Late last week, the Second Amendment Law Center submitted a timely and compelling amicus curiae brief in the case of Koons v. Platkin, the lawsuit challenging New Jersey’s “sensitive places” law that makes a permit to carry a firearm in public invalid and useless throughout much of the state.
Second Amendment Law Center, Gun Owners of America, Inc., Gun Owners Foundation, Gun Owners of California, The DC Project, Tennessee Firearms Association, Heller Foundation, and California Rifle & Pistol Association all worked together and joined as amici on the brief. Other groups that work with 2ALC, such as the Second Amendment Foundation, also filed amicus briefs.
“New Jersey politicians are among those openly hostile to the rights that the Second Amendment guarantees, particularly to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Bruen case,” remarked 2ALC President & Senior Legal Counsel Chuck Michel.”
The over-designation of areas as ”sensitive” where carry permits are invalid is a gambit being tried in multiple jurisdictions as a flanking maneuver to get around Bruen’s mandate. Similar laws have been passed in states such as Hawaii, and one is pending in California. But declaring an overwhelming range of places as “sensitive” was specifically called out and condemned in the Bruen decision by Justice Clarence Thomas.
2ALC is proud to support this effort, as we have done through amicus brief campaigns in Illinois, California, Delaware, Hawaii, and other jurisdictions - with more to come.
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