December 2023<\/a> against Mr. Vinroe\u2019s holding companies for the JSD Supply and Eagle Shows businesses, Mr. Vinroe ultimately put the companies into bankruptcy rather than accept responsibility for his conduct. But while the 2023 complaint succeeded in shuttering those businesses, Mr. Vinroe continues to operate gun shows and other companies that sell ghost gun products to New Jerseyans. The complaint filed today seeks to stop Mr. Vinroe\u2019s unlawful conduct and hold him personally accountable.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the state\u2019s chief law enforcement officer, protecting the public from gun violence is my top priority. Untraceable ghost guns pose a clear and direct threat to public safety\u2014especially because ghost guns are frequently the choice of those who are trying to evade our firearm laws and avoid background checks,\u201d said Attorney General Davenport. \u201cJordan Vinroe deliberately caters to this market. Our 2023 lawsuit put two of his companies out of business, but that hasn\u2019t stopped him from trying to evade accountability in new ways. Mr. Vinroe does not get to hide from our laws\u2014which is why we\u2019re taking action today to hold him personally accountable for his role in endangering public safety by selling ghost gun products to New Jerseyans.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Unserialized firearms, commonly known as \u201cghost guns,\u201d are illegal in New Jersey. Nonetheless, operating the Eagle Shows gun show series and JSD Supply ghost gun parts business, Mr. Vinroe deliberately sold ghost gun products to New Jersey residents at gun shows he located near the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border. Mr. Vinroe specifically targeted New Jerseyans with regular billboards on the New Jersey Turnpike, luring across the river New Jersey customers who could not readily obtain ghost gun products otherwise.<\/p>\n
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As today\u2019s complaint alleges, Mr. Vinroe has actively sought to evade responsibility for his unlawful conduct. In response to the Office of the Attorney General\u2019s lawsuit against Mr. Vinroe\u2019s holding companies for the JSD Supply and Eagle Shows businesses, Mr. Vinroe put the companies into bankruptcy. But as the complaint explains, Mr. Vinroe still continues to operate gun shows and other companies that sell ghost gun products. The \u201cnew\u201d Eastern Gun Expo, where Vinroe continues to be seen, runs the same gun shows in the same locations, on the same schedule, even using the same phone number as Vinroe\u2019s Eagle Shows gun shows.<\/p>\n
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Mr. Vinroe was the self-proclaimed largest retailer of ghost gun handgun frames in the country, and New Jersey law enforcement has arrested dozens of his New Jersey customers returning from his gun shows, often with parts to make numerous ghost guns at a time. He has been among the largest, if not the largest, suppliers of products to make ghost guns to New Jersey residents. He has extracted millions of dollars in personal profit.<\/p>\n
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\u201cJordan Vinroe deliberately targeted New Jerseyans to buy his illegal products to make illegal ghost guns,\u201d said SAFE Acting Director Jeremy Ershow. \u201cCorporate bankruptcy does not shield people who personally engage in wrongdoing. Mr. Vinroe violated our laws and hurt our state, and we will hold him accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ghost guns are frequently recovered at crime scenes in New Jersey. Recent reports suggest that the number of ghost guns recovered at crime scenes in New Jersey increased eightfold between 2019 and 2022\u2014from 55 in 2019 to 433 in 2022. Even after federal law changed in 2022 to classify ghost gun kits as firearms, ghost gun recoveries remain steady and high, with subsequent data showing recoveries averaging 251 annually from 2023 through 2025.<\/p>\n
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Today\u2019s complaint, filed in Superior Court in Mercer County, seeks an injunction to stop Mr. Vinroe\u2019s actions, monetary and punitive damages, and other relief, including the State\u2019s abatement cost of preventing further harm from Mr. Vinroe\u2019s products in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
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SAFE is a first-in-the-nation office with the specific mandate of bringing civil enforcement actions against firearm industry members to hold them accountable for violations of the law that harm the health and safety of New Jersey residents. For example, in December 2024, the Office of the Attorney General and SAFE sued Glock in connection with the ability to use its handguns as machine guns by inserting a \u201cswitch.\u201d In October 2025, the Office of the Attorney General and SAFE, along with the Division of Consumer Affairs, sued Sig Sauer in connection with product defects in its P320 pistol model that cause unintended discharge.<\/p>\n
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The Attorney General and SAFE are represented by Assistant Attorney General David Leit of the Division of Law\u2019s Special Litigation Section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorney General Davenport Files Civil Complaint Against Pennsylvania Gun Show Owner for Endangering Public Safety \u00a0 Vinroe Actively…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-244100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}