We are dedicated to protecting our clients’ rights.
The Firm’s focus is on criminal defense with a concentration in the area of firearms, knives and weapons. However, the Firm is proud to provide a full range of criminal defense services for all crimes and in all courts.
We also provide professional services for Hunting & Fishing Violations, Domestic Violence, Firearm licensing, Expungements (clearing your record), Firearm and Property Seizures, and Forfeitures.
Criminal defense and restoration of rights: crim charges, firearm licensing/forfeitures, Domestic V, Fish & Game, expungements. Hours by appointment.
Evan F. Nappen, Esq. has dedicated his life to fighting for gun rights and honest sportsmen. He has practiced law since 1988 and was one of the first attorneys to ever get a federal injunction against a state gun law. He knows first hand what rotten laws do to honest folks. He wrote and produced the DVD, GUN CONTROL – OUT OF CONTROL: How Gun Laws Make Honest Citizens Criminals, and authored a number of gun rights books, including NAPPEN ON NEW JERSEY GUN LAW, NEW HAMPSHIRE GUN, KNIFE AND WEAPON LAW and THE DECLARATION, as well as numerous articles that have appeared in American Handgunner Magazine, Blue Book of Gun Values, NSSF Range Report, Tactical Gear Magazine, American Gunsmith Magazine, The New Gun Week, BLADE Magazine, Sporting Knives, Knives Annual, and Harper’s Magazine. He has been quoted in numerous national newspapers and has been a guest on many television and radio shows, including Court TV, Glen Beck – The Blaze, Judge Janine – Fox News, Wolfe Blitzer – CNN, Real Talk – WWOR, It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle, Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk, Armed American Radio, Gun For Hire Radio, and Cam & Company/NRA News. He is currently a Board Member of the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, Inc. He is an NRA Certified Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, Personal Protection Inside and Outside the Home and Home Firearm Safety Instructor. He has taught gun law to other attorneys, law enforcement officers, paralegals, and gun dealers in recognized law seminars, including the NRA National Firearms Law Seminar, NRA Range Development Seminar and for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Evan loves to hunt, fish, boat, and camp, and to collect, use, and study guns.