New Jersey AG Sues Gun Store, PA Gun Show Promoter Under State’s Firearms Nuisance Law

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin is suing a gun store and a gun show promoter under a recently adopted New Jersey law that allows his office to sue members of the gun industry he deems to be acting as a public nuisance. Mr. Platkin filed a pair of lawsuits in New Jersey Superior Court on Tuesday. One case goes after a New Jersey firearm store called FSS Armory, Inc. The second case goes against a gun show event organizer called Eagle Shows, and a firearms parts maker called JSD Supply, both of which are operated by the same proprietor. Mr. Platkin derives justification for these two lawsuits through a law passed in New Jersey in July of 2022 that authorizes the state’s attorney general to bring lawsuits against gun industry members that he deems contribute to unlawful or unreasonable conduct, or “knowingly or recklessly create, maintain, or contribute to a public nuisance in this State through the sale, manufacturing, importing, or marketing of a qualified product.”...