New Jersey residents who are complete civilians actually can legally own handguns in this state, but only the retired cops and politically-connected ever get carry permits. It’s a rather lengthy and arduous process just to obtain the pistol purchase permit as it is already, but that’s still not enough for governor seatbelt the limousine liberal here. He just wants another vapid feel-good law, the “one handgun a month” law that is, rather than do anything to really punish violent criminals and gang members in this state. The ironic thing is that it often takes more than a month to obtain the pistol purchase permit under the existing law in New Jersey, due to how some police departments treat the applicants.

Governor seatbelt is the same guy who also revoked the death penalty in 2008, which actually spared the life of a twofold cop killer who had been on New Jersey’s death row for several years already and had exhausted much of the appeals process. This just goes to show what his priorities are – punish the guns and hug the criminals.