I'm soooo glad that when I was living in NJ that my parents weren't as STOOOPID as this guy's father. Sheesh, he was an amateur. Before I left NJ in late 2000, I had about 10 guns (including a couple of scoped "sniper rifles" - what a BS phrase that is), plus at least 7,500 rounds of ammo (not including .22LR, which the police and media in NJ would duly report as "ammunition" the same as if it was .50 BMG API), including over 1,000 hollow points and about 150 .30-'06 AP, not to mention about 3 dozen magazines in excess of 15 rounds capacity (a jailable offense in the PRNJ) and lots of reloading equipment and components (doubtless the smokeless powder would be reported as "explosives").
I am very glad not to live in NJ anymore. When I passed the "Welcome to Delaware" sign on the DMB, I told my wife "now you won't have to bail me out of jail." She gave me the bug-eyes, at which point I explained the magazine laws (carefully omitting anything about the hollow points). She asked how many mags I had, and I said, "oh, about 200 years in Rahway worth" (Rahway is a state prison, FYI). More bug-eyes. She then asked if Texas (where we were moving) had laws like that, and I told her, "no, Texas is in America."
BTW, mere ownership of hollowpoint ammo in NJ is NOT illegal. However, traveling with them IS, unless you can prove that you're going to the range, or going home on the way back from the gunshop, or that you're traveling through the state on the way to somewhere that they're legal...which, of course, you'd have to prove AFTER having been arrested (and probably beaten) by the hoplophobic NJ cops and hauled before a hoplophobic judge.
I grew up in NJ, but I have to say that the state sucks. High taxes, overcrowding, lots of pollution (near NY), lots of crime (again, near NY, which is to say Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth - and Trenton and Camden in the south are no picnic either), Draconian and tyrannical gun laws, overpriced housing and a general attitude on the part of state and local officials that you are their mentally inferior tax slaves. I miss friends, some good eating places, the familiarity of the place I grew up and some nice countryside (away from NY), but I don't miss the day-to-day grind of living in a Socialist "paradise." Thanks, liberal NY'ers - it wasn't enough to screw up NYC, but you had to come to MY state and EFF up the whole thing just to escape the cesspool that you created?
I can't comprehend living in a state with laws like that. Hell, they'd have enough on me to jail me for a long time. I don't have as much ammunition as you did because of financial reasons, but I have enough 7.62x39 and 30 round mags to cause the liberal media types to hyperventilate. Because of what the gun stores around here sell, most of my "arsenal" is comprised of hollow points, though I never turn down a box of FMJ when I see it. Hollow points are for target shooting and hunting, FMJs are for a rainy day.
My guess is there is more to the story. There may be another reason the father filed for a restraining order. At least a few other Freepers here suspect the same.