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Action Alert: A4218 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE” TO BE USED AS COVER FOR LEGISLATIVE ATTACK ON GUN OWNERS – MONDAY!

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“DOMESTIC VIOLENCE” TO BE USED AS COVER FOR LEGISLATIVE ATTACK ON GUN OWNERS – MONDAY!

Tell Assembly Committee Members to Severely Punish
Anyone Who Commits Violent Acts Against a Partner,
Instead of Inventing New Ways to Harass and Intimidate
Gun Owners, Which Makes No One Safer

The New Jersey Assembly Law & Public Safety Committee is scheduled to consider A4218, (http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2014/Bills/A4500/4218_I1.HTM) revising the state’s domestic violence laws, on Monday, June 1 at 1:30 p.m.

ANJRPC strongly condemns anyone who commits violent aggressive acts against a domestic partner, and believes that such a person should not have access to firearms, and should be punished as severely as possible. Federal law currently provides for this, and New Jersey’s existing domestic violence law is already one of the toughest in the country.

On the surface, A4218 seems well-intentioned. But instead of focusing on increasing the severity of punishment for those who commit actual violent acts, the legislation seems obsessed with harassing and intimidating anyone who owns firearms and is also accused of domestic violence, even where no actual violence has occurred – which is often the case under existing New Jersey law.

Among other things, A4218:

- Allows for forfeiture and destruction of firearms without a due process forfeiture hearing and without compensation, even where the firearms are unrelated to the act complained of, in violation of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

- Criminalizes the failure to surrender a registered firearm even if that firearm has previously been sold or stolen!

- Compels gun owners to waive their Fifth Amendment rights under threat of criminal penalty, within a 48-hour time frame.

- Mandates the surrender of firearms within an absurd 24-hour time frame, even during weekends and holidays when dealers are closed and cannot accept them.

- Allows law enforcement to charge unspecified “fees” for the storage of seized firearms, even where a person is cleared of charges, creating de facto forfeiture without due process when the fees cannot be paid!

- Fails to punish those who make false domestic violence allegations to gain tactical advantage in divorce cases, or out of spite, and fails to provide relief or a rights restoration process for those victimized by false allegations.

It comes as a surprise to many that under current New Jersey law, the grounds for a “domestic violence act” may be as minor as a verbal argument that purposely causes annoyance (harassment). A verbal argument with no violent act whatsoever can and frequently does result in seizure and forfeiture of firearms, and permanent loss of gun rights. There is even one infamous case where throwing pretzels resulted in a domestic violence claim.

Other similar types of non-violent acts that constitute “domestic violence” and can result in firearms forfeiture include staying in the home despite being asked to leave by a spouse who holds title to the home (criminal trespass); and scaring a spouse with a halloween mask (putting another in fear by physical menace). There are several others, and they arise on a regular basis in the Garden State.

Unfortunately A4218, which appears to be part of a larger national agenda, fails to recognize that New Jersey law is unique in allowing minor non-violent acts to be classified as “domestic violence.” It also fails to recognize that false allegations of domestic violence are sometimes made to gain advantage in divorce cases, or out of spite, without any consequence to the accuser.

Instead of recognizing the distinction between violent and non-violent actors, A4218 subjects those accused in non-violent situations to the exact same penalties and procedures facing violent offenders, simply because they happen to be gun owners. As is typical of many gun control schemes in the Garden State, A4218 appears obsessed with the harassment and intimidation of all gun owners, instead of focusing punishment where it belongs – on violent offenders. A4218 is therefore off target and makes no one safer.

See ANJRPC’s full position paper on A4218 here:
http://c.ymcdn.com/…/Legal…/ANJRPC_Position_Paper_A4218_.pdf

Please immediately tell members of the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee to oppose A4218 as written and instead support proposals that severely punish those who commit violent acts, and that hold accountable anyone who makes of false allegations of domestic violence.

 

*Members of the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee:

 

 

Charles Mainor (Chair) (D31)
[email protected]
Phone: 201-536-7851
Fax: 201-536-7854

 

Gilbert L. Wilson (Vice Chair) (D5)
[email protected]
Phone: 856-547-4800
Fax: 856-547-5496

 

Nancy J. Pinkin (D18)
[email protected]
Phone: 732-548-1406
Fax: 732-548-1623

 

Shavonda E. Sumter (D35)
[email protected]
Phone: 973-925-7061
Fax: 973-925-7067

 

Joe Danielsen (D17)
[email protected]
Phone: 732-247-3999
Fax: 732-247-4383

 

David P. Rible (R30)
[email protected]
Phone: 732-974-0400
Fax: 732-974-2564

 

Gregory P. McGuckin (R10)
[email protected]
Phone: 732-840-9028
Fax: 732-840-9757

 

Erik Peterson (R23)
[email protected]
Phone: 908-238-0251
Fax: 908-238-0256

 

Click below for the online version of this alert:
https://c.ymcdn.com/…/Aler…/New_Legislative_Attack_Monda.pdf

 
c.ymcdn.com

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It is always going to pass.....the deck is stacked in the Dems favor every time. I quite often feel writing them means and does nothing. Just like in the past when I have written to Rush Holt, Booker, and Menedez, they all said "thanks for your opinion, but we are voting this way anyway".

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Seems like the same crap over and over again.  The Dems decide to present some new anti-gun legislation.  It goes to committee.  We send people to Trenton to explain that it's unfair and illogical.  They listen to us impassively.  They take a vote.  All the R's vote against.  All the D's vote in favor.  The bill passes through committee to the Assembly and Senate, where the vote goes the same way.  Then if we have a Republican governor, we might get lucky and have it vetoed.  Otherwise, it becomes law and there's one more infringement on our Second Amendment rights.  

 

I hate that hackneyed mantra about insanity being doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different outcome, but it sure seems to apply here.

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Watch this one carefully.  If Christie vetoes it headlines will read, "Christie vetoes Domestic Violence Bill" could be a problem for his aspirations.  Need to approach this in a better manor.  Otherwise it will take a test case in court.

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Watch this one carefully.  If Christie vetoes it headlines will read, "Christie vetoes Domestic Violence Bill" could be a problem for his aspirations.  Need to approach this in a better manor.  Otherwise it will take a test case in court.

If he does sign it, he's done with any presidential hopes.  If he even gets that far...

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Seems like the same crap over and over again.  The Dems decide to present some new anti-gun legislation.  It goes to committee.  We send people to Trenton to explain that it's unfair and illogical.  They listen to us impassively.  They take a vote.  All the R's vote against.  All the D's vote in favor.  The bill passes through committee to the Assembly and Senate, where the vote goes the same way.  Then if we have a Republican governor, we might get lucky and have it vetoed.  Otherwise, it becomes law and there's one more infringement on our Second Amendment rights.  

 

I hate that hackneyed mantra about insanity being doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different outcome, but it sure seems to apply here.

 

Exactly my point. The committee is stacked with more Dems every time. It is not like on the national level where they may sway their vote the other way. In the PRNJ, they do whatever Sweeney tells them to do. In 18 months all these anti-gun bills will get passed. Does not even one Dem in NJ have to balls to vote pro-gun?

 

I need to step up my "leaving NJ for good plan".

 

I wrote each committee member; not one response back. Not a "thanks for writing us", or F. U., or a "no, I am voting for it". Nada.

 

S.

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All committees are "stuffed" with members whose party is in control of the Assembly or Senate.  Want to change it?  Vote out the democrats. Meaningful change will never happen until at least the Assembly or Senate are not in Democratic control.

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Listening to Assemblywoman Mosquera's intro to this nonsense now.  My eyes can't roll back into my head far enough...

 

That woman is insane. I heard her rant. Sounds like the Moms for Everytown BS speech. How many female lives would be saved from knives? fists? bats?

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All committees are "stuffed" with members whose party is in control of the Assembly or Senate.  Want to change it?  Vote out the democrats. Meaningful change will never happen until at least the Assembly or Senate are not in Democratic control.

 

Well, I guess that will never happen in the PRNJ. I went to vote in the primaries tonight. Guess what number I was? 8. Effin' 8. Should have been in the hundreds at least. No one votes or cares. People are apathetic towards voting and politicians. I try to get my family and friends to vote (not just today) and it falls on deaf ears.

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