'bout friggin time!
Posted on 06/22/2012 6:33:24 PM PDT by Revtwo
For the first time in New Jersey legal history, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court has applied the U.S. Constitution’s 2nd Amendment Right to “Keep and Bear Arms” to order the return of an individual’s seized firearms and gun license.
The case was argued on appeal by the law firm of Evan F. Nappen, Attorney at Law P.C. of Eatontown, NJ. The 33 page formal brief was written by Louis P. Nappen, Esq. in which every point of argument raised on appeal was affirmed by the Court in its decision.
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This is an incredible shot in the arm for NJ gun rights, which had been struggling along on life support for decades.
So what does this mean for me as a resident in nj?
For the moment, it appears that it has invalidated New Jersey’s “safe storage” (aka “safe home invaders”) law.
'bout friggin time!
The Heller decision might very well go down as the most important 2nd Amendment court decision in the last 100 years.
They're sharpening the ice skates in hell as we speak.
I can’t believe Christie allowed this to happen!
(Yes I can; he isn’t perfect, but he is right of center, which is more than we here in NJ could have ever hoped for)
I think there is very little doubt that Heller deserves to be in at least a tie for first place.
Sharing first place is the infamous Miller decision of 1939. The District Court agreed with Miller's lawyer that the Second Amendment protected Miller's possession of a short-barreled shotgun and dismissed the case. On a direct appeal the Supreme Court reversed and remanded the case, creating a burden on a person to somehow prove the usefulness of his arms to the goals of a Militia.
Later rulings completely mis-stated the Miller decision and created the "collective right" nonsense which prevailed for almost three-quarters of a century.
If he's right of center the center is so far left of me it's scary.
More like a resurrection from the dead.
Good start. But if it winds up before the State Supreme Court, the “justices” there rewrite statutes as they choose,are very imaginative in interpreting the law, and perhaps, are the most uniquely least qualified from a bench perspective, to render Constitutional decisions. In short, they are a collection of attorneys who are political hacks and rabid liberals.
We shall see.
Unless you lived in the pre-Christie NJ you wouldn’t understand.
You do know that Christie was for the AR-15 ban in the 1990’s, don’t you?
You do know that Christie was for the AR-15 ban in the 1990’s, don’t you?
Yes; I'm saying I don't understand.
I’m living in 2012; what has Christie done in the last decade?
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