8. Jeffrey Muller
In 2010 Jeffrey Muller was mistaken for another Jeffrey Muller–a New York money broker–and kidnapped from a pet store he owned in New Jersey. He managed to escape from his captors somewhere in Missouri and eventually made it back to the Garden State, albeit a little bruised and beaten. He applied for a concealed carry permit to protect himself but, in New Jersey, one must articulate “justifiable need” for having a permit to carry a weapon and a judge rejected Muller’s permit application. Apparently, being kidnapped and beaten doesn’t meet the threshold for “justifiable need”. The decision was later overturned, and after what I’m sure was tens of thousands of dollars later in legal fees, Muller was granted his concealed carry permit.
