David Codrea:Offer to rescind N.J. ‘smart gun’ mandate reeks of deception

A leading New Jersey citizen disarmament-pushing politician says she’s considering repealing a law she sponsored mandating “only smart handguns can be sold there within three years of being sold anywhere in the nation,” The Washington Post reported Friday. But the “offer,” presented as “compromise,” comes with strings attached.

“Democratic state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, who sponsored the landmark 2002 law, said she would ask the legislature to drop the mandate if the National Rifle Association, a fierce critic of smart-gun technology, pledged not to stand in the way of the weapons' development and sale,” the article reports.

Putting the ball is NRA’s court is a cynical political move designed to make them appear unreasonable if they don’t take her publicly-offered bait. After all, one of the prime self-justifying excuses Engage Armament’s Andy Raymond used to repudiate his critics, before he went on his alcohol-fueled armed rant, was “You are not supposed to say a gun should be prohibited. Then you are being no different than the anti-gun people who say an AR-15 should be prohibited.”

“No one is saying they should be prohibited,” this correspondent noted in an attempt to correct that unfounded, self-serving accusation. “We're saying they shouldn't be mandated.”

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