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Swordsmyth
05-10-2018, 08:22 PM
A New Jersey township is considering an ordinance that would prohibit the retail sale of firearms or ammunition within 1,000 feet of "sensitive" locations. (https://mycj.co/2G1jrS8)Under the measure, retail sales would be banned near schools, day care sites, college campuses, medical facilities, bars, parks, places of worship and similar sites. Township Councilman Steven Cahn, an attorney and former U.S. Marine captain, proposed the ordinance Tuesday, which is considered to be the first of its kind in the state, according to a statement from the township.
"Someone has to take a leadership position on a local level on these types of issues," Cahn said. "The federal government is not going to do anything. They are kicking around several pieces of legislation in Trenton and those are all great, but I don't know where they're going with it. It is now our responsibility here on the local level to do what we can within the confines of our legal responsibility as a local township government, consistent with the constitutional limitations of the Second Amendment to protect our residents. Maybe other towns will follow suit."
No businesses in the township currently sell firearms or ammunition, Cahn said.


"It's proactive," Cahn said. "It protects the town in the future should someone want to come in and put something in our town we don't want. To the best we can tell, no one in New Jersey has done this. At the very least, those who sell these weapons of war under lax federal laws should not be that close to places where children and families gather."
Cahn said the council unanimously approved the ordinance on first reading and he expects the ordinance to be adopted in June.
"This is an issue we've been talking about for several months," the councilman said. "We looked at what we could do as a municipality to ensure the best we can within the limits we have to make our community safe because no one else is doing anything. We think we've got an ordinance that entirely protects the town, but does not run afoul of what the Constitutional limitations on our authority are."
Cahn said Alameda County in California has an almost identical ordinance, and other locations in that state have very similar ordinances. That ordinance was upheld in an federal court, but gun rights activists have since filed a writ of certiorari seeking review by the Supreme Court of the United States, according to a statement from the Second Amendment Foundation. (https://www.saf.org/scotus-review-sought-in-challenge-of-alameda-county-gun-store-ban/)
"In fact, we modeled ours after theirs because theirs has survived a court challenge," Cahn said.

More at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/05/10/new-jersey-township-ban-gun-sales-sensitive-areas/598020002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

Anti Federalist
05-10-2018, 08:29 PM
I had to link through to find it was Piscataway.

oyarde
05-10-2018, 08:33 PM
Ok , how would banning ammo sales within 1k feet of bars , churches and schools make people in piscataway safe ?

oyarde
05-10-2018, 08:36 PM
US Marine captain , what was he with JAG or something ? Sounds like some BS liberal politician looking for a higher office .

Swordsmyth
05-10-2018, 08:42 PM
Ok , how would banning ammo sales within 1k feet of bars , churches and schools make people in piscataway safe ?

We all know how many mass shooters buy a gun and ammo, walk outside and begin shooting everyone in sight.

oyarde
05-10-2018, 08:52 PM
We all know how many mass shooters buy a gun and ammo, walk outside and begin shooting everyone in sight.

Personally , if I have to shower and get dressed for the bar and church I would want to pick up some ammo while I am out . Saves gas .

Danke
05-10-2018, 08:53 PM
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Weston White
05-10-2018, 10:17 PM
“No businesses in the township currently sell firearms or ammunition”

“Someone has to take a leadership position on a local level on these types of issues”

“At the very least, those who sell these weapons of war under lax federal laws”

“we have to make our community safe because no one else is doing anything.”

“We think we've got an ordinance that entirely protects the town”


...Wow, I have never seen so many winning quotes so tightly compacted.

Quite literally, I think we have finally located the village idiot: Township Councilman Steven Cahn.