Yesterday, the National Rifle Association joined the Firearms Policy Coalition and two NRA members in filing a legal challenge to New Jersey’s “one-gun-a-month” law.
New Jersey forbids the purchase of more than one handgun per month. Specifically, N.J.SA. § 2C:58-3(i) provides, “Only one handgun shall be purchased or delivered on each permit and no more than one handgun shall be purchased within any 30-day period. . . .”
Under the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment framework, a firearm regulation is unconstitutional unless the government demonstrates that it is consistent with our nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. New Jersey cannot make such a showing here. The Second Amendment expressly protects the right to “keep and bear arms,” and at the time of the Founding, handguns were commonly sold in pairs (which were called a “case of pistols”).
Notably, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held California’s similar law unconstitutional last year in Ngyuen v. Bonta. New Jersey’s law is likewise unconstitutional.
The case, Struck v. Platkin, is before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org for future updates on NRA-ILA’s ongoing efforts to defend your constitutional rights, and please visit www.nraila.org/litigation to keep up to date on NRA-ILA’s ongoing litigation efforts.
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