New Jersey’s Gun Laws: Taking Innocent Single Mothers Away From Their Children

“Once again, New Jersey has shown why it has some of the worst gun laws in the country. A Philadelphia mother of two is facing a minimum three-year prison sentence simply for bringing a legally obtained gun within New Jersey state lines. Last fall, Shaneen Allen was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in Atlantic County. Not realizing that her Pennsylvania gun license did not apply in the state of New Jersey, she voluntarily gave the police officer her firearms license and told him that she had a gun packed away in the back of her car.”