{"id":3621,"date":"2012-01-13T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/01\/13\/saf-anjrpc-will-appea\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:19","slug":"saf-anjrpc-will-appea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3621","title":{"rendered":"SAF, ANJRPC Will Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16407,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/anjrpc.site-ym.com\\\/resource\\\/resmgr\\\/Legal_Motions___Briefs\\\/NJ_RTC_Walls_Decision.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120131185344\\\/http:\\\/\\\/anjrpc.site-ym.com:80\\\/resource\\\/resmgr\\\/Legal_Motions___Briefs\\\/NJ_RTC_Walls_Decision.pdf&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 21:50:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 21:29:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 21:29:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Second Amendment Foundation and the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs plan to appeal the dismissal of what had been Muller v. Maenza. The ruling from Judge Walls can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/anjrpc.site-ym.com\/resource\/resmgr\/Legal_Motions___Briefs\/NJ_RTC_Walls_Decision.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>SAF, ANJRPC WILL APPEAL NEW JERSEY RIGHT-TO-CARRY RULING<\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release:   1\/13\/2012<\/p>\n<p>BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 The Second Amendment Foundation and Association of New Jersey Rifle &amp; Pistol Clubs will appeal a federal judge\u2019s ruling Friday that \u201cthe Second Amendment does not include a general right to carry handguns outside the home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal Judge William H. Walls, a Clinton appointee, dismissed a case filed by both organizations challenging New Jersey&#8217;s handgun carry laws, which have all but eliminated the right to self-defense with a firearm outside the home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Second Amendment Foundation and ANJRPC are prepared to take this case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where SAF has already won a landmark case defending the rights of gun owners,\u201d said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb.<\/p>\n<p>In upholding the New Jersey law, which effectively denies the right to carry a firearm for self-defense outside the home, Judge Walls wrote \u201cthe protection of citizens from potentially lethal force is compelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judge has it backwards,\u201d said ANJRPC President Scott Bach. \u201cIf he really cared about protecting citizens from lethal force, he wouldn\u2019t be interfering with their constitutional right to defend themselves against violent criminals. Ironically, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the police owe no duty to protect individual citizens, so you\u2019re on your own when you step outside your home. This decision wrongly demonizes those who want to take responsibility for their own safety and turns all but a privileged few into helpless victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Particularly disturbing to Gottlieb was Judge Walls\u2019 comment, \u201cThe Supreme Court has found limitations on the scope of a constitutional right outside the home in the First Amendment context, recognizing a right to privately possess obscene materials in the home but allowing the states broad power to regulate obscenity outside the home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe appears to suggest the right to keep and bear arms is an obscenity,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cI wonder how that view might square with Thomas Jefferson or James Madison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Walls\u2019 decision sets the stage for appeals which could bring this case to the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year. The case was filed in late 2010 by ANJRPC, SAF and six individual plaintiffs, challenging New Jersey\u2019s \u201cjustifiable need\u201d standard for issuance of handgun carry permits, which is nearly an impossible standard to meet. Plaintiffs believe that requiring a showing of \u201cneed\u201d to exercise a fundamental right is unconstitutional.<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Amendment Foundation and the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs plan to appeal the dismissal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3995],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-muller-v-maenza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7586,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/7586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}