A second New Jersey municipality is declaring its opposition to gun control, including a new state law that allows for removing weapons from someone judged a threat to themselves or others.

The Sussex Borough council voted 5-0 on Tuesday to adopt a resolution in support of becoming a “Second Amendment/lawful gun owner municipality," two weeks after a similar resolution was approved without opposition in West Milford.

West Milford adopted its resolution Dec. 4, six days before a deadly shooting spree in Jersey City killed four people, including a Jersey City police officer and three inside a grocery store.

The day after the shootings, Gov. Phil Murphy reiterated his call for federal gun legislation to lessen gun violence. The two suspects in Jersey City, both of whom were killed after a three-hour standoff with police, brought four guns into the store and had one in a van parked across the street.

Unlike West Milford, the council in Sussex opted not to characterize the borough as a “sanctuary" for law-abiding gun owners, though regardless of the wording neither resolution overrides state and federal laws regulating weapons and ammunition.

However, Sussex Borough’s resolution is identical to West Milford in one key way, in asserting that the municipality “opposes gun control, ‘gun safety’ legislation, or ‘red flag laws,’ state, federal or local."

New Jersey’s red flag law, formally known as the Extreme Risk Protective Order Act of 2018, took effect in September. Similar laws exist in at least 17 other states.

The New Jersey law allows for a judge - in response to a request from family or household members, or law enforcement - to order the removal of guns and ammunition from someone who “poses a significant danger of bodily injury to self or others,” as described in the statute.

The legislation received crossover support from many Republicans, passing the Senate by 32-5 and Assembly by 59-12.

Christian Heyne, vice president of policy at Brady — formerly the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence — criticized the Sussex Borough resolution and defended red flag laws as “a tool used by law enforcement to ensure that individuals who are most at risk to hurt themselves are not able to.”

“When over three out of five gun deaths in this country are death by suicide, ‘opposing’ this tested tool that has proven itself effective and life saving is irresponsible and just flat out wrong,” Heyne said via email.

Sussex Borough voted on the pro-gun resolution at the behest of State Assemblyman Parker Space, R-24th District.

Space, who voted against the red flag law, said he sees the resolutions as a way to make a statement against the “gun-grabbers in Trenton.”

“Obviously, a resolution doesn’t supersede state law. It’s saying, enough is enough. We’re going to defend the Second Amendment,” Space said.

Space has asked the freeholder boards in Sussex and Warren counties to consider resolutions in opposition to gun control, and said he anticipates additional municipalities also taking a stand.

County and local jurisdictions in several states have adopted pro-gun resolutions this year.

Sussex Borough is less than one square mile and is home to 1,800. It is about 25 miles from West Milford, which is in Passaic County.

Rob Jennings may be reached at rjennings@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @RobJenningsNJ. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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