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A Wall man, a statewide association of gun clubs and the National Rifle Association are taking on New Jersey's gun laws, asking a federal court to throw out the state's restrictions on carrying handguns in a case they hope will reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

Thomas R. Rogers, described as a Wall businessman who services ATM machines in high crime areas, and the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs Inc. filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to have what they said were New Jersey's "draconian" gun restrictions declared unconstitutional.

The lawsuit, supported by the NRA, asserts that New Jersey's restrictions on carrying guns violate the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

New Jersey's law limits the right to carry firearms outside the home to those individuals who can show they have a "justifiable need" to do so, according to the lawsuit.

In order to do that, the individual "must establish specific or serious threats or previous attacks which put him in special and unavoidable danger to obtain a permit from the state to carry a firearm in public," the suit says.

The effect is "to make it wholly illegal for typical law-abiding citizens to carry handguns in public for by definition, these ordinary citizens cannot show that they face a serious or specific, unavoidable threat that poses a special danger to their safety," the suit said.

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2018/02/08/wall-man-gun-clubs-nra-seek-eliminate-new-jerseys-carrying-restrictions/321745002/