BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, in conjunction with the New Jersey Firearms Owners Syndicate and National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, is celebrating the 12th New Jersey municipality to pass a permit-to-carry fee rebate resolution.

A grassroots movement that began over the summer is spreading across the Garden State. On Nov. 25, Howell, N.J. joined 11 other towns in refunding their citizens’ permit-to-carry fees.

Post-Bruen, New Jersey lawmakers imposed additional and onerous fees to their permit-to-carry application process. A $50 fee was allocated to a victims compensation fund (since found unconstitutional by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals) and $150 to local municipalities. Englishtown was the first in the state to pass a resolution refunding the $150 fee back to applicants. The Howell council unanimously (with one member absent) resolved to refund $125 of its portion of the fee.

“There are now a dozen municipalities in the Garden State that have decided to respect the rights of their citizens by not imposing onerous fees on them to exercise a constitutional right,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “As more towns resolve that the law passed by the New Jersey legislature is unconstitutional, it weakens the grip the anti-liberty forces have on the people. We’re proud of the grassroots efforts of our members and the members of our partners — the NRA-ILA and NJFOS — in this fight.”

In addition to Howell and Englishtown, the following municipalities have also nullified their permitting fees: Beachwood, Butler, Dumont, Franklin Borough, Hardyston, Hopatcong, Medford Lakes, and Vernon. Cresskill and Readington passed ordinances, not just resolutions.

Howell Councilman Ian Nadel, who led the effort, observed, “The Second Amendment is the only Amendment that seems to be under repeated attack, especially in the state of New Jersey.”

Over $125,000 per year in exorbitant and unconstitutional fees have been eliminated for nearly 200,000 New Jerseyans with the passage of this resolution.

If you’re interested in raising a permit-to-carry rebate resolution in your jurisdiction, reach out to our boots-on-the-ground partners at NJFOS HERE. A copy of the joint policy brief with model resolution can be found HERE.

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.

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