August 4, 2022
It’s going to be difficult to separate worlds here, as I’m talking about attending a US LawShield seminar, but only because of my history with the program attorney for my jurisdiction. I assure you my bias is stowed, and really it was my opinion of the attorney that helped cement my joining of the organization […]
Read MoreJuly 12, 2022
Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment “This is a state where it’s a felony to own a slingshot,” said Evan Nappen, a Monmouth County-based lawyer who has a reputation as New Jersey’s fiercest defender of gun rights. You can also do hard time for possessing a BB gun, he said.” By Paul Mulshine | Star-Ledger […]
Read MoreJuly 10, 2022
Updated: Jul. 09, 2022, 1:43 p.m. | Published: Jul. 08, 2022, 8:00 a.m. New Jersey has already changed its carry permitting process following the U.S. Supreme Court decision. But more gun laws are under consideration.AP Photo By Ted Sherman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Last year, 529 people sought permits in New Jersey to […]
Read MoreJuly 1, 2022
N.J Law Limiting Capacity of Guns Ammunition Magazines The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday booted a case challenging New Jersey’s ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines back to a lower court for review in light of its decision last week declaring a constitutional right to carry handguns in public. The move, coming on the heels of the Legislature approving […]
Read MoreJune 21, 2022
How Will NJ’s Gun Laws Be Affected? Evan Nappen has waited for this moment for four decades. A gun rights attorney from Eatontown New Jersey, Nappen literally wrote the book on NJ gun laws — a tome of more than 500 pages — on New Jersey’s Byzantine firearms laws. But his next book might be […]
Read MoreJune 20, 2022
Murphy’s “Safe Storage” Law Bans Self-Defense in One’s Home & Business, Mandates “Re-Education” For NJ Gun Owners By Evan F. Nappen, Attorney at Law Senate Bill 3757 is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee on Thursday, December 09, 2021, at 1:00 PM. This so-called gun “safe storage” bill eviscerates the […]
Read MoreJune 14, 2022
101 Reasons Why You NEED an “Assault Weapon” By Evan F. Nappen, Attorney at Law (When I was Counsel to the NJ Coalition of Sportsman I wrote this piece for the April, 1991 issue of the The Guardian, which was the group’s newsletter. It was later published by Harper’s magazine. Here is an updated version […]
Read MoreMay 10, 2022
What to Expect & How to Protect Yourself from the Murphy Magazine Ban By Evan F. Nappen, Attorney at Law The Murphy Magazine Ban WILL be enforced. It is only a question of what degree it will be enforced against honest gun owners. “The New Jersey State Police corresponded with Breitbart News on December 11 […]
Read MoreApril 5, 2022
A Possible Defense When You Are Prosecuted for Possessing a Shockwave (Despite the NJ State Police “Interpretation”) By Evan F. Nappen, Attorney at Law An email was recently sent out to FFLs in New Jersey with a message from “THE NJSP FIREARMS INVESTIGATION UNIT.” It stated “…Mossberg Model 590 Shockwave, Black Aces Tactical DT and […]
Read MoreFebruary 22, 2022
New Jersey Supreme Court to Hear Nappen Law Firm’s Legal Challenge to New Jersey Carry Permit Law On March 21, 2019, the New Jersey Supreme Court granted certification of a carry permit appeal In Re Application for Permit to Carry a Handgun of Calvin Carlstrom, which raises three important issues: Does New Jersey’s “justifiable need” […]
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