Who Can — and Can't — Own and Carry a Handgun in New Jersey and New York Category: Legal & Legislative Read time: ~5 min If you live in the tri-state area and you've ever wondered whether you're actually allowed to own a handgun — let alone carry one — you're asking the right question in the right order. New Jersey and New York run two of the strictest licensing systems in the country, and both were rebuilt after the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision. The rules changed. A lot of the...

The Real Roadmap in NJ and the Tri-State Estimated read time: ~7 minutes Deciding to keep and bear arms for self-defense isn’t a purchase. It’s a commitment — to the law, to a unique skill set, and to a standard of judgment you’ll carry for the rest of your life. In New Jersey specifically and the broader Tri-state, that commitment also runs through one of the most demanding legal frameworks in the country. We get asked some version of the same question almost every week: ”What’s the actual...

Where NOT to get your training There’s a lot of free firearms advice out there. Some of it is excellent. Most of it is wrong, dated, but wrapped in enough confidence that you can’t tell the difference until you’re trying to unlearn it ten years later. Bad training doesn’t only hurt your scores. It programs your body with wrong muscle memory that in the best case scenario only costs you fractions of a second on the draw, and in the worst case scenario may put your life at risk, especially in a...