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A recent gun buyback program, covered by Lawyers.com, cost the state of New Jersey $324,000. It collected more than 2,600 weapons, including 700 illegal ones.  Lawyers.com journalist Michele Bowman also reports that a New Jersey appellate court recently upheld a gun sales law. This regulation limits residents to buying just one gun per month. Take our poll and let us know what you think about these efforts to reduce guns in the community.

  People savor the tastes of craft beer. At least one million people in the United States brew their own beer at home. Could you take this hobby and turn it into a thriving business? Maybe. But similar to tobacco and firearms, alcohol is a tightly regulated industry. Whether you want to make beer for a hobby or would consider an entrepreneurial enterprise, Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine explains the laws of what you can and cannot do with your home …

A nightclub has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a medical student killed by a drunk driver who spent hours drinking at the club. Daniel Musser was a sailor stationed at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, Conn., when he went to the Ultra 88 nightclub at the Mohegan Sun casino in nearby Uncasville. He drank for several hours before getting in his car, driving the wrong way on the interstate  and slamming head-on into a …

As Congress ponders an assault-weapons ban and universal background checks, local authorities across the country are using gun “buyback” programs to try to decrease the numbers of guns in their communities. And like just about everything else in the gun control debate, the buybacks are becoming a bone of contention between proponents of stricter controls and those who resist them.   Thousands of Weapons Collected New Jersey has held several buybacks, with the latest, held the last weekend in January in …

A former World Cup soccer player won a $1.2 million jury award for an accident on the highway in which he was hit by wheels that came loose off of a truck. Manuel Vasquez was driving a limo taking a client to the airport when a wheel assembly weighing 800 pounds came loose from a tractor-trailer. The wheels bounced over the median line, damaged six cars and crushed Vasquez’ vehicle. Vasquez sued the owner and operator of the big rig …