By Theresa Inacker
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy shockingly admitted that he did not consider the Bill of Rights when issuing his executive orders closing gun ranges, closing churches, closing parks and imposing other arbitrary draconian measures. Murphy claimed on Tucker Carlson’s show on Wednesday night that the Bill of Rights was something “above his pay grade.”
Murphy is a proven gun grabber, signing a multitude of firearms restrictions the moment he got into office, including a ten-round magazine limit.  New Jersey gun owners already know that he disregards the Constitution with regularity. 
Why would you expect anything less from a Governor who openly disregards civil rights?
This is the slippery slope Second Amendment advocates warned you about.
Gun rights proponents are the leading civil rights advocates in this country. Which groups have filed lawsuits against the overreach of government? Second Amendment groups. Which groups have mounted the most vocal opposition? Second Amendment groups.
No governor has the authority to violate fundamental civil rights protected by the Constitution. Murphy’s Attorney General, Gurbir Grewal, routinely shares on social media that he will use his power to arrest and charge you for virus crimes if you fail to follow Murphy’s impotent edicts.
In this tweet, he brags about his enforcement actions against those who have violated Murphy’s coronavirus executive orders:
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┻┳| Pass it on!Recent enforcement actions: https://t.co/GEteqkN4IV
— AG Gurbir Grewal (@NewJerseyOAG) April 15, 2020
Power grabbing governors need to realize something very important. All cooperation with lockdowns, to date, has been voluntary. And make no mistake, that cooperation will not continue unfettered forever. We the People will decide our fate. We are free people.
Following the lead of Michigan, a protest was scheduled in New Jersey for Tuesday, April 28 in Trenton, New Jersey near the State House. Yet Facebook’s censors have cancelled the invitation for “coordinating harm and promoting crime.”
It remains to be seen if the protest will proceed peaceably or if those who organized it will be arrested. 
New Jersey Second Amendment advocates will continue to lead the way against unconstitutional laws. We bring experience and deep conviction to the table like no other group. This is a sisterhood, a brotherhood and those bonds are the tightest. Further developments will be reported.
Theresa Inacker, an attorney and Second Amendment advocate, is a member of the US Supreme Court bar, the New Jersey Delegate to The DC Project, and serves as the Communications Director for the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners.
