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Why is it so hard to enact any kind of gun law? Because they interfere with a massively profitable arms industry.  The continuing debate over Second Amendment rights and gun control have overlooked the fact that the real issue is how much money is at stake. Americans buy more guns than anyone else on the planet, making the U.S. the target market for the arms industry. The gun corporations bankroll the NRA, according to a report by the Violence Policy …

This article first appeared on the Huffington Post. New Jersey’s law that limits handgun purchases to one per month was just upheld by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, creating a federal law foundation for other states to follow. So far, California and Maryland have one-gun-a-month laws along with the Garden State, which has among the strongest gun laws in the country. The challenge to the New Jersey One Gun law came from a unit of the NRA, the …

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.

A federal appeals court has turned away the NRA in its latest attempt to derail any law that limits gun ownership, with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 30 ruling that New Jersey’s “one-gun-a-month” law does not violate the Constitution.   NRA Pulls . . . the BB Gun The New Jersey law at issue limits handgun purchases to one per month per person, in an effort to stem stockpiling and black market activity. Under the state …

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 …