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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By: Raquel Okyay
3/23/2014 03:02 PM
Garden State advocates for restoring gun rights are white knuckling as
Republican Gov. Christopher J. Christie decides how to game harsh gun
legislation Democrats dropped in his in box.
“Over 100 pro-gun right supporters attended the Assembly Law and Public
Safety committee hearing on March 13 and over 80 of us testified in great
detail against the magazine capacity ban,” said Frank Jack Fiamingo,
president of The New Jersey Second Amendment Society.
“We made our pleas, used our logic, used our reasoning, and they completely
ignored us,” he siad. The legislation regulations on magazines makes
thousands of gun owners a new clase of felons.
Within seconds and with little after-thought, the full assembly voted and
passed by a partisan 46 to 31 margin a bill that reduces the lawful maximum
capacity of ammunitions magazines from 15 rounds to 10 rounds, he said. “
There’s no common sense, no logic, and no reason why the legislature should
pass this bill.”
Having thousands of members and supporters, the Second Amendment society is
a nonprofit organization that seeks to restore and preserve the right of the
people of New Jersey to keep and bear arms for self-defense, hunting,
competition, collecting, and recreation, he said
Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald (D-Camden) introduced the magazine
capacity ban last year but was unable to persuade Senate President Stephen M
. Sweeney (D-Gloucester) to move the anti-gun measure to a committee hearing
or senate vote until now, said Fiamingo.
“The bill did not go through last year because ‘Candidate for Senate
Sweeney’ realizing it would be detrimental to him with lots of hunters and
sportsman in his district, did not approve it, yet suddenly ‘Candidate for
Governor Sweeney’ has a change-of-heart and decides to support limiting
magazines to ten rounds.”
Promulgating further gun control, Sweeney and Greenwald entered into a deal
to push this bill through the legislature and forward it to Republican Gov.
Christopher J. Christie for signature, he said. “With both houses of the
state legislature Democrat-controlled – the fix is in.”
Assuming office in January 2010, Christie became the first Republican to win
a statewide election in New Jersey in 12 years.
Fiamingo said he personally believes Christie will veto the measure and
since the Democrats do not have enough votes in the legislature to override
a governor’s veto, the bill may not pass; however that will not stop NJ2AS
from staying active and keeping people informed.
By definition the only people that will obey the law are law-abiding
citizens, he said. “A magazine capacity limit of any kind, even the limit
we have now at 15, is a bad idea.”
Gun bans place law-abiding citizens at a disadvantage, said Fiamingo. “
Citizens will limit themselves to a 10-round or 15-round magazine, but what
about the three thugs that are breaking into your home at 2 AM? They are
armed with 30-round magazines.”
Nonsensical gun-control laws that do nothing to prevent violent crime,
severely affect the rights of law-abiding citizens, he said. “There are
quite a few hunters, sportsman and gun owners who have firearms with 15-
round magazines.”
There is no provision or “grandfather clause” in the proposed law that
determines what these gun owners are supposed to do with their firearms, he
said. “If signed into law, an entire new class of formerly law-abiding
citizens are now felons subject to 7 to 10 years in prison.”
Even the popular .22-caliber rifle would automatically become an ‘assault
weapon’ and banned under the proposed law, he said. “The 22-caliber rifle
has a fixed tube magazine above 10-rounds which is part of the firearm
itself and is not removable.”
Another concern with the proposed law is the enforceability aspect, said
Fiamingo.
“Who is going to enforce the magazine limit and how? Are they going to send
police and troopers into my home for having a 15-round magazine?”
There is no good purpose in arresting people for doing nothing more than
keeping something they freely purchased, he added.
It is a dangerous situation in-the-making for citizens and law enforcement
– alike, he said.
“With police going into people’s homes and trying to take their property,
it is inevitable that somebody is going to get hurt.” |
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