krucam
Ultimate Member
Another great quip from the NJFO/SAF brief
Finally, in 2007, the State made it a second-degree crime to carry a gun without a permit—the same level of criminality that attaches to (for example) aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. See 2007 N.J. Laws ch. 284, § 1; see also N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 2C:12-1(b)(1), 2C:39-5(b). Thus, a person who uses an unlawfully carried handgun to (justifiably) stop a burglary in progress is literally committing a more serious crime than the one he or she is stopping. See N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2C:18-2 (burglary is normally a third-degree crime).