New Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)- June 14, 2018. last week, the New Jersey Republic Party issued a strong statement defending legal gun owners, after the Democrat-controlled Assembly Judiciary Committee yesterday passed a package of gun bills more seriously impacting gun rights than gun crime.
In a news release, NJ GOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt said, “We must stop vilifying legal gun owners, which is the easy way to make a gun statement, and get tough on gun violence, which is harder and takes guts… [L]et’s treat gun violence for the crime it is and stop treating legal gun owners like the criminals they aren’t.”
Read the full text of the statement here.
Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs is a non-partisan organization that supports all lawmakers who support the Second Amendment, regardless of political party. While the Second Amendment shouldn’t be a partisan issue, unfortunately it has become so in New Jersey in recent decades. Gun crime needs to be punished, but gun rights need to be protected.
Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs is grateful for this statement on gun rights by the NJ GOP. Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs is also willing to publicize statements in support of gun rights by other political parties, should they be made.
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About Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs:The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, Inc. is the official NRA State Association in New Jersey. Our mission is to implement all of the programs and activities at the state level that the NRA does at the national level. This mission includes the following: To support and defend the constitutional rights of the people to keep and bear arms. To take immediate action against any legislation at the local, state and federal level that would infringe upon these rights. Visit: www.anjrpc.org
In N.J. and most other places in America, we have a Criminal Justice System, Yup, the criminals get justice and the rest of us get, F’d. It is designed purposely for lawyers to make money, not to stop crime or protect the general public.
When will the RNC and the NRA stop with the blah blah blah of protecting the 2nd Amendment and start using true, real life examples. Guns were taken away in Cuba and the people are now controlled without ability to protect themselves from the govt and people have died at the hands of the gov Venezuela took the people’s guns away, Same result. USE TANGIBLE, REAL EXAMPLES (stories) OF WHAT THE REAL RESULT OF THE LOSS OF GUN RIGHTS. They are easy to get, make videos showing impact. The intangible reference to 2nd amend loss of rights DOES NOT compute… Read more »
Where was the NJ GOP when Chris Christie was governor and when he was announcing his candidacy in 2009 he said he supported aggressive enforcement of the state’s current gun laws and when he signed legislation making bump stocks illegal in the state.
Or where were they when Chris Christie ran as a State Representative and publicly stated he supports the “ban on assault weapons”?
Governor Christie Lies to Brett Baier About Gun Control Record – https://www.ammoland.com/2015/11/nj-gov-lies-brett-baier-national-audience-gun-control-record/#axzz5rOhiMPiP
And they always say it takes courage on the part of the legislators to enact gun control laws. The courage they exhibit is to go against the constituents who elected them to gain some political capital by claiming ‘I did something, vote for me’.
OOOHHH. The worthless, passive, cowardly GOP published a statement. How about they take their heads out of the a$$e$ and actually DO SOMETHING about it instead of making a statement. The GOP have been a huge let down for me over the last decade when they more chances at any time in recent history to secure and make things right with We-The-People of America. But nope, they kowtow to the communists every time.
It is a fact that criminals in this country are not punished. Law abiding gun owners are not criminals, but the democrats want to treat them as such, and take away their rights to self protection. Start treating criminals for what they are regardless of race, money or status.Let the punishment match the crime. For every action, there shall be an equal and opposite reaction!