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that establishes differing classes of citizens with differing rights. Instead, it could be argued that those who rights are restricted are not citizens.
In the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, SCOTUS Judge Taney wrote of Dred Scott's petition to be considered a free man:
"It would give to persons of the negro race, ...the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, ...to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased ...the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went."
So tell me how this NJ law (and the laws in many states) is in compliance with the rights of a U.S. citizen? Do we now have less rights than we did then?
I have personal knowledge UMDNJ is truly in "indian country" as its a frequent destination in my son's employment in the medical field. He, ( and most of his more aware co-workers) don't like going there and have evolved various stratagems to safely "arrive and depart " from the UMDNJ compound. NJ gun owners and most of its cops are outraged at the capricious nature of gun ownership - not to mention CCW - prevailing in the DPRNJ ! But, then, every year seems to bring another egregious example the denizens of Trenton's halls sneer at !
A FORMER member of The Gang is denied special privileges by current members of The Gang? Oh, the horror!
Poor little "only ones" being treated as mere New Jersey subjects - er, citizens.
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