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NEW JERSEY STATE POLICEMEN’S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD PATRICK COLLIGAN State President MARC KOVAR Executive Vice President Peter Andreyev 1st Vice President Michael Pellegrino 2nd Vice President Mark Aurigemma 3rd Vice President Eugene Dello 4th Vice President Richard Kott 5th Vice President Frederick Ludd 6th Vice President Luke Sciallo 7th Vice President Frank P. Cipully 8th Vice President Ed Carattini, Jr. 9th Vice President Michael Freeman 10th Vice President Bryan Flammia 11th Vice President Robert Ormezzano 12th Vice President Michael Kaniuk Financial Secretary Margaret Hammond Recording Secretary John Monsees Treasurer Terrance Benson, Sr. Trustee Rodney Furby Trustee Charles Schwartz Trustee Patrick Moran Trustee Joseph Macones Trustee Michael Tardio Trustee Michael Heller Trustee Keith Curry Sergeant-at-Arms Christopher Ricciotti Sergeant-at-Arms John Granahan Sergeant-at-Arms Andrew Pacucci Sergeant-at-Arms Joseph Nigro Sergeant-at-Arms Mark Piercy Sergeant-at-Arms Christopher Ebert Sergeant-at-Arms Brian Brownlie Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Palmentieri Sergeant-at-Arms Stephen Warren Sergeant-at-Arms Joseph Sles Sergeant-at-Arms 4 NEW JERSEY COPS ■ OCTOBER 2018 Following the rules for retired offi cers to carry Yes, by now you have probably reviewed the rules for retired law enforcement officers to carry firearms, which the NJ Attorney Gen- eral’s office released on the afternoon of Oct. 12. Yes, a Patrick few are vastly different than Colligan what you were assuming to be correct when you woke up on the morning of Oct. 12. But most of the rules are exactly what many of us thought they would be all along. Yes, these “new” rules contradict some of the opinions we have seen in the past. The problem is that many of those opin- ions were offered by private attorneys, law enforcement “sources” and self- proclaimed experts on law for retired of- ficers to carry. I was insistent that we add a disclaimer in the March issue of NJ Cops Magazine when Local 600 was attempting to clarify the rules for you, because the NJ State PBA never published an opinion on this matter. The waters regarding this issue have been pretty murky lately. Unfortunately, none of the folks who offered their respec- tive expertise are going to stick around to defend you in the event of an incident. I wish you could point to their “opinions” as a defense, but as we know in law enforce- ment, that just won’t work. I also subscribe to the theory of being tried by 12 rather than being carried by six, but the problem was that there were just too many theories floating around out there. In fact, one of those opinions from the very agency tasked with enforcing the rules required legislation to overturn its contention that somehow our brothers and sisters who served their careers on our state’s college campuses were not eligible to carry into retirement at all. So now, whether or not you agree with the new rules (fully realizing most of you are in the “not” category), we have a four- page inventory of opinions that are the new baseline for retired officers to carry. And, yes, we realize that some of the new information contradicts HR 218. We aren’t happy with a lot of letter in that law, either. But now we have a clear standing about what you need to do personally to comply with the retired carry rules, and what we need to do legislatively to correct them. At the very least, these are rules you can certainly depend on, and they finally lay down the law pretty clearly and concisely. Once again, and as usual, New Jersey tops a list. We can all agree that between the new magazine bill, the rules for retired officers to carry and gun legislation in general, New Jersey has what are likely the most convoluted and contradictory laws in the nation regarding firearms.  To see the NJ Attorney General’s report concerning retired law enforcement offi cer permits to carry fi rearms, please visit the PBA website or go to www.njspba.com/news/read.aspx?id=298