What kind of lawyer are you if you thought a federal judge would get involved?
Moreover, you're not familiar with NJ's pre-trial relief. She was already denied PTI and the Atlantic Prosecutor has denied a Graves Act Waiver.
People who say, "learn the rules" are a joke. PA firearms codes together are less than a dozen pages. NJ firearms codes fill a book a half-inch thick, say nothing of varying county-splits on interpretation and enforcement, and several statutes contradictory or vague on their face (for example, the sentencing guideline mandates a finding as to a "permit to possess" but nowhere in the law is there even such a thing... NJ has permits to purchase and to carry, but not possess).
Asking ordinary citizens to "learn" is paramount to asking them to have law degrees and several years of practice before avoiding pitfalls. Moreover, Ms. Allen's story does not encourage citizens to obey the law, but to circumvent it... had she willfully lied to the police she would have been better off than if she had spent hours pouring over non-resident laws of another state in order to do her best to comply... she may have read the exemption that allows one to possess and transport to "their place of business", thinking it applied to her, only to find out case-law has narrowed interpretation to almost vestigial text.
