NJ Essentially Bans All Firearms Transfers

From our friends over at the Firearm Blog, they have an interesting story involving Governor Murphy and New Jersey. As you may or may not know, Governor Murphy passed legislation early in his term to force all private sales of firearms to have a background check. This includes both handguns and long guns. Governor Murphy’s newest Executive Order, Executive Order 107, directed all non-essential retail businesses to close. As part of this order, the State Police NICS team was included. From the NICS portal website:

On Saturday March 21, 2020, Governor Phil Murphy announced he is putting New Jersey in lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus. Per Executive Order 107, he is ordering the residents of New Jersey to stay home, directing all non-essential retail businesses closed to the public. At this time, the order includes New Jersey Firearms State Licensed Dealers. The New Jersey State Police NICS Unit is directing the vendor of the NICS Online Application (NICUSA) to turn off the NICS Online Services for submitting NICS transactions by eliminating the “Request Form” button, effective 9:00pm EST, Saturday, March 21, 2020. You will still have the ability to view the message board and the status of previously submitted transactions. This “Request Form” feature will remain off until further order by Governor Murphy.

https://www.njportal.com/NJSP/NicsVerification

As The Firearm Blog noted:

By executive order, the Governor of New Jersey has shutdown the NICS Check system that allows for the sale and transfer of firearms in the state. The NICS check shutdown effectively eliminates all commercial and private transfers of firearms in New Jersey. In addition, judicial processes in the state have been basically frozen, limiting proceedings to critical needs only. Any possible legal challenges to the NICS check system closure in a time of a “non-essential business shutdown” appears to be impossible.

It is quite clear that, at a time when millions of Americans are feeling scared and uncertain about the future and wish to obtain protection for themselves and their families, Governor Murphy has decided to leave them vulnerable. Given his clear anti-gun agenda, there is no doubt that he is exploiting this crisis in order to further degrade the already heavily-infringed Second Amendment rights of New Jerseyians. Considering that a “stand down” order was essentially given to Law Enforcement in Philadelphia and the likelihood that a similar order would be issued in New Jersey, this Governor has failed his citizens and left them in a degraded security position.

Tyranny is afoot, ladies and gentlemen. The government – right on cue – is going to take advantage of this crisis to further their dictatorial tendencies.

Keep your training up, your PT moving, and your powder dry.

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5 Comments

  1. David March 22, 2020 at 10:18

    He hasn’t blocked all firearms transfers. Just legal firearms transfers. I don’t think this will put much of a dent in firearms transfers in Newark.

    • Patriotman March 22, 2020 at 10:21

      Yup – that is why I said “essentially” :)

      The criminals will still be able to arm up; the poor serfs, not so much. Guess he got nervous seeing all of the articles about the new gun owner surge during this crisis. Hopefully this makes people more apt to defend the Second Amendment here because now that they NEED it, it is gone. A sad state of affairs.

  2. Kilo March 22, 2020 at 12:20

    OK, first off, any sort of firearms sales ban is illegal and unlawful according to US Code Title 42 Section 5207

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/5207

    https://law.justia.com/codes/us/2014/title-42/chapter-68/subchapter-v/sec.-5207

    Yes, I realize there is quite a historical precedent for this piece of code being violated, buy if we continue to allow this precedent to take hold, we only have ourselves to blames.

    At any rate, those charges will be thrown out as unlawful if any sort of legal action were to be taken, just like they previously have been dating back to Katrina.

    By doing this, the elected official just abused their power and just became a criminal. My question, which NJ citizen is going to perform that legitimate citizen’s arrest?

    No, that did work for Hilary either.

    Secondly, you ‘collectively’ voted these clowns into office and as far as I’m concerned you all deserve what you get in return. Don’t take that personally, it is what it is.

    So, I’ll say the same thing that I said in regards to what is going on in VA, leave. By continuing to remain citizens of these states which show no regard for the Constitution you are still supporting these politicians monetarily with your taxes. You ‘again, collectively’ are keeping them in power and enabling them to do these evil things.

    Many will come up with all kinds of reasons/excuses as to why they cannot leave and most are BS. Unless you are in jail/prison, stationed there in the military, or have some other similar restriction as to why you legitimately cannot leave, it is not a matter of cannot, it is simply that you will not. Vote with your money and your feet. I took my own advice when I left CA and I haven’t looked back on that cesspool despite my family still living there, I have not returned in over a decade. My thoughts are if they want to see me, they can come visit me in a free state.

    Rant over.

  3. Les March 22, 2020 at 14:20

    I didn’t know there were any legally-owned firearms in NJ. OK, I’m being a smartass. But who is it wanting to purchase legal firearms in NJ at this late date? Likely Newbies who up until this pandemic probably believed that no civilian should own one.

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