Gun rights groups filed for en banc rehearing of the Koons v. Platkin case after a hostile Third Circuit ruling. Full court review has been requested to address constitutional violations.
The Koons/Siegel v. Platkin case has been at the Third Circuit since mid-2023. Now in 2025, this appeal only concerns the preliminary injunction, not the case’s merits. This injunction temporarily halts parts of New Jersey’s anti-gun laws. With recent Supreme Court decisions, legal experts anticipate a resolution might be near. Is there an end in sight?
No matter how weak the attempt, the NJ Attorney General, Matthew Platkin, seems relentless in his letter writing to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. When his office is not busy defending our unconstitutional “sensitive places” laws by citing historical laws deeply rooted in racism, they never miss an opportunity to cite poorly-executed rulings from other notoriously anti-gun circuits.
On October 25, 2023 at 11AM Eastern Time, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the now-combined Koons/Siegel v. Platkin. In June of this year, a three-Judge panel of the 3rd Circuit reinstated large portions of the New Jersey carry killer bill that laid out a long list of sensitive places that are off-limits to concealed carry of firearms. The decision was outside of the bounds set forth in the Bruen decision and clearly unconstitutional. Now we have our day in court.
Although we shouldn’t have to “qualify” to exercise a core civil right, the State of NJ has eased the PTC qualifications to a more reasonable level and extended the deadline to December 31, 2023, thanks to the hard work of Dan Schmutter and Scott Bach of ANJRPC, Evan Nappen, and Anthony Colandro (Gun for Hire).
Have a New Jersey PTC? You’re a target now.
If you have a PTC or are planning to get one, this article is for you. The 2nd Amendment is YOUR right and it’s incredibly important to exercise it intelligently and responsibly for myriad reasons.
Wasting no time, today 2A attorney Daniel Schmutter filed an emergency motion seeking a TRO and a PI against New Jersey’s new ninja PTC qualification requirements.
The new training and qualification standards for New Jersey permit-to-carry holders have been released. There has been nothing but mass confusion amongst members of the public, gun ranges, lawyers, and even the police. Not to mention, the actual qualifications require the athletic acumen of a ninja to pass.
Keeping in line with the 3rd Circuit’s expedited schedule, the State of New Jersey has submitted their brief in defense of New Jersey’s “Carry Killer” law. Big surprise, they still contend that we shouldn’t be able to carry anywhere and somehow it satisfies Bruen.
In a disappointing, but not entirely unexpected, given who the judges are, decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a partial stay against Judge Bumb’s recent preliminary injunction in the now-consolidated cases of Koons v. Platkin and Siegel v. Platkin. These cases challenge just about every aspect of New Jersey’s carry killer law that makes most of the Garden State off limits to civilian concealed carry.
Judge Bumb went to great lengths to write a well-thought opinion in the matter of a preliminary injunction against New Jersey’s so-called carry killer law which invalidates public carry of firearms in the vast majority of the state. As she pointed out, the legislators who got the bill passed, as well as the state attorneys that are currently defending the new law, have not done any research and have nothing to support their claims of constitutionality.
Yesterday, May 16, Judge Bumb issued a Preliminary Injunction in the now-consolidated Siegel and Koons carry killer cases that falls squarely on the side of 2nd Amendment freedoms. Right up there with the Bruen decision, this is one of the biggest and best 2A court rulings the Garden State has ever seen. The case isn’t over and could take some time to reach a final conclusion but the PI is a great indicator that we have some permanent freedom coming our way!
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