A Second Amendment group won a preliminary injunction May 16 against parts of a New Jersey gun control law that restricts the ability of those with carry permits to actually carry firearms in public.
The state immediately filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit of the new ruling in Koons v. Platkin, court file 22-7464, which was decided in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey. Parts of the law, which was backed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, were already blocked by various courts.
Democratic leaders rushed through the law, known as Chapter 131, in the state legislature after the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in June 2022 in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen that laws preventing law-abiding individuals from carrying firearms in public for self-defense cannot be upheld unless they are consistent with the nation’s historical firearm regulation traditions….