{"id":88194,"date":"2018-02-14T17:09:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=88194"},"modified":"2018-02-14T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:46:46","slug":"new-jersey-gov-murphy-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/new-jersey-gov-murphy-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Gov. Murphy Talks Gun Control, Wants to &#8216;Reclaim&#8217; Status as Anti-Gun Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_88195\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MurphyGov.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"new-jersey-gov-murphy-gun-control\" title=\"NJ Gov. Murphy Talks Gun Control, Wants to 'Reclaim' Status as Anti-Gun Paradise\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88195\" title=\"NJ Gov. Murphy Talks Gun Control, Wants to 'Reclaim' Status as Anti-Gun Paradise\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MurphyGov-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"NJ Gov. Murphy Talks Gun Control, Wants to 'Reclaim' Status as Anti-Gun Paradise\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MurphyGov-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MurphyGov-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MurphyGov-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MurphyGov.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy talks gun control at the Betty and Milton Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill on Feb. 13, 2018. (<em>Photo: Facebook<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though he&#8217;s only been gone a month or so, New Jersey gun owners have to be really missing former Gov. Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Christie was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/lame-duck-christie-signs-bump-stock-ban-new-jerseyans-have-90-days-to-surrender-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"new-jersey-gov-murphy-gun-control\" title=\"NJ Gov. Murphy Talks Gun Control, Wants to 'Reclaim' Status as Anti-Gun Paradise\">far from perfect<\/a> on 2A issues, but this new guy, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is a total nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>This week &#8220;Murph&#8221; met with a bunch of anti-gun chuckleheads, including\u00a0Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald, to talk turkey on ways to undo what little progress Christie was able to make during his tenure.\u00a0 Five bills were discussed at length, everything from codifying May-Issue in the Garden State to criminalizing private transfers to banning mags holding more than 10 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief synopsis of the bills from the governor&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/nj.gov\/governor\/news\/news\/562018\/approved\/20180213a_gun.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"new-jersey-gov-murphy-gun-control\" title=\"NJ Gov. Murphy Talks Gun Control, Wants to 'Reclaim' Status as Anti-Gun Paradise\"> press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A2761 &#8211; Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; exempts firearms with .22 caliber tubular magazines from 10 round limitation.<\/li>\n<li>A2758 &#8211; Codifies regulations defining justifiable need to carry handgun.<\/li>\n<li>A2757 &#8211; Requires background check for private gun sales.<\/li>\n<li>A2759 &#8211; Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor<\/li>\n<li>A2760 &#8211; Revises definition of destructive device to include certain weapons of 50 caliber or greater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank Majority Leader Greenwald for his tireless efforts to bring sensible gun reforms to New Jersey,\u201d Governor Murphy said.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/lame-duck-christie-signs-bump-stock-ban-new-jerseyans-have-90-days-to-surrender-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"new-jersey-gov-murphy-gun-control\" title=\"NJ Gov. Murphy Talks Gun Control, Wants to 'Reclaim' Status as Anti-Gun Paradise\">\u00a0Lame Duck Christie Signs Bump Stock Ban: New Jerseyans Have 90 Days to Surrender Them<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cTogether, we can pass the laws that Governor Christie vetoed and reclaim our place as a state that acts on facts and common sense,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We must again become a state that values the safety of our residents and communities over the misguided priorities of the gun lobby.<\/p>\n<p>Facts and common sense.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s talk facts and common sense.\u00a0 Facts first.\u00a0 Between 2007 and 2015, the number of concealed carriers<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/now-15-million-concealed-carriers-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"new-jersey-gov-murphy-gun-control\" title=\"NJ Gov. Murphy Talks Gun Control, Wants to 'Reclaim' Status as Anti-Gun Paradise\"> in the country increased by 215 percent<\/a>.\u00a0 Over that same time period, the murder rate dropped by 14 percent and violent crime fell by 21 percent, according to the Crime Research Prevention Center.<\/p>\n<p>Common sense would suggest that empowering more law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms would further increase public safety and reduce crime rates.\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n<p>Not according to Murphy. The harder it is for one to defend oneself the safer that person is.\u00a0 For it is better to be a victim of violent crime than a preventer of it.\u00a0 Common sense, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTogether, we can pass the laws that Governor Christie vetoed and reclaim our place as a state that acts on facts and common sense,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We must again become a state that values the safety of our residents and communities over the misguided priorities of the gun lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":88195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,216],"tags":[132,469,607,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-gun-control","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NJ Gov. 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