Lakewood, Toms River Leading New Jersey with Gun Permit Applications

By FrumNews.com

Toms River and nearby Lakewood are leading New Jersey, according to newly released data. The number of Permit Applications skyrocketing since the attacks last year on Simchas Torah in Eretz Yisroel and the rise of antisemitic threats, as Yidden across New York and New Jersey have been legally arming themselves.

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against New York’s restrictive gun laws—which were among the strictest in the country—were unconstitutional. Since then, New York and New Jersey have loosened gun restrictions leading to a flood of applications proceeding in the Frum communities in the Tri-State area.

According to released data made available by the state of New Jersey, since 2020, NJ Gun Permits, there have been thousands of applications in the townships of Lakewood and Toms River, respectively, and just over a thousand applications in nearby Jackson, NJ.

In Teaneck—which had many massive violent protests by anti-Semitic gangs targeting the frum community—gun applications spiked with over 1000 applications (for context, there were only 13 applications prior to Simchas Torah in 2023)

While official numbers aren’t available for New York, gun licenses and permits have skyrocketed in New York’s Frum communities of Boro Park, Flatbush, Crown Heights and Williamsburg. As well in the Five Towns, Monsey and Rockland County.

Since loosening restrictions, New Jersey and New York have implemented many ‘Gun-Free’ zones, making it a felony crime for licensed permit holders to carry their firearms in many designated locations. The NYS Jewish Gun Club and Frum members involved with 2A613 are challenging many of these ‘Gun-Free’ zone restrictions, which ban legal permit holders, in court.

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FrumNews.com would like to remind our readers, that obtaining your concealed carry permit is one aspect, but make time to practice, practice and practice. There is never enough training that one can do. Purchase a proper home safe for when you are not carrying. And most importantly Daven and be mispalel that you will never have to use it.