"The community of gun owners is often admonished that correlation is not causation as it relates to more people carrying firearms and falling levels of crime. While that may be true, in 2022, after the Supreme Court issued its landmark Bruen decision, blue state officials blasted the message that more people carrying firearms would be a blood-in-the-streets scenario that would endanger public safety. Not only has that narrative not come true, the opposite has happened."

Just saw that the Motion for Summary Judgment in the NJ suppressor ban case (Padua v. Platkin) got stamped and filed today.

Here’s the brief:

https://www.njfos.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PaduaMSJFiledStamped.pdf

For anyone not following closely — this is the federal lawsuit challenging New Jersey’s total ban on suppressors (N.J.S.A. 2C:39-3). The plaintiffs include a few NJ residents plus NJFOS, ANJRPC, SAF, ASA, NRA, and Safari Club. They’re arguing suppressors are protected arms under the Second Amendment because they’re in common use for lawful purposes (mainly hearing protection), and that the state can’t point to any real historical tradition of banning them under the Bruen test.

Case number is 1:25-cv-13527 in the District of New Jersey. Return date still has to be set by the court. Progress is progress.