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NJ Cops Want New High Capacity Magazine Rules
Josey1
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NJ Cops Want New High Capacity Magazine Rules Gun Owners of America E-mail/FAX Alert8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151703-321-8585March 5, 2002 Dear New Jersey Gun Owner: The Attorney General needs to hear from you today! New Jersey gun owners are increasingly being treated as a hated minority, not worthy of trust, who must be kept under constant surveillance and harassment to keep them in line. Some time ago, the New Jersey legislature deemed large capacity magazines over 15 rounds as too dangerous to be possessed by mere citizens. The state police magnanimously allowed owners of such magazines to insert temporary blocks to restrict the capacity to the politically correct number of rounds. No doubt this was how the legislature and the state police believed they were not infringing on the right to keep and bear arms. Well, the state police seem to have come to the additional conclusion that they cannot trust "those people" with a mere temporary blockage, so they have mandated that the blockage must now be welded in. The state police, in their wisdom, have not disclosed why magazines that licensed dealers were allowed to sell are now too dangerous to be owned without further and expensive modification. Perhaps there has been some unpublicized rash of crimes committed by criminals using these magazines. Perhaps these crimes were too horrific for the public to hear of them, and the police prevented the media from covering what they otherwise would have treated by journalism's first rule: "If it bleeds, it leads." Gun owners unaware of the new policy will become instant criminals. Let's just hope there are not so many of them that the state is forced to construct additional barracks for all the new state police officers who will be needed to arrest the new "gun criminals." Certainly the police aren't going to take any heat in the media for targeting gun owners. As far as the media are concerned, everybody "knows" that gun owners deserve what they get. Right? The police have graciously allowed for public comment until March 8. New Jersey residents can use the address lpaciti@smtp.lps.state.nj.us for e-mail comments to the state Attorney General's office. Since the Firearms Investigation Unit that developed the new policy has provided no e-mail address for receiving comments, the Attorney General's office, which is over the state police, will have to suffice as the place to send comments. You might want to point out that there is no problem with these magazines so the policy should not be changed. On another note, New Jersey gun owners got some good news and some bad news following a lawsuit brought to stop illegal fees from being charged to people applying for a firearms owner identification card. Applicants in seven counties (Sussex, Passaic, Morris, Essex, Union, Mercer and Camden) had to pay an illegal fee for a mental health background check. A Gun Owners of New Jersey member, Allen Dixler, brought the suit on his, and the organization's, behalf. Dixler prevailed, and an appellate court in the state ordered that the fees be stopped because state law clearly forbade charging fees. The kicker, however, is that gun owners in the seven counties have to know about the decision and then go to small claims court if they want to get their money back. There will be no checks automatically written. The double standard used for the ruling class versus mere citizens is rather obvious in this case. The county said they should not be required to pay the money back because they had already used it. Perhaps Jesse James could have used the same argument. The court found that the counties had broken the law, but other than the treble damages to be paid from taxpayer funds that could be assessed, no government official will pay from his pocket or risk any jail time. What would happen if thousands of citizens had broken a law in this way? They might well have faced charges under the racketeering statutes and lost their property and bank accounts. (Have you ever thought about this: it is illegal to lie to the government, but not for the government to lie to the people?) Oh, well, if you live in one of the seven counties, it would be a good idea to go to a small claims court. The main cost in doing so will be your time, but justice suggests that this would not be too big a sacrifice, and you might get treble damages plus interest awarded. http://www.gunowners.org/snj0202.htm
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