New Jersey’s unusual response to the DOJ brief suggests they know the Third Circuit’s conservative shift could end their gun bans.
Gun rights groups filed for en banc rehearing of the Koons v. Platkin case after a hostile Third Circuit ruling. Full court review has been requested to address constitutional violations.
CCRKBA 2025 Grassroots Activist of the Year, Joe LoPorto, breaks down the recent Koons/Siegel v. Platkin opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
The town of Cresskill, New Jersey, just became the seventh municipality to adopt an ordinance to refund permit to carry application fees to applicants, making them completely free.
The Department of Justice, making good on President Trump’s executive order to “Protect the Second Amendment,” has just filed an amicus brief in the case of ANJRPC v. Platkin. The case challenges New Jersey’s ban on so-called “assault weapons” and standard capacity magazines. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will be hearing this case en banc on October 15, 2025.
ANJRPC v. Platkin, which is a consolidation of three cases challenging New Jersey’s so-called “assault weapon” ban and “high capacity magazine” ban, was heard by the Third Circuit less than two months ago in front of a three-judge panel. Before that panel could even render a decision, the full court has decided to hear the case en banc.
Butler, New Jersey proudly becomes the sixth municipality in the state to pass a resolution to refund concealed carry application fees to the applicants.
Vernon, New Jersey, becomes the fifth municipality in the state to put their support of its citizens constitutional rights ahead of its own financial interests.
It appears that New Jersey municipalities are saying “enough.” In 2022, a permit-to-carry application in the state skyrocketed to $200 plus other costs. One by one, towns are voting to rebate the $150 portion of that fee back to the applicants in solid support of Second Amendment rights.
New Jersey-based gun shop, Butch’s Gun World, just reached a settlement with the NJ Attorney General even though they committed no crime and violated no law. The terms of the settlement have the potential to become compulsory for other gun shops throughout the state, lest they be sued for otherwise lawful behavior.
New Jersey’s Attorney General, Matthew Platkin, is suing a Texas-based company for not doing “enough” to warn NJ-based buyers that bump stocks are not legal in the Garden State.
The latest, amidst an endless stream of lawsuits against New Jersey, is that Firearms Policy Coalition has sued the state over its arbitrary and unconstitutional law banning possession of so-called “short-barreled rifles.”
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