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New Jersey sues Las Vegas gun dealer over high-capacity magazine sales to undercover agent
The state is suing a Las Vegas gun dealer for allegedly selling six high-capacity magazines — including a 100-round drum magazine for an AR-15 — to an undercover investigator despite knowing the transactions were illegal, the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday.
Gurbir Grewal, the attorney general, filed the three-count complaint this week in state Superior Court in Newark. In it, Grewal alleged the Nevada-based New Frontier Armory broke New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act and violated state regulations on illegal products when it sold outlawed magazines of 15, 30 and 100 rounds to state investigators twice in the last 10 months.
On both occasions, investigators bought the banned magazines through the company’s website and picked them up at a New Jersey mailing address, according to the complaint. Grewal sent a cease-and-desist letter between the purchases demanding that the company stop marketing, selling and shipping the products to New Jersey residents. The company acknowledged the letter but apparently disregarded it, leading to the lawsuit.
"We intend to hold New Frontier Armory — and any other companies who engage in similar conduct — fully accountable," Grewal said at a Wednesday news conference in Trenton. "With today's action, we're once again showing this industry, across the country, that we're not afraid to use our civil enforcement authority and all the tools at our disposal."
The state wants New Frontier to immediately stop selling high-capacity magazines to New Jersey residents and give up the money it made through the illegal sales. It is also seeking civil penalties of $10,000 per violation and $20,000 for each subsequent violation.
"We're going to hit them where it hurts, which is their pocketbooks," Grewal said.
The state is suing a Las Vegas gun dealer for allegedly selling six high-capacity magazines — including a 100-round drum magazine for an AR-15 — to an undercover investigator despite knowing the transactions were illegal, the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday.
Gurbir Grewal, the attorney general, filed the three-count complaint this week in state Superior Court in Newark. In it, Grewal alleged the Nevada-based New Frontier Armory broke New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act and violated state regulations on illegal products when it sold outlawed magazines of 15, 30 and 100 rounds to state investigators twice in the last 10 months.
On both occasions, investigators bought the banned magazines through the company’s website and picked them up at a New Jersey mailing address, according to the complaint. Grewal sent a cease-and-desist letter between the purchases demanding that the company stop marketing, selling and shipping the products to New Jersey residents. The company acknowledged the letter but apparently disregarded it, leading to the lawsuit.
"We intend to hold New Frontier Armory — and any other companies who engage in similar conduct — fully accountable," Grewal said at a Wednesday news conference in Trenton. "With today's action, we're once again showing this industry, across the country, that we're not afraid to use our civil enforcement authority and all the tools at our disposal."
The state wants New Frontier to immediately stop selling high-capacity magazines to New Jersey residents and give up the money it made through the illegal sales. It is also seeking civil penalties of $10,000 per violation and $20,000 for each subsequent violation.
"We're going to hit them where it hurts, which is their pocketbooks," Grewal said.
