Fort Lee police confiscated Elsid Aliaj's guns. The amended complaint says Hroncich and De La Cruz lost permits the same way — not for anything they did, but for who they live with.
SAF and the New Jersey Firearms Owners Syndicate filed the amended complaint in federal court after Elsid Aliaj's confiscation exposed a pattern. Bill Sack, SAF's senior director of legal operations, said Bergen County's policy is blunt: if you live with a prohibited person — or even someone officials suspect might be prohibited — your rights can disappear.
The complaint alleges county defendants adopted policies that deprive residents of Second Amendment rights "not premised upon any allegation that Plaintiffs themselves are prohibited, but rather by association with a cohabitant." Permit denials, revocations, and outright seizures followed.
Alan Gottlieb called the practice "extensive, insidious and unconstitutional" — the kind of local improvisation gun owners in captive states report when federal courts are slow and state capitols are hostile.
For New Jersey gun owners, the case is a warning: your household is now a liability scan. Document every interaction with licensing authorities. Join SAF and NJFOS. Do not assume a clean record protects you when a roommate, spouse, or adult child becomes a bureaucratic pretext.
The litigation is live. The policy fight is whether association can substitute for adjudication — Bruen says no; Bergen County acted yes.
"Your record can be clean. Bergen County can still take your guns because of your address."← More Stories
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