Bruen changed the carry permits for us. Are you saying if SCOTUS rules suppressors as ARMS we would then need another NJ court case to get NJ to change the rules around the categorical ban?
Yes, that is exactly what Iām saying.
There were cases still ongoing 2 years after the Bruen decision. See Francisco Vs Cooke.
Yes, NJ did eventually remove justifiable need from the statute when they added all the other restrictions on carry - so you could get a permit, but it didnāt do anything for you if you wanted to carry the whole day while going to normal places to do normal things.
I donāt remember having to wait long after the Bruen decision. June 23, 2022 SCOTUS decides Bruen, June 24, 2022 NJ AG removes ājustifiable needā requirement. Just a month or 2 later thousands of new carry apps start flooding the system. I had my application in by like October. Then they changed things the end of the year and instead of going to the county Judge it is now handled at the local PD. Picked up my 1st permit at the county courthouse in February '23.
Iām no lawyer, so I donāt fully understand how Supreme Court rulings affect existing laws, but Iām hoping a favorable suppressor ruling would have a similar practical effect to Bruen in New Jerseyāforcing the state to reconsider laws that may no longer be constitutional.
And the 15 years at that courts
The AGās office issued a directive to ignore JN about a week after the Bruen decision was published, but it still existed in the statute until the carry killer bill was passed that December.
I was one of the early applicants. I did my qual the week before because I figured it was coming imminently, and would have submitted my application sooner, except NJSP changed the form the day after I got the signatures from all my references so I had to start over.
I have a vz-58 waiting on the decision of Cheeseman v Platkin, My local FFL is hopeful they will remove the restrictions pretty soon because he told me recently he had is 3 year state inspection, and this time around, state police didnāt bother checking his high-cap magazine books.