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Posted on 08/06/2007 12:41:39 PM PDT by neverdem
| New Jersey State Police Seeking to Enact Further Firearms Restrictions by Regulation |
| Monday, August 06, 2007 |
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Please Mail Your Comments in Today!
The New Jersey State Police recently issued new rule proposals for the regulation of firearms, magazines, and retailers in the Garden State. If approved, these regulations will have the rule of law without ever being debated by our legislators in Trenton, turning thousands of unsuspecting citizens into felons!
The proposal would do the following: It would require law-abiding gun owners to surrender or pay to render their “large capacity” magazines permanently blocked. Possession of a temporarily blocked “large capacity” magazine would be a crime. Certain semi-automatic shotguns and handguns would be classified as “assault firearms” because of cosmetic features, which have not been named in any statute enacted by the New Jersey Legislature. Another proposal seeks to harass lawful owners and retailers of “assault firearms” by requiring that licensed dealers who accept an “assault firearm” and/or machine gun from a citizen for transfer, resale, or repair must notify the Superintendent of the State Police within 48 hours. Also, all firearms sold by retailers would be mandated to be secured by steel cable. Finally, the proposal forces those placing handguns on consignment to produce a new permit to retake possession of the handgun.
Law-abiding firearm owners have until Friday, August 17 to voice their opposition to the new rules and the Superintendent needs to hear from you today! Public comments will only be accepted by mail.
STAND UP AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! Please cut and paste the below letter onto a new page, date, sign, and mail to the listed address:
Date:
Colonel Joseph R. Fuentes, Superintendent New Jersey State Police PO Box 7068 West Trenton, New Jersey 08638 Attn: Firearms Investigation Unit
Re: Comments to PRN 2007-199
Dear Colonel Fuentes:
As a law-abiding New Jersey firearm owner, I respectfully object to, and urge you to not to implement certain proposed changes to the New Jersey Administrative Code set forth in your Rule Proposal dated June 18, 2007. These proposed changes would unilaterally turn thousands of honest citizens into criminals. Furthermore, it would impose this legal jeopardy in the complete absence of legislative intent, debate, and open discussion.
Also, under 13:54-1.2, certain semi-automatic shotguns, the most “commonly used firearm” by New Jersey sportsmen and semi-automatic pistols with common features, would be classified as “assault firearms” even though some of the supposedly undesirable shotgun features are particularly helpful to disabled shooters. Many of the supposedly undesirable features listed have not been identified in any statute passed by the New Jersey Legislature and are tantamount to new legislation even though legislating is beyond the scope of the executive branch.
Rule proposal 13:54-5.1 Section (c) assumes illegal activity without probable cause upon the firearm owner and forces the retailer to delay sometimes needed repair by mandating that licensed dealers who accept an “assault firearm” and/or machine gun from a citizen for transfer, resale, or repair notify the Superintendent within 48 hours. Delaying repairs pending approval by the Superintendent of Police will only add to greater expense and unjustified inconvenience for the firearm owner and lost business for the retailer.
New Jersey already mandates some of the toughest security measures for firearm retailers in the country. Additions to rule 13:54-6.5 would impose significant financial impacts upon retail firearm dealers by requiring dealers whose firearms are on display to secure firearms by a steel cable. Cabled firearms are more likely to “dry-fire” as the cable rests on the triggers of the firearms. Dry-firing can be particularly harmful to shotguns and antique firearms causing damage to the firing pins and actions of the firearms. Securing firearms by steel cables could also result in deep scrapes and permanent damage of those firearms and force retailers to sell the items for significantly less than the suggested retail value.
Rule proposal 13:54-3.20 forces those who place firearms on consignment to produce a new permit to purchase a handgun even though they may have dropped off the firearm as early as one day previously. This will place a new unnecessary burden on licensing authorities to reissue permits. This proposed regulation could redirect what is currently a safe and legal commerce to the black market.
Again, I respectfully object to these proposals and urge you not to implement them.
Sincerely,
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Ping
That will solve these gang killings!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1877066/posts
3 Dead in Execution-Style Killings in Newark (NJ)
/sarc
Chuckie Bloomer! LOL! I have to think of two clowns across the Hudson.
Yep, Mr Policeman is your friend.
Thanks for the link.
Ping.
Grew up in Maryland, I know how you feel Joe.
"I'm the only one professional enough...."
/jasper
Bump.
Molon Labe.
Cripes that reminds me of a discussion I had with my son this weekend. :(
Me, too. It is truly disheartening to see the place you were born and raised turned gradually into a dictatorship. Now I know a bit of how my grandfather (escaped from Russia/USSR in 1923) felt.
I'll never forget going over the Delaware Memorial Bridge on the way to Texas. SWMBO and I were listening to the radio as we passed the "Welcome to Delaware" sign, whereupon I said, "Now you won't have worry about bailing me out of jail." I received the expected pie eyes and slack jaw, followed by "What do you mean?" I filled her in on NJ's magazine laws, and informed her that about 18 inches behind my arse were a bunch that I had acquired in Pennsylvania. She asked how many I had, and I said, "Oh, about 200 years in Rahway worth." (Rahway is a state penitentiary). She then asked if Texas had any laws like that, and I told her "no, Texas is in America."
Yeah, I planned the conversation...I wanted to educate her about gun laws and tyrants. Oh, and BTW, I didn't tell her about the couple thousand hollow points (loaded and unloaded) or the AP ammo that was right near the mags - enough was enough for one day.
NJ is just for visiting, not for living in, for me. Its just not the place where I grew up.
The N.J. State Nazis need only another excuse to harass law-abiding citizens and this will give them one.
They planned an act-out session recently when there was public outrage over one of these individuals driving well in excess of the speed limit driving Corzine which resulted in an accident which almost killed him. They continue to drive well over the speed limit without reason and with total impugnity.
They threatened on one of their blogs to issue mass tickets fore minor infractions just to teach the peasants their place. They were exposed in this effort by “The Jersey Boys” a popular talk show on 101.5 FM in New Jersey.
The clown who runs their Union went on the air and released one of the Jersey Boy’s personal address and license plate number along with his make vehicle model. This clown had formerly been involved in an accident he caused while a trooper. The clown went on to threaten to release similar information on other talk show personalities on that station in retaliation. This clown was guilty of a wanton, deliberate act of breach of security. His release of a personal plate number and Vehicle Identification could only have come from sources in the NJ State Police and the use of such information is designed to be confidential and for law-enforcement purposes only. His punishment? A slap on the wrist.
New Jersey, its politicians, its State Troopers, and too many of its officials are arrogant overbearing, highhanded tyrants.
Glad I left there long ago. But for those of you still there, save your time and ink and spend your efforts engineering an escape from what is becoming the most onerous, avaricious, and oppressive political entity since pre-Revolutionary War France.
“Yep, Mr Policeman is your friend.”
“I’m the only one professional enough....”
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I am not LEO< but this weekend completed Swat tactical AR 4 rifle deployment from a vehicle. When thru a case.
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