In New Jersey and many other states, individuals who have been convicted of certain felonies are not permitted to purchase, own, or possess any type of firearm. Restoring your Second Amendment rights is essential, and our attorneys are fully prepared to help.You have to petition the court system that took your civil rights away to have them reinstated. Of course it is up to a judge. Gun crimes in Middlesex County are crimes that involve gun possession and use. While protecting the Second Amendment's right of citizens to bear arms. The new law (NJS 2C:39-5) makes it a First Degree crime for a person to knowingly possess a machine gun handgun, rifle, shotgun or assault firearm. Second Amendment protects the right of individual citizens to keep and bear arms apart from service in a militia. The Second Amendment provides all citizens the right to own and possess firearms. However, this right is not without its limits.