Press Releases : assault weapons

AG Platkin Leads States in Defending Massachusetts’s Gun Laws

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin led a multistate amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in support of Massachusetts, which is defending its commonsense gun safety laws from a Second Amendment challenge.

AG Platkin, AG Jennings, AG Henry Defend Commonsense Gun Safety Laws in Federal Court

New Jersey Joins Delaware, Pennsylvania in Supporting Restrictions on Assault Weapons, LCMs.

The Office of the Attorney General Defends States’ Rights to Limit Deadly Weapons

New Jersey Co-Leads Multistate Action Backing Delaware’s Restrictions on Assault Weapons and Magazine Capacity;Joins Supreme Court Suit to Keep Firearms Away from Domestic Abusers For Immediate Release: August 24, 2023 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J....

Acting AG Platkin Announces 11-Year Prison Sentence for Middlesex County Man Convicted of Illegally Transporting Guns from Georgia into New Jersey

Investigation by NJSP and ATF Led to Seizure of Five Handguns and an Assault Weapon For Immediate Release: September 27, 2022 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney GeneralDivision of Criminal Justice- Pearl Minato, Director For Further...