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@DoxMeIfYouCan @MorosKostas The prosecutor was Jim McClain, the woman is Shaneen Allen. Here we are more than a decade after her case, and while we made big strides, including carry in NJ, without reciprocity anyone else could suffer the same prosecution/persecution Shaneen did. Much more work to be done.

@gunpolicy @2AFDN @fourboxesdiner @MorosKostas @NJFOSyndicate NJ Gun Owners waiting on the 3rd circuit to rule on Koons/Siegel. Nearly 4 years in and we're still on preliminaries.

@gunpolicy @fourboxesdiner @MorosKostas why are AOWs excluded?

@Guns_Gadgets @Apple @AppleMusic Jared you found it in a junk drawer. I KNOW exactly where mine is. What's that say? LMAO

The parties just filed supplemental briefs with the Third Circuit in an FPC-supported lawsuit challenging the gun ban for non-dangerous felons. You can read them here: firearmspolicy.org/williamsvgarla…

@fourboxesdiner While the question posed to SCOTUS is whether the firearms can be banned, the law challenged also includes magazines. Would a ruling also encompass magazine capacity? And will this cert grant delay Cheeseman/ANJRPC at the 3rd circuit?

@2AFDN Since the challenged law also includes bans on magazines over 10 rounds, does this case also encompass bans on magazine capacity?

We just filed this letter with the Third Circuit in our lawsuit challenging New Jersey's "assault weapon" ban, where we argue that yesterday's Wolford decision strengthens our case: firearmspolicy.org/cheeseman

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Today, NJFOS, along with SAF, has amended our complaint against the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Mr. Aliaj was stripped of his rights simply for cohabiting with someone who was wrongfully rendered a prohibited person, which itself was an abuse of authority. After filing our case, a clear pattern of abuse emerged, and after several additional plaintiffs came forward, we took the necessary step to amend our lawsuit to include these additional plaintiffs. "The fact pattern surrounding the clear abuse of authority by the Bergen County Prosecutor in completely restricting Mr. Aliaj's rights warranted the filing of our initial complaint. In response, numerous additional plaintiffs came forward," said Joe LoPorto, director of legal operations at NJFOS. "These additional plaintiffs make clear that the bully tactics employed by the BCPO are not a one-off, but evidence of a pattern and practice that proves our need for the broad injunctive relief demanded in our complaint. These policies and practices are completely unmoored in either state law or any legal framework consistent with the Second Amendment."

If you told antigunners in 2012 that in 14 years, New Jersey would have over 100,000 carry permits issued, what would they have said the homicide numbers would be? We all know, and they are cowards for not admitting how wrong they were.

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#ICYMI: Homicides in Camden, New Jersey, were down 90% during the first quarter of 2026 compared to 2012, according to data shared by the Camden County Police Department on April 3, 2026. on.nbc10.com/G1tCf1A

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@gunpolicy Administrative code disallows firearms in state parks, and all county and municipal codes are mirror copies of this administrative code. So while the criminal code allows for the imposition of bans, administrative codes actually impose them almost uniformly and universally in NJ

@gunpolicy Need a bit more screening. For NJ you listed NO to restrictions on carry at outdoor public facilities like parks trails. NJ absolutely does. In fact it's part of your own case against NJ in Koons/Siegel. Should fix the entry.

Toms River in Ocean County just became the 13th town in the state to pass our resolution eliminating carry permit fees, now the largest town in the state to do so! Thank you to Council President Justin Lamb for leading this initiative! For the running count, we have eliminated over $200,000 PER YEAR in permitting fees across the state! To get it passed in your town, download our policy brief and model resolution linked below and email your mayor and council asking them to do the same. njfos.org/wp-content/upl… @News2ATeam @JohnPetrolino @DFrancisco7 @gunforhirerange @BearingArmsCom @NRA @2AFDN @CCRKBArms

Today, November 24, 2025, NJFOS joined with the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, and the Gun Owners Action League in Massachusetts to file an important brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the matter Wolford v. Lopez. The Supreme Court granted cert in Wolford this term after the 9th Circuit upheld Hawaii’s no-carry default rule with respect to private property held open to the public, the so called ‘vampire rule.’ In 2022, the Supreme Court put an end to interest balancing in Second Amendment cases in the landmark case NYSRPA v. Bruen. In the years since, more activist judges in places like the 9th Circuit in the captioned matter, and more recently in the 3rd Circuit in the consolidated cases of Koons v. Platkin and Siegel v. Platkin, have twisted the clear guidance from the Supreme Court in Bruen. The Supreme Court, in striking down Hawaii’s vampire rule, can right the ship and squarely address the procedural error that many lower courts in the U.S. are committing. Our brief hopes to help draw the Court’s attention to this major issue. While the question before the Court in Wolford is very narrow, there is a significant opportunity to impact many future cases in the Garden State and across the U.S. Read the full brief here: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/2… @News2ATeam @BearingArmsCom @gunforhirerange @JohnPetrolino

It’s time. Gun owners across the state of New Jersey: Get to the polls! NJFOS Director @JoeLoPorto out with our next governor, NJFOS endorsed @Jack4NJ on the first day of early in-person voting. Early voting polls are open daily across the state from today until Nov. 2. @News2ATeam @gunforhirerange @BearingArmsCom @aarmark @JohnPetrolino @EarlyVoteAction @ScottPresler @NRA @NRAA1F @CCRKBArms

If you're a FFL in New Jersey and you want to SUE the government to overturn an anti-2A law, sign up here ➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

PRESS RELEASE Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Horribly Misses the Mark: Koons/Siegel Should Be Reviewed En Banc Immediately While NJFOS is not a direct party to the consolidated cases of Koons v. Platkin and Seigel v. Platkin, in 2023, NJFOS, on behalf of its members and similarly situated peaceable people across the State of New Jersey, entered these consolidated cases as an amici curiae. Our members have a significant interest in the outcome of these cases. On September 9, 2025, after a nearly two-year deliberation, a three-judge panel at the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reluctantly issued its opinion and judgment in these cases. While the Court begrudgingly confirmed what was plain under current American jurisprudence, that the most pernicious parts of New Jersey’s “Carry Killer” response bill to the Supreme Court’s decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen, hastily passed in December of 2022, clearly violate the right to keep and bear arms, the majority in this case has decided to completely re-write the law with a significant number of the challenged provisions in these cases. It disregarded the law it is bound by from both the Supreme Court and its own prior precedent. “In the evolution of Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi, the Supreme Court has affirmed and reaffirmed a clear system of analyzing modern firearms regulation in the context of the Second Amendment. The majority opinion written by Judge Krause in Koons and Siegel strays way off the roadmap, not just in the more nuanced aspects of that body of law, but on the very central axioms those cases stand for,” said Joseph LoPorto, Director of Legal Operations. Bruen and its progenitors and progeny create a very simple paradigm: when the conduct in question implicates the plain text of the Second Amendment, the burden shifts to the government to show that the modern law is consistent with this nation’s history and tradition of firearms regulation, as understood at the time of the founding. That system has been reaffirmed by the Supreme Court and the Third Circuit itself. Not only did this panel invent law out of thin air, but, as Judge Porter, writing for the Dissent, correctly points out, the majority also relied on a wide swath of anecdotal and anachronistic citations that it found on its own (between 60 and 70% of the historical reference points the majority relies on) to form its understanding of the nation’s history and tradition of firearms regulation. That historical evidence was not presented at prior proceedings by the State defendants, despite bearing the burden to do so. The plaintiffs have had no opportunity to confront these citations in the nearly three years of development in these cases. The majority here has stalled and dragged its feet, only to completely disregard the law in reaching its conclusions, and has created very fundamental questions of fairness in these proceedings. “We are not even close to being done with this,” said Mark Cheeseman, President. In the recent proceedings on New Jersey’s standard capacity magazine bans and bans of commonly owned semi-automatic rifles, the Third Circuit acted sua sponte to hear the cases en banc, taking them from a three-judge panel, prior to giving the panel a chance to rule. They did so to ensure such errors were not made. Here, too, the Third Circuit should immediately grant review of such a heavily flawed opinion, particularly in light of this panel’s absurd and unnecessary delay in these proceedings. --NJFOS-- njfos.org/wp-content/upl… @News2ATeam @BearingArmsCom @JohnPetrolino @gunforhirerange @NRA @gunpolicy @2AFDN @GunWashington @fourboxesdiner

@fourboxesdiner @NJFOSyndicate @gunpolicy @GunOwners Krause is without a doubt one of the worst jurists on the bench for 2A, not just in the 3rd, but the entire US Judiciary. She'll subvert the constitution as much as possible for her anti2A views. Apparently racist laws are compelling to her.

FPC LEGAL ALERT: The Third Circuit has ruled that New Jersey's bans on carrying in private vehicles and on private property by default, along with the state's liability insurance requirement for carry permits and $50 carry permit fee for "the Victims of Crime Compensation Office account" likely violate the Second Amendment: firearmspolicy.org/koons

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