(AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)
It’s been nearly 20 years since the state of New Jersey approved a bill mandating that so-called smart guns could be the only type of firearm sold in the state once a smart gun model was made available to the public. The law also directed hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money to researchers to develop “smart gun” technology, but despite (or maybe because of) the push, there are still no smart guns available for sale commercially.
The state hasn’t given up, however. Back in 2019, the legislature modified the law, which now requires gun store owners to carry at least one smart gun model once it’s available for sale, though old-fashioned firearms can still be sold without violating the law. To speed up adoption of the technology, the state created a Personalized Handgun Authorization Commission that’s supposed to approve smart guns for sale in New Jersey, and last month Gov. Phil Murphy announced four appointments to the board, including
N.J. makes new push to get controversial smart guns in stores after failing for years
Posted May 10, 2021
A prototype of a smart gun that the New Jersey Institute of Technology spent more than a decade developing. The gun uses sensors to measure a user s hand grip so only authorized users can fire. The NJIT research has ended after running out of funding. (Courtesy of NJIT)
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The 1911 pistol is one of Timmy Oh’s favorite guns.
Oh has experimented on firearms since he was a teenager, looking for ways to make them safer, and he said he was drawn to how the 1911′s “beautiful” design once changed the industry. When the gun was introduced more than a century ago, its improved durability made it a U.S. military mainstay.
Democrat Governor of NJ Pushing for More Radical Gun Control, Hates Your Rights
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New Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)- On Thursday, April 15, 2021, Governor Phil “Free Stuff” Murphy announced statewide legislative and executive measures that will assault the freedoms of New Jersey citizens. New Jersey, with the toughest laws infringing on Second Amendment rights, the new measures will do nothing to curb gun violence, just act as more burdensome laws for responsible gun owners to navigate.
Phil “The Bill of Rights is Above my Pay Grade” Murphy ran on an anti-gun (anti-rights) platform, and it has not been a stretch for him to make good on his campaign promises to the ilk of the Commie Mommies at Moms Demand Action. Murphy does not mince any words about it, even pretending to be in support of lawful firearm ownership, with him stating during a COVID-19 press release last year that “A safer society, for my t
By STEVE LENOX
April 17, 2021 at 3:06 PM
Dr. Jennifer Chuang is currently the Section Chief for Adolescent Medicine at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center.
Dr. Jennifer Chuang is currently the Section Chief for Adolescent Medicine at St. Joseph’s .
Credits: Courtesy of Office of the Governor
By STEVE LENOX
April 17, 2021 at 3:06 PM
TRENTON, NJ – A prominent physician at St. Joseph’s Health has been appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to serve on the Personalized Handgun Authorization Commission. Murphy announced that Jennifer Chuang, currently the Section Chief for Adolescent Medicine at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, will serve on the body responsible for establishing performance standards for personalized handguns and for approving and maintaining a roster of personalized handguns authorized for sale to the public.
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Gov. Phil Murphy is pushing yet another gun control package his third, even if several of the bills
are left over from previous gun legislation pushes.
Those bills stricter ammunition tracking and photo ID requirements for purchases, four-year renewal of gun purchase IDs and lock box home storage rules have something in common besides firearms: They passed the Assembly in 2019 but not the Senate.