Bearing Arms By Cam Edwards 12/13/2023
New Jersey’s anti-gun Attorney General has been busy this week. My colleague John Petrolino will have an update on Matthew Platkin’s latest attempt to enforce the state’s post-Bruen carry restrictions later today, but in addition to targeting lawful gun owners the AG is also going after gun sellers. On Tuesday Platkin announced he’s using one of the state’s newest gun control laws to sue a Garden State gun store and a Pennsylvania gun show promoter.
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In July of last year, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill empowering the Attorney General’s office to authorizes the Attorney General to sue gun industry members that contribute to a public nuisance in New Jersey through “unlawful or unreasonable conduct, or that fail to maintain reasonable controls, relating to their sale, manufacturing, distribution, importing, or marketing of gun-related products.” Now Platkin says a Morris County gun store should be held to account for being the victim of a burglary, while he’s accusing Eagle Shows and the company JSD Supply (both owned by the same individual) of “targeting the sale of ghost gun products to New Jersey residents” by holding gun shows in eastern Pennsylvania and having the audacity of advertising the shows in New Jersey.
Two men have been charged with breaking in to FSS Armory back in January of this year and stealing 20 firearms, but Platkin says the store’s owner should be held responsible as well because of how he allegedly stored his products.
Sometime before 2 a.m., a surveillance camera captured a crew arriving in a car that had been reported stolen three days prior, smashing a “poorly secured ground-floor window” and removing 20 guns “that were sitting within arm’s reach,” according to a copy of the complaint.
More:
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/12/13/gun-store-gun-show-promoter-under-public-nuisance-law-n78398
