At a time when the Left is fawning all over immigrants, you'd think officials in a state like New Jersey would be understanding of someone who has English as a second language. Ordinarily, they might, but not when they have a chance to screw with someone's gun rights.
And that landed them in enough of a world of hurt that they buckled under completely.
Last month, I wrote about the Second Amendment Foundation's lawsuit against officials in Fort Lee, New Jersey, after they sent the police to take guns from a man after his wife sought treatment for pregnancy-related nausea. During the visit to the emergency room, though, she said some things in her second language – English, to be specific – that providers found a bit concerning.
They held her for 72 hours, but that wasn't all they did, as I've already mentioned.
Hence, lawsuits and stuff.
Well, it didn't take long for the city to decide that maybe they had screwed up.
In SAF's lawsuit against Fort Lee, NJ's attempt to confiscate someone's guns due their wife's mental health treatment, the town decided after learning that the Attorney General won't represent it that maybe settling is a good idea: https://t.co/lAqT7fLIOU pic.twitter.com/zVimqmN7HM
— Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) December 5, 2025
Honestly, this is about the only real option they had beyond getting beaten like a piñata in court.
There was no red flag order presented to the gentleman in question, no warrant or anything else, nothing. He complied because he feared being arrested, but the police showed no legal authority to demand the guns in the first place.
The fact that town officials then told the poor man that his only options were to store them outside of the home, sell them, or destroy them, all because his wife said something in her second language that made medical providers uncomfortable, is inane.
But, then again, this is the Left.
For all their talk about valuing rights, particularly for drug smugglers and illegal immigrants, the Left doesn't blink at destroying the rights of law-abiding Americans who might want to own a firearm.
It should probably be noted that the wife was apparently allowed to go home at the end of her 72-hour hold. She wasn't deemed to be a danger to herself or others. Had a red flag order been issued, all he'd have to do was state she didn't have access to the firearms.
Instead, he had to undergo this absolute travesty, and now Fort Lee has buckled because they never really had a choice. Even the New Jersey Attorney General's office didn't want to touch this one, which should tell you just how badly the city screwed the pooch.
Honestly, about the only thing they could have managed to do that was dumber would involve a Somali crime cartel and a billion dollars or so of Medicaid money.
Of course, this is New Jersey. I rule nothing out on either Somali criminals, anti-gun shenanigans, or literally any kind of stupidity. Sure, that was Minnesota, but New Jersey tends to have even more derp at the highest levels of power.
