BELLEVUE, WA – Officials in a third New Jersey municipality have passed a resolution to return their portion of the state’s $200 fee for a carry permit, scoring another victory for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and its partners in an effort to partially refund the exorbitant fees to gun owners.
CCRKBA is joined by the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action and the New Jersey Firearms Owners Syndicate in this effort. Already, councils in the Borough of Englishtown and Franklin Township have resolved to return the $150 portion of the fee, which goes to local municipalities.
“We’re delighted that officials in Dumont, a borough in Bergen County, have adopted Resolution 2025-216 to eliminate the municipal portion of the permit fee,” said CCRKBA Managing Director Andrew Gottlieb. “State lawmakers set the high permit fee in an effort to discourage average citizens from applying for carry permits. We joined forces with our friends at NRA/ILA and NJFOS in an effort to provide relief, and we’re happy to say it’s beginning to work.
“But by writing the law to apportion 75 percent of the fee back to local municipalities,” he added, “the state opened the door for this refund effort, and we hope to expand this project to every community in the Garden State. Our purpose is simple. We want to make exercising the right to bear arms as affordable as possible so that no New Jersey resident can be literally disarmed by a burdensome permit fee requirement.
“Working with our colleagues in the Second Amendment community to counter the state’s outrageous fee scheme is a great endeavor,” Gottlieb stated. “It’s almost like playing Robin Hood, and our hats are off to all of the community officials who have shown such loyalty to their constituents.
“We’re going to continue this effort until we’ve succeeded across the state,” he vowed. “We know this isn’t going to happen overnight, but it is going to happen. New Jersey’s beleaguered, law-abiding gun owners deserve no less.”