NJ Firearms Owners Syndicate

06/17/2026

06/02/2026

The case, Aliaj v. Fort Lee Police Department, was originally filed late last year after the confiscation of plaintiff Elsid Aliaj’s fi****ms. The amended complaint expands the case to add plaintiffs Martin Hroncich and Luis Rene De La Cruz Franco, who faced similar confiscations and permit denials and revocations in Bergen County, N.J. In each of the Plaintiff’s instances, Bergen County officials prevented them from exercising their Second Amendment rights based solely on the grounds that they lived with someone officials “had concerns” were prohibited from owning fi****ms.

Link to document here:https://saf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Aliaj-Amended-Complaint-6.2.26.pdf

06/02/2026

Today, NJFOS, along with SAF, has amended our complaint against the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Mr. Aliaj was stripped of his rights simply for cohabiting with someone who was wrongfully rendered a prohibited person, which itself was an abuse of authority. After filing our case, a clear pattern of abuse emerged, and after several additional plaintiffs came forward, we took the necessary step to amend our lawsuit to include these additional plaintiffs.

"The fact pattern surrounding the clear abuse of authority by the Bergen County Prosecutor in completely restricting Mr. Aliaj's rights warranted the filing of our initial complaint. In response, numerous additional plaintiffs came forward," said Joe LoPorto, director of legal operations at NJFOS. "These additional plaintiffs make clear that the bully tactics employed by the BCPO are not a one-off, but evidence of a pattern and practice that proves our need for the broad injunctive relief demanded in our complaint. These policies and practices are completely unmoored in either state law or any legal framework consistent with the Second Amendment."

11/24/2025

Today, November 24, 2025, NJFOS joined with the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, and the Gun Owners Action League in Massachusetts to file an important brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the matter Wolford v. Lopez. The Supreme Court granted cert in Wolford this term after the 9th Circuit upheld Hawaii’s no-carry default rule with respect to private property held open to the public, the so called ‘vampire rule.’

In 2022, the Supreme Court put an end to interest balancing in Second Amendment cases in the landmark case NYSRPA v. Bruen. In the years since, more activist judges in places like the 9th Circuit in the captioned matter, and more recently in the 3rd Circuit in the consolidated cases of Koons v. Platkin and Siegel v. Platkin, have twisted the clear guidance from the Supreme Court in Bruen.

The Supreme Court, in striking down Hawaii’s vampire rule, can right the ship and squarely address the procedural error that many lower courts in the U.S. are committing. Our brief hopes to help draw the Court’s attention to this major issue.

While the question before the Court in Wolford is very narrow, there is a significant opportunity to impact many future cases in the Garden State and across the U.S.

Read the full brief here:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1046/385612/20251124141741988_24-1046%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20ANJRPC%20NJFOS%20NYSRPA%20GOAL.pdf

11/24/2025

More coverage on our quest to end permitting fees across the state.

11/06/2025

ICYMI - On Monday, we joined with our partners at the Second Amendment Foundation and filed a federal lawsuit against the Fort Lee Police Department and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.

With all the work for the election running in the background, we can walk and chew gum, and stay focused on what we do best:

Suing tyrants and gun grabbers.

Read the press release here👇👇👇

https://www.njfos.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/PressRelease-GunSeizureCase.pdf

Read the full complaint here 👇👇👇

https://www.njfos.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/119123228406.pdf — with Ray Rodriguez and 4 others