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Posted: 3/7/2024 6:28:11 PM EDT
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This is courtesy of the New Jersey Firearm Owners Syndicate. Feel free to Copy and paste, change or add your thoughts to the letter and send it to your legislators. Their emails can be found here: link Subject: OPPOSE Murphy's Unconstitutional Budget
Dear Assembly and Senate Representatives,
I write you today to urge you to OPPOSE any of Governor Murphy's unconstitutional fee increases on the free exercise of the Second Amendment in his 2025 Budget Proposal. His outrageous plan to make up state deficits on the back of law abiding citizens exercising their constitutionally guaranteed rights is not only immoral, excluding all but those of financial means from their natural right, but also illegal.
Under Governor Murphy's proposal, fees would increase 200% or more for:
Firearms Purchaser Identification Card Application - $100 (Current Fee - $50 already increased 1000% in 2022)
Permit to Purchase a Handgun - $50 (Current Fee - $25, already increased 1250% in 2022)
Duplicate Firearms Purchaser ID Card - $50 (Current Fee - $0)
Wholesale/Retail Dealer Employee License Application - $40 (Current Fee - $5)
Retail Firearms Dealer Licenses Initial/Renewal Applications - $500 (Current Fee - $50)
Manufacturer/Wholesale Dealers of Firearms Initial/Renewal Application - $1,500 (Current Fee - $150)
Permit to Carry Initial/Renewal Application - $400 (Current Fee - $200 already increased 400% in 2022)
NICS Check for Firearms Purchase - $45 (Current Fee - $15, $16 if it includes a handgun)
The Supreme Court in the landmark NYSRPA v Bruen decision stated "...because any permitting scheme can be put toward abusive ends, we do not rule out constitutional challenges to shall-issue regimes where, for example, lengthy wait times in processing license applications or exorbitant fees deny ordinary citizens their right to public carry." Taxes on constitutional rights have consistently been struck down, as was the case in Murdock v Pennsylvania, Minneapolis Star Tribune v Minnesota and Harper v Virginia State Board of Elections to name a few.
I urge you to OPPOSE these illegal fees, and prevent the additional cost to taxpayers that the state will undoubtedly face in legal challenges.
Sincerely,
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