With leftist states in a frenzy, introducing new measures to infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, it should come as no surprise that New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is throwing his state’s hat in the ring in the race to become the country’s biggest dumpster fire. Murphy’s new proposal to tax a Constitutional right by imposing increased taxes and fees on firearms and ammunition is further igniting controversy over gun rights, and critics are already calling it an assault on the Second Amendment.
Let’s put this in perspective, however, for conservatives who, for whatever reason, choose to remain in New Jersey and contribute to its economy. Murphy’s position when it comes to taxing his constituents into the ground is well-established. Currently in his second term, the Democrat governor has presided over the country’s highest property tax rate, the third highest individual income tax rate, and an overall tax competitiveness rank of 49th in the United States, sandwiched between New York and California. But neither the overwhelming strain this puts on New Jersey residents nor his proclivity for trampling upon their rights is unpredictable from a man who has publicly suggested that businesses and families should either get with his pro-tax program or get out.
“If you’re a one-issue voter and tax rate is your issue, either a family or a business, if that’s the only basis upon which you’re going to make a decision, we’re probably not your state,” Murphy said in 2019.
Murphy’s arrogant and flippant attitude towards those he governs tells you everything you need to know about whether New Jersey is a place you want to raise a family or invest in a business. Knowing this, what expectations could one possibly have from this Bolshevik when it comes to respect for their right to bear arms? Spoiler alert. The answer is none.
Murphy’s two-pronged approach to targeting gun owners in an attempt to price them out of their Second Amendment rights includes a 2.5% excise tax on all firearm sales and a 10% tax on ammunition purchases, a seemingly genius marketing strategy had he been employed on behalf of Pennsylvania retailers across state line. I’m just saying.
What’s Murphy’s Law? What can go wrong will go wrong, and the symmetry of comrade bozo’s name is almost more than I can bear, as he’s not stopping with increased taxes alone. Murphy plans to significantly hike fees on firearm purchaser identification (FID) cards and related permits, an insult to the Founders and the Constitution itself but a more expensive insult if he gets his way. Details behind the proposed hikes include FID cards jumping from $5 to $100, with carry permits rising to as much as $400 from their current price of $50.
“This is about keeping our communities safe and ensuring that those who choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights contribute to the broader public good,” Murphy said during a press conference.
Every law-abiding, tax-paying American contributes to the broader public good. This proposal has nothing to do with safety and, in his own words, everything to do with singling out those who choose to exercise a Constitutionally protected right.
Since there is seemingly no end to the leftist circumvention of our civil liberties, I say it’s high time conservative states start playing these same games. If we should impose punitively upon the First Amendment, for example, taxing speech that is considered gender-affirming, pro-Hamas, or supportive of any group or ideology that flies in the face of American values, would Democrats cry foul and start waving the Bill of Rights? You bet they would. But if it isn’t an infringement upon the Second, then surely it couldn’t be an infringement upon the First. Two can play.
At the end of the day, if this is how you want to live, enjoy the rotting produce of the Garden State.
Of course. The dems are run by corporate billionaires. The party hacks are wealthy and white. They refused to applaud a cancer survivor because he was black.
They are all for only the wealthy having rights.
I think your analysis is severely out of date. All the billionaires anybody knows about are on the Trump side of the aisle.
The democrats are run by a few hyper-leftist foundations, like the Ford foundation. That’s where they get their money from, and that’s who they listen to. Carville said something very revealing recently, basically on the order of “we wanted to do this, but the Ford Foundation wouldn’t let us.” It struck me because who in the hell is the Ford Foundation to think that they can control how half the political representatives in the country can act?
Well, they’re where the democrats get their money. They can’t get it from Wall Street anymore, Blackrock and Jamie Dimon etc are all on the Trump Train. They can’t get it from big business CEOs, because Zuckerberg and Musk and the rest of them are on the Trump Train. They can get some money from Hollywood, and the rest from big foundations.
Ever wonder where this whole trans insanity came from? It was nowhere, and then it suddenly became the focus of the whole country. How does that happen? I’ll bet you a reasonably large amount of money that the whole fiasco came about because one of the big foundations’ directors has a kid who came out as “trans”, and since then “trans rights” became THE ISSUE for the left. Drag Queen Story Hour, guys in womens’ sports, all this stuff that no common citizen had ever considered, was suddenly and instantly elevated into the defining cultural conflict of our times. And it sounds so obvious now, that one major funder said “no more money unless you focus entirely on trans stuff”, and the rest is history.
To anyone who wants to take our country back, step 1 should be abolishing political parties.
What would you expect of an asshole from Massachusetts? Massholes ruin everything.
This is how the silver spoon, limousine liberal set of the northeast determines “good moral character.” By how much money you can afford to spend.
I know a lot of people from New Jersey. The people of New Jersey keep voting for this. For the life of me, I don’t know why.
I know a lot of people from New Jersey too and I don’t know anyone talking about moving there. It’s not even considered. The state is right across the delaware river but it’s like a different country.
New Jersey – the only state where you are not allowed to pump your own gas.
It was like that in Oregon last time I was there.
Not to worry the pos who calls itself void thinks it knows how to handle such Gun Control zealots…Only problem is the pos has never once stated how it intends to do that. So void here’s you chance you gutless pencildick…State exactly how you deal with Gun Control otherwise one can assume Gun Control has you on your knees.
Cry more you still offer nothing of value much like Miner. You lack power and control you will be controlled by the powerful. Or in your case just those who can manipulate your emotions. Lol and dick size insults? What are you a Democrat Karen?
You desperate pathetic Gun Control lint licking azz kisser trying to tie me with minor49iq…try a whole lot harder little man.
Back on topic…The History of Gun Control repeats itself in NJ….
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3eEJR3X-LcI&feature=shared
You failed to demonstrate how you are not the mirrored version of Miner there Karen. Now dance for my entertainment
We have a natural, civil, and human, right to life. But, not a right to a specific condition, or quality, of life.
And for exercising the right to life (continued breathing), is historicaly, and traditionally, taxed: business; income; property; social security; medicare; fees for using certain public features. Raising the amount of taxes and fees can make any activity unaffordable by wealth challenged.
So, the proof of being in good standing, being of proper moral character, of being allowed to continue to exercise a right to life is income stream and/or accumulated wealth. Anyone not meeting the standard should be consided to be of questionable character, and limited to the most limited of life.
… says the party that “cares about the poor”.
The cognitive dissonance hurts.
“being of proper moral character“
Well, I guess that puts Donald Trump out of the running, five kids by three different baby mamas, self-admitted triple adultery, actual whoremongering, not to mention 34 convictions of business fraud.
Murphy won reelection by only about 85,000 votes, 51 – 48. He knows he’s on his way out and he’s going to stick it to his enemies at every opportunity as he goes.
Yeah, I kinda wonder if this is just fresh meat, er, tofu to keep his leftist base fired up.
That was essex county which magically found enough votes to put the goon back in. That’s as close as it can get and they won’t let it come down to a late night vote recount again/
ATF’s History on Waco is Full of Misinformation and Coverup.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/atfs-history-on-waco-is-full-of-misinformation-and-coverup/
“ATF’s History on Waco is Full of Misinformation and Coverup.”
I lived in Fort Worth at the time of the Waco raid. The failings of the feds (and state National Guard) were simply unbelievable. However, what was an armed assault on peaceful citizens should have been the beginning of the much heralded, mythical “boogie”. But the band played on. Then came the repeat of federal assault on other peaceful citizens at “Ruby Ridge”, and the band played on. Following that, there were two further suppression raids on citizens, called “Bundy 1 and 2”. And the band is still playing.
So what? There ain’t gonna be no boogie, Lou.
“two further suppression raids on citizens, called “Bundy 1 and 2”.“
Bundy was a welfare queen who was overgrazing taxpayers lands, a Reagan-appointed federal judge found him guilty back in the ‘90s but Bundy had refused to pay and was unlawfully occupying taxpayer owned BLM managed lands.
CPRC: The Many Ways Concealed Carry Permitees Enhance Public Safety.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/cprc-the-many-ways-concealed-carry-permitees-enhance-public-safety/
Prosecutors Drop Charges then Refiles on Woman Who Claims Self-Defense.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/prosecutors-drop-charges-then-refiles-on-woman-who-claims-self-defense/
More Gun Owners Take NYPD to Court Over Concealed Carry License Delays.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/more-gun-owners-take-nypd-to-court-over-concealed-carry-license-delays/
Ah good they are finally getting attention. Milani v. NYC was a bitch to get standing figured out but now it actually has to be heard.
Impact of Trump ‘Gender Ideology’ Order on Firearm Transactions to Be Determined.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/impact-of-trump-gender-ideology-order-on-firearm-transactions-to-be-determined/
Pensacola Hotel Employee Shoots Attacker/Stalker in Self-Defense ~ VIDEO.
“Pensacola, FL – A female employee at the Holiday Inn in downtown Pensacola defended herself with a legally owned firearm after being attacked in the hotel’s laundry room on Monday morning.
Pensacola Police say 35-year-old Marquise James had been stalking the woman for some time, using social media and other means to harass her. Despite previous warnings to leave her alone, James confronted the woman at her workplace and, this time, immediately began punching her. Fearing for her safety, she drew her handgun and shot James once in the leg.
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https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/pensacola-hotel-employee-shoots-attacker-stalker-in-self-defense/
Yes, 40 cal, we are aware that a site named Ammoland exists and publishes shooting-related articles. We don’t need you to read it for us.
I didn’t ‘read’ anything for you or ‘us’.
I may be wrong, but I am gonna go out on a limb here and assume you know what ‘scroll’ means, what ‘don’t click on the link if you don’t want to’ means, and what ‘don’t read this is you don’t want to’ means.
ATF Transparency Act Seeks To Speed Up NFA Process Or Force Approvals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_x2w3q4mX8
I escaped Jersey 5 years ago and have been enjoying my new found freedom. My mother’s family had been living there since before the 1740s. My parents and siblings have all fled from there. Many if not most don’t vote for the crap that goes on there. I watched my town go from Republican to single party Democrat in the 90s as folks from Philly came flooding in. I often saw signs of voting irregularities during my final years there and highly doubted we could no longer obtain one position within elected government despite much infighting among Democrats. The state even reached out and harassed me a couple years later because I had failed to turn in my license plates after my move. Without my knowledge the suspended my “driving privileges” and placed my name in a national database. I hope the entire place washes out into the Atlantic.
National database of license plate keepers?
The NJ Dems have to keep the kickbacks flowing to the Five Families in “consulting fees”. The NY and NJ Dems are merely the political wing of organized crime.
I know someone with a parking ticket in Newark NJ from the 80s who couldn’t get a license in another state because NJ wanted their money. A 25 dollar ticket ballooned to 500 dollars with fees and interest. Of course she had no idea it was out there until she moved and tried to get a license.
Good place to stay out of.
Same here. Sold and moved out of Jersey 15 years ago. Never looked back. Tired of the congestion @ the Jersey Shore, tired of the brash, rude and behaviorally stupid running the state, county and town where we grew up.
Tired of the ever increasing taxes, where you keep paying and paying and get nothing from it.
Tired of the stupidity of those who run the state–mostly Demoncrats–who fight any sense of logic.
I once wrote to Christie when he was in office, asking him why we need school administrators for every single school district, when other states get by with one for three or four districts. Why we pay for street lights when other states don’t have street lights, thereby cutting down the city tax; never got a response.
So sorry for those who want to get out but can’t afford it. Take a loss and leave. The grass IS greener on the other side; just don’t go to the grass in NY or PA because you’ll still deal with the same garbage as Jersey.
All this whining and moaning and you don’t even mention California? California’s newest tax is 11% for both ammo and firearms. (Yes, it is being challenged.) The cost of a CCW, when you add in the cost of the mandatory 16 hour class for new applicants and the cost of the application and LiveScan is now over $500, and in some parts of the state, edging towards a grand.
Realistically NJ is a top 10 not top 5 infringement state.
They’re trying though.
Unfortunately they are not the only one and admittedly they can do a lot in a short amount of time if unchecked like Washington, Colorado, or Delaware
A carry permit in NJ currently costs $200 for a 2 year permit. You must also pass a qualification test that runs from $100-$225.
Prior to the Bruen ruling a permit was $50.
Their post Bruen is half the cost of pre Bruen NY state (not city). Sucks but I wish that’s all it costs across the river.
5 yr CCW is $75.00 here in Alabama. Plus, a CCW is not required although I keep one just for crossing state lines. All of the states surrounding us have reciprocity with us. We dare defend our rights.
SIG SAUER Announces They Won’t Stay Quiet About the Safety of P320 Pistols Any More.
https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/business/sig-sauer-announces-they-wont-stay-quiet-about-the-safety-of-p320-pistols-any-more/
At this point any gun owner living in New Jersey either agrees with all these rules or is hoping just one more election will turn the tide.
We are supposed to have a constitution that New Jersey signed onto and agreed to follow. It just goes to show a piece of paper is no match for determined force.
……..so we have to undo 100+years of infringements within 3 after getting the first viable method of doing so ever all in courts dominated by unfriendly judges and entrenched political and bureaucratic systems intent on keeping the status quo?
Some of us are stuck in New Jersey due to our jobs and our wives’ jobs.
(Oops, I only have one wife, but you know what I meant!)
As soon as we retire, we will flee the state–although strangely enough, due to quirks in New Jersey’s tax laws for people who work for nonprofits, my taxes will actually go up when I leave New Jersey*, but it’s still worth leaving NJ to escape to a free state.
*That’s because New Jersey taxes retirement contributions for nonprofit workers while we’re working, punishing nonprofit workers by raising our taxes sky-high while we’re working, but then withdrawals are tax-free if you stay in New Jersey. When I move to another state, those retirement contributions that were already taxed by New Jersey will be taxed a SECOND time by the other state (AFAIK), which is how New Jersey punishes retirees for leaving New Jersey! Please let me know if I’m wrong about this–I’d love to be wrong about being taxed a second time by the state I move to when I retire!
Sadly, the costs for the fid and carry permit have already been implemented. My son just renewed his carry permit as it expires every 2 years so I know the exact current cost. $75 to the State for filing the application, $150 to the local PD for the background check, $200 to complete the required course, as well as the cost of 50 rounds of ammunition needed for the live fire qualification. EVERY TWO YEARS!
When I lived in New Jersey back in the 90s, things were a lot different. When Dem Gov. Jim Florio was elected in 1989, his first order of business was substantial tax increases. When the sales tax went from 6% to 7%, all hell broke loose and there were “Hands Across NJ” protests all across the state. The GOP won a landslide legislative victory in 1991, and immediately rolled back the tax increase, and Florio lost his re-election bid in 1993.
Smash cut to 2002, after leftwing Gov. Jon Corzine and the Dems in the legislature returned to power. The promptly raised the sales tax back to 7%. The reaction: crickets. They’ve been in power (with the interregnum of Chris Christie) otherwise uninterrupted ever since. New Jerseyans are totally on board with the left, and that’s not going to change any time soon.
They didn’t raise NJ sales tax all the way back to 7%, they raised it to 6.66%, proving that the New Jersey governor is the antichrist, LOL. Well, actually it’s something like 6.65555% because even politicians were apparently afraid of the symbolism of 666 (the mark of the Beast), but the tax rate becomes 6.66% when you round it up.
I’ve never quite followed how taxes on “arms” are constitutional. How is that anything but a Poll Tax under a different name.
If you tax a constitutional right, and you are unable to exercise that right without paying said tax, than its a right denied.
How the often useless supreme court continues to allow this to go unchecked is beyond me.
“I’ve never quite followed how taxes on ‘arms’ are constitutional.”
They aren’t actually, they are only ‘determined constitutional’ based upon laws that are ‘preemptively constitutional’.
An very short abbreviated, for sake of time and space, history of how we got taxes on firearms:
It begins with Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution, the “general Welfare clause”. In that it says ‘[The Congress shall have Power]’ “To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States”
That’s actually the only taxing power the government has constitutionally. And constitutionally the only thing government can spend those taxes on is ” to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States” – there isn’t any grants to NGO’s or any of that other stuff ‘authorized’ constitutionally that tax dollars can be spent on.
As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist #83: “This specification of particulars [the 18 enumerated powers of Article I, Section 8] evidently excludes all pretension to a general legislative authority, because an affirmative grant of special powers would be absurd as well as useless if a general authority was intended.”
In other words, the founders intended in writing the constitution that the federal government only have the specific enumerated powers defined in the constitution.
The enumeration of specific powers logically excludes all powers not listed. The Constitution also being a legal document and the law of the land – This is the legal maxim ‘Designato unius est exclusio alterius’ which means “the designation of one is the exclusion of the other”. It follows from this construction that Congress has the authority to tax and spend for the general welfare, but the enumerated powers limit the federal government’s spending power to specific objects. The founders made this clear for their intent, that the federal government was to be limited to those powers specifically enumerated in the constitution. And, the founding era society pretty much stuck to limiting government to those powers enumerated.
Then came the 19th century. And from there on the federal government created (and still continues in modern day times) ‘an affirmative grant of special powers’ to them selves for various things by passing laws basically granting themselves ‘powers’ they were never suppose to have because they are not enumerated specifically in the constitution. But for firearms, starting in 1919 to tax the sale of guns and ammunition by manufacturers, producers, and importers, by passing laws, and along comes the The National Firearms Act in 1934, that taxed the transfer of machine guns, silencers, and sawed-off shotguns (the type of weapons favored by organized crime at the time).
And here we are today. Ta Daaaaa!
“Assault Weapons” of the Second Amendment: Part 3. (note: this is part 3. She has other videos highlighting that multi-shot and repeating, i.e. semi-auto and full auto, firearms existed before, during, and after the ratification of the second amendment and the founders were well aware of such and aware that technology was advancing to make them better and more plentiful and their wanting it to happen.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNfwCgjlzCo
Negligent Discharge at Indiana Range Serves as Reminder of Holster Safety.
Statement on Recent Firearm Discharge Accident at Top Guns (in the last few days).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dh_I_GJLG8
ABC Shuts Down Pro-Leftist Polling Site That Claimed Harris Had Better Chance Than Trump. (note: this site was part of the many false narratives the left-wing media tried to push to deceive the public. It was always wrong, it used false biased data intended to deceive.)
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FiveThirtyEight claimed Trump stood just a 29 percent chance of winning the national popular vote against Harris’ 71 percent. It also claimed Trump had a meager 1 percent chance of winning in a “landslide” of more than 350 electoral votes.
These predictions could hardly be further from the truth. While Trump didn’t technically win a ‘landslide’ by the polling site’s standards, he won the electoral college 312-226 — winning all seven swing states, flipping six that went for former President Joe Biden in 2020. He also won the national popular vote with 49.9 percent to Harris’ 48.4 percent, becoming the first Republican president to win the popular vote in 20 years.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/07/abc-shuts-down-pro-leftist-polling-site-that-claimed-harris-had-better-chance-than-trump/
The Trans Trend Trundles On.
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Minnesota State Rep. Liish Kozlowski (D-District 8B) likened the transgender sports ban to ‘state-sanctioned genocide,’ and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), while insisting he is ‘not dumb,’ also claimed, ‘[And] I have a 13-year-old daughter, and she plays basketball. And I’m not afraid that she’s gonna get mowed down.’ The tide is turning on this issue, so what is with all the bitter clinging from the Left?
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https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2025/03/07/the-trans-trend-trundles-on-n4937687
Yet ANOTHER Study Shows Medical Instead of Mental Health Treatment of Gender Dysphoria Is Harmful.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/07/yet-another-study-shows-medical-instead-of-mental-health-treatment-of-gender-dysphoria-is-harmful-n3800495
If his daughter is a freak of nature like him, she probably won’t get mowed down. Not likely the same for some others.
3 Simple Steps to DESTROY the Constitution (They’re Already Doing It!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGabBlznno
The smile says it all…
Let’s price anti 2A politicians out of existence!!
These bastards will never stop. He’s in his second term, so obviously the vast majority of voters in that hellhole want what he’s dishing out, otherwise, he wouldn’t’ have gotten rehired.
Just FYI, you have completely misstated and misunderstood “Murphy’s Law.” Murphy was the lead aronautical engineer for Hughes Aircraft, and he created his “law” as an exhortation to new engineers under his training and supervision, to “idiot-proof” (some would say “GI-proof) their designs. The correct wording of “Murphy’s Law” is: “If is possible to do it wrong, eventually someone will.”
The idea was to design equipment so there was no way to use, or repair, or assemble it, incorrectly. An example is the electrical and electronic plugs that can only be inserted correctly because of their shape.
When interviewed by Science Magazine several decades ago, he stated that the mistaken version of his law always annoyed him because it was a pointless fatalistic statement that did nothing to improve performance.
Pos state
Just over one year ago, I finally escaped from New Jersey and the Communist-controlled Northeast for the free state of Florida. I cannot express in words how happy I am. BTW, it cost me about $130 and it took less than two weeks to get my Concealed Carry License – as it should be in all 50 states.