BELLEVUE, Wash. — June 2, 2026 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF), joined by New Jersey Firearms House owners Syndicate, have expanded a lawsuit difficult the illegal revocation and denial of permits in addition to confiscation of firearms from a number of residents in New Jersey.
The case, Aliaj v. Fort Lee Police Division, was initially filed late final yr after the confiscation of plaintiff Elsid Aliaj’s firearms. The amended grievance expands the case so as to add plaintiffs Martin Hroncich and Luis Rene De La Cruz Franco, who confronted related confiscations and allow denials and revocations in Bergen County, N.J. In every of the Plaintiff’s cases, Bergen County officers prevented them from exercising their Second Modification rights based mostly solely on the grounds that they lived with somebody officers “had considerations” have been prohibited from proudly owning firearms.
“Bergen County’s very clear coverage is: In case you reside with a prohibited particular person, and even somebody suspected of being prohibited, your rights will be taken away. This took the type of allow denials and revocations, and outright gun confiscations,” mentioned SAF Senior Director of Authorized Operations Invoice Sack. “What we discovered after submitting this case on behalf of Mr. Aliaj is that the constitutional abuse he suffered was all too widespread in Bergen County. Extra people, together with new plaintiffs Mr. Hroncich and Mr. De La Cruz began popping out of the woodwork. Every had an identical story: their rights beneath the Second Modification have been taken from them purely as the results of considerations Bergen County officers had about family members of theirs.”
Because the amended grievance states, “…Defendants have adopted, carried out, enforced, and maintained a sequence of associated insurance policies that collectively deprive people, together with plaintiffs, beneath County Defendants’ jurisdiction, from exercising their elementary rights beneath the Second Modification, not premised upon any allegation that Plaintiffs themselves are prohibited, however relatively by affiliation with a cohabitant who’s so prohibited or in any other case disqualified, or by affiliation with a cohabitant who County Defendants understand to be so prohibited or in any other case disqualified.”
“Instances like this affirm what we hear from SAF members in gun-grabbing states like New Jersey on a regular basis: native officers do what they need, when they need, with none respect for the legislation or the Structure,” mentioned SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “We have been excited to initially carry this case on behalf of our member Mr. Aliaj, and we at the moment are thrilled to develop the case to additional spotlight how in depth, insidious and unconstitutional the insurance policies of the Bergen County Police Division and Prosecutor’s Workplace actually are.”
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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt schooling, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the basic rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of the USA Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the ideas of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. Via public schooling initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the proper to maintain and bear arms.
