According to Firearm Chronicles
The Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, along with an individual resident and a gun store, are suing New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, Attorney General Gubir Grewal, and State Police Superintendent Patrick Callahan over the emergency orders that have forced gun stores to end sales of firearms in the state indefinitely.
The complaint, filed in federal court, alleges that “prohibiting the sale and purchase of firearms and ammunition is akin to prohibiting the exercise of Second Amendment rights altogether,” and notes that acquiring a firearm is “the most fundamental prerequisite of legal gun ownership.” If you can’t acquire a firearm, how can you keep and bear it?
Despite the centrality of acquisition to Second Amendment rights, Governor Murphy has banned that activity throughout the State of New Jersey with the stroke of a pen, effectively preventing millions of citizens from obtaining a firearm for the first time. Governor Murphy’s ban is flatly contrary to the Second Amendment. Governor Murphy’s statements following the enactment of EO 107 have demonstrated that the Order is grounded in antipathy to Second Amendment rights. Governor Murphy recently remarked on his decision to classify firearm retailers as non-essential that “[a] safer society for my taste has fewer guns and not more guns.” That remark by Murphy came from his press conference on Wednesday, when he was asked about closing the stores during the emergency.