Category: New Jersey

Bryan Miller’s idea of justice: getting three years for having a BB gun in your car.  Instapundit thinks tar and feathers are in order.  Maybe it is time to start pushing for airgun rights.

One gun a month passed the New Jersey Assembly by a vote of 47-28 and 4 abstentions.  The vote was held around 6:00 tonight.

Point.  Counterpoint.  For those of you unfamiliar with the process of purchasing a firearm in New Jersey.

1. First you need to get a license, called a Firearm Owners ID (or FID for short) card.  To apply for an FID, you have to call your local police department, who may only staff firearm permitting division part time, so they might not be open every day, or at convenient hours.  The cost is five dollars.
2. In addition to a FID card, you will need a permit to purchase a handgun.  Applications are also filed with the local police department.  Pistol purchase permits are only valid for ninty days after they issue.  The cost is two dollars.
3. You will need to be fingerprinted.  This costs 25 to 50 dollars.  You only have to do this for a first application, but many police departments insist this is not the case.
4. The law states that the police have thirty days to conduct a 13 point background check, and issue or deny an FID application or permits to purchase handguns, but the fact is that it often takes months, and the courts in New Jersey are uninterested in holding issuing authorities to the law.
5. You are required to submit to the police a list of two references, who are not related to you.  They will inquire with these references as to your disposition, drinking habits, mental health, and whether the reference would have any issue with their buying a firearm.  I have been listed as a reference for New Jersey people on FID applications, and I was appalled at the personal questioned asked.  Even in Pennsylvania, for a license to carry a loaded firearm concealed on one’s person, the sheriffs that do check references are far more discrete and respectful.

If requiring this for each and every handgun purchase has not been sufficient to stop criminal trafficking of firearms, it’s beyond insane to believe that adding one more requirement, one that rations the number of purchase permits police may issue, is going to be what does the trick.  Criminals don’t obey laws about robbery, murder, and aggrevated assault.  They definitely aren’t going to obey regulatory laws, no matter how “more illegal” you make them.  We sound like a broken record with this, but many just don’t seem to want to accept it.

From ANJRPC:

On Monday, June 23, the New Jersey Assembly is scheduled to vote on A339 – New Jersey’s latest version of gun rationing legislation, which affects collectors, sportsmen, target shooters, and interferes with the inheritance of firearms.
The legislation, sponsored by Assemblywoman Joan Quigley (D-32), would criminalize the purchase of more than one handgun per month by honest citizens, even though they have already been pre-certified by the state as law abiding citizens after passing a comprehensive 13-point background investigation. Multiple handgun permits could not be used during the same 30-day period, and permits that could not be used before their expiration date would become useless.

The legislation restricts the rights of law abiding citizens, and fails to address the true source of “gun violence” – criminals. A New Jersey court recently invalidated similar legislation brought at the local level, holding that there is no rational relationship between restricting the number of firearms purchased by law abiding citizens and crime.

They are asking that people in New Jersey contact assembly members here.  I guess outlawing muskets wasn’t enough for Bryan Miller.  Seriously, New Jersey folks, you have to stand up and get organized, or it’s all going to over for you.  Don’t depend on Heller to save you.  It might not.  New Jersey already requires gun owners to get a license before purchasing a firearm.  It also requires a permit from the police for each pistol purchased.  My understanding is that process time on these can be up to a year, despite what the law says.  Adding one gun a month to New Jersey’s already insane requirements for purchasing a firearm is worse than useless.

By a vote to 5 to 1, the sweeping gun ban has passed out of the New Jersey Assembly judiciary committee.  For those of you interested, here’s a list of the guns that are banned under this bill.  But oh no, they aren’t out to ban hunting guns.  No sir!  It’s meant to target criminals, not collectors and sportsmen.  You know, like criminals who use the Brown Bess as their firearms of choice, and who use Thompson Center Deer Hunter.  What’s even more disgusting is there’s politicians out there who buy this nonsense hook, like, and sinker.  And even worse are the ones who know this is crap, but do it anyway, because, well, who gives a crap about the constitution, and sportsmen.  Wake up New Jersey, you’re losing your liberty.  It’s time to take action.

See the firearms below that will be banned if this is signed into law (Source is Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs):

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