In layman’s terms: A federal judge says NSSF can continue their lawsuit challenging New Jersey’s enforcement actions against Glock. No ruling has been made
On April 2, U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi allowed the NSSF (National Shooting Sports Foundation) to re-open its lawsuit against New Jersey Attorney General, Matthew Platkin, saying that the state’s position that it wouldn’t bring enforcement actions is essentially not credible.
We reported on this in February, when NSSF initially filed to re-open the case.
In Wednesday’s order, the Biden-appointed judge noted, “[t]he Attorney General downplays the fact that, despite claiming it would not do so, it brought an enforcement action against one of NSSF’s members.”
A New Jersey federal judge has allowed NSSF to reopen its lawsuit against the state's gun industry liability law, saying that "[t]he Attorney General downplays the fact that, despite claiming it would not do so, it brought an enforcement action against one of NSSF’s members" pic.twitter.com/p5REb0Hv73
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) April 2, 2025
(In the vernacular, we’d normally call this dishonest.)
He added, “…for the reasons set forth below, the Court finds that the new enforcement proceedings filed by the Attorney General — which had not been filed at the time the Third Circuit issued its decision — constitute extraordinary circumstances that warrant reopening the case.”
The ardently anti-gun New Jersey Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Glock Inc. and Glock Ges.m.b.H, its Austrian parent company in New Jersey Federal District Court on Nov. 16, 2022, under New Jersey’s nuisance law (N.J. Stat. § 2C:58-35).
We will continue to cover this story.
