[mirkwood]

Residents of New Jersey can buy bb guns through a designated local gun store after acquiring an Airgun Permit.
Cite from New Jersey law: "A 'firearm' means any handgun, rifle, shotgun, air gun, gas gun, machine gun, or 'any gun'."

[sig226]

Not correct. New Jersey law requires anyone who purchases an air rifle to present a Firearms Purchaser Identification Card, the same one they need to buy a 12 gauge shotgun. An air pistol requires a Permit to Purchase a Handgun. There is no 'air gun' permit, and they are effectively destroying the shooting sports that way.

As a further example of the stupidity of that state, a person can buy all the crossbows they want, which are lethal weapons, with no permit. But if you try to buy that Red Ryder without an FPIC, boy are you gonna get it.