1 State’s Plans to Force Gun Shop Owners to Sell Guns They Don’t Want to Sell
Imagine you’re a gun shop owner who follows all the laws.
You sell to people who jump through the loopholes they need to so they can get the guns they’re allowed to have.
Then more laws start piling up and soon the state you live in decides they’re going to force you to sell a gun you don’t even want to sell.
Sounds unfair doesn’t it.
That’s what store owners in New Jersey are expected to do if Senator Loretta Weinberg’s new bill goes through.
Her bill would require shop owners to sell smart guns, even if the gun store owner didn’t want to:
State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg said she intends to introduce a bill Thursday that would replace New Jersey’s 13-year-old “smart gun” law that gun enthusiasts have blocked from implementation.
Weinberg (D-Bergen) said she will seek the repeal of the 2002 law requiring New Jersey firearms dealers to sell only smart guns three years after they are available on the market.
Although the fingerprint technology exists that renders a weapon unworkable by anyone other than the owners, gun rights activists have intimidated gun shop owners from selling smart guns, in fear of “starting the clock” on the three-year countdown.
Weinberg said she will introduce a measure that repeals that mandate and replaces it with a requirement that dealers carry at least one smart gun in their inventory.
Weinberg, who announced in May she was working on a new law, made the announcement on what that legislation would do during Sunday’s edition of “60 Minutes.”
In an interview Monday, Weinberg said she hopes to get the law repealed and replaced before the end of the legislative session in January.
The state law boosted investment in developing smart gun technology, but the guns are still not available anywhere in the country.
“It is a very complex issue, so we move ahead so we can continue to have more of an investment in research and development,” Weinberg said.
During President Obama’s visit in Newark Monday, Weinberg said she intends to share with him information about the technology to gain his support. “We need the (Obama) administration to help invest in this great new technology.”
Weinberg, who has served in the state legislature since 1992, said this bill and gun control matters in general have generated more objections than any other issue she has tackled.
“This is one issue that arouses more vitriol than any other, and I have been involved with a woman’s right to choose, indoor smoking and home-schooling,” she said.
What she likely doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to understand, are smart guns are not foolproof.
Additionally they’re also horrible for self-defense because if another person attempts to use it for protection it might not allow them to use the weapon.
Not exactly what you want for a gun designed to keep you safe.
At the end of the day her bill is nothing more than another exercise in totalitarianism and will hurt far more people than it helps.