Siegel v. Platkin — Why we support the NRA (and never bash it in public)

[bushmaster1313]

After the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, holding that individuals have a 2A right to carry outside the home, New Jersey passed a gaggle of laws severely restricting the places carry is allowed.

Several cases have been filed challenging these new draconian laws, and Judge Bumb of the New Jersey District Court temporarily stopped the enforcement of many of those laws in a Preliminary Injunction.

Judge Bumb’s Preliminary Injunction decision in favor of the 2A is now on appeal to the Third Circuit, which has been dragging its heels. My Lawyer's Intuition tells me that the Third Circuit has been waiting to see what the Supreme Court would do in Rahimi

Recently, the Supreme Court in Rahimi held that individuals found by a court to be dangerous can be temporarily prevented from possessing firearms (let’s not debate that finding in this thread).

Predictably, the state of New Jersey wrote to the Third Circuit on June 28 saying that Rahimi means that the State can permanently prohibit all persons from carrying throughout most of the State of New Jersey.
New Jersey's June 28 Letter on Rahimi

On July 1, the firm of Clement & Murphy filed their compelling response
Clement & Murphy's July 1 Letter in response

I understand that Clement & Murphy is one of the firms hired by the NRA to advocate on behalf of the 2A. This is one of many good reasons to support the NRA (and to never bash the NRA in public)

 

[Faulkner]

I think NRA members should praise the NRA when they do good, and they can and should criticize when they don't. What I personally don't abide with are the fair weather supporters and quitters. They're glad to be on the bandwagon when things are good, but instead of standing with righteous indignation during the La Pierre fiasco and supporting necessary and appropriate change, they bailed.

Far as I'm concerned, the quitters have no say in the regrouping of the NRA.

 

[stansdds]

Predictably, the state of New Jersey wrote to the Third Circuit on June 28 saying that Rahimi means that the State can permanently prohibit all persons from carrying throughout most of the State of New Jersey.
New Jersey's June 28 Letter on Rahimi

I think that is a real stretching and twisting of the Rahimi decision. Basically, the state of New Jersey is deeming all of its residents and anyone who sets foot into NJ as being dangerous to the public. That is an incredibly wide brush with which to paint an entire population.

 

[bushmaster1313]

I think that is a real stretching and twisting of the Rahimi decision. Basically, the state of New Jersey is deeming all of its residents and anyone who sets foot into NJ as being dangerous to the public. That is an incredibly wide brush with which to paint an entire population.

I can’t say I understand the Legislature’s mindset. But I think the argument is that a gun carried anywhere by anyone is inherently dangerous and cannot be rendered safe by training the permittee.