Posted on 03/12/2008 6:40:13 AM PDT by ZULU
ASSEMBLY, No. 2490 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 213th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 2008
Sponsored by: Assemblyman PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR. District 18 (Middlesex) Assemblyman HERB CONAWAY, JR. District 7 (Burlington and Camden) Assemblywoman NELLIE POU District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by: Assemblyman Vas
SYNOPSIS Requires handgun ammunition to be encoded with serial number.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT As introduced.
AN ACT concerning handgun ammunition and supplementing chapter 58 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. A manufacturer or licensed wholesale dealer of handgun ammunition shall not knowingly transport into this State, nor shall any licensed wholesale or retail dealer knowingly sell, expose for sale, possess with the intent of selling, assign or otherwise transfer any handgun ammunition manufactured after the effective date of this act unless that handgun ammunition is encoded as follows: (1) the base of the bullet and the inside of the cartridge casing of each round in a box of ammunition are encoded with the same serial number; (2) each serial number is engraved in such a manner that it is highly likely to permit identification after ammunition discharge and bullet impact; and (3) the outside of each box of ammunition is labeled with the name of the manufacturer and the same serial number used on the cartridge casings and bases of bullets contained in the box. b. Ammunition contained in one ammunition box may not be labeled with the same serial number as the ammunition contained in any other ammunition box from the same manufacturer. c. A person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
2. Any person who possesses commercially purchased handgun ammunition that is not encoded by the manufacturer as required in section 1 of this act on or after the first day of the thirteenth month following the effective date of this act is guilty of a disorderly persons offense.
3. a. The Superintendent of State Police shall establish and maintain an encoded handgun ammunition database. b. A licensed retail dealer of encoded handgun ammunition shall provide the superintendent with the following information to be included in the database: (1) the date of each ammunition purchase; (2) the manufacturer of the ammunition; (3) the caliber of the ammunition; (4) the serial numbers of all ammunition purchased; (5) the name and date of birth of each purchaser of ammunition; (6) the driver’s license number of the purchaser or other appropriate identification number issued to the purchaser by the State or federal government; and (7) any other information the superintendent deems necessary. c. A licensed retail dealer of encoded handgun ammunition shall maintain copies of all records submitted to the superintendent pursuant to subsection b. of this section for at least three years after the date of sale. d. A licensed retail dealer who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a disorderly persons offense.
4. A person who knowingly destroys, defaces, or otherwise renders unreadable the information encoded on handgun ammunition as required in section 1 of this act shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
5. This act shall take effect on the first day of the thirteenth month following enactment, but the Superintendent of State Police may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
STATEMENT
Under this bill, manufacturers and wholesalers of handgun ammunition could only transport their product into this State if it is encoded with a serial number. Similarly, licensed wholesalers and retailers of handgun ammunition would only be allowed to sell such encoded ammunition in this State. Under the bill, the base of the bullet and the inside of the cartridge casing of each round in a box of ammunition must be encoded with the same serial number. The serial number must be engraved so that it is highly likely to permit identification after the ammunition has been discharged and the bullet has impacted an object. The outside of each box of ammunition also must be labeled with the name of the manufacturer and the same serial number used on the cartridge casings and bases of bullets contained in the box. The bill specifies that ammunition contained in one ammunition box may not be labeled with the same serial number as the ammunition contained in any other ammunition box from the same manufacturer. Manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of handgun ammunition who transport or sell handgun ammunition that is not properly encoded with the required serial number are guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. Fourth degree crimes are punishable by a term of imprisonment of up to 18 months, a fine of up to $10,000, or both. Any person who possesses commercially purchased handgun ammunition that is not encoded by the manufacturer as required in the bill a year after enactment is guilty of a disorderly persons offense. Disorderly persons offenses are punishable by a term of imprisonment of up to six months, a fine of up to $1,000, or both. The bill also requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish and maintain an encoded handgun ammunition database. Licensed retail dealers who sell handgun ammunition are required to provide the superintendent with the date the ammunition was purchased; the manufacturer; the caliber; the serial number; the name and birth date of each purchaser; the driver’s license number or other appropriate State or federal identification of the purchaser; and any other information the superintendent requires. The seller also is required to maintain copies of all records submitted to the superintendent for at least three years after the sale. A seller who does not comply with these requirements is guilty of a disorderly persons offense. Under the bill, a person who knowingly defaces or otherwise renders unreadable the information encoded on handgun ammunition is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
Democrats suck.
RELOAD!!!!!
Too many Democrats, not enough escort services..
Good luck doing this with frangible ammo.
There is no doubt this is primarily intended to infringe on the RKBA.
Hmm, looks like the Gang Bangers will have to import their ammo along with the drugs. That should be easy. Next stupid idea please?
Exactly...... gun control isn’t for and doesn’t effect criminals.
I’ll be sure to watch the MSM reports of all the criminal types ridding themselves of their newly ‘illegal’ ammunition, thirteen months after this gem becomes law.
Sheesh...such stupidity among the educated folks...
ARGH! The price of .22 is going to go up...
New Jersey.
New Jersey is a “testing lab” for ceasefire and its wacko backers in the UMC and other groups. If they can get a loony anti-Second Amendment bill adopted there, the next step is other states and the Feds. This is what happened with the Assault Rifle Ban.
This is all about politics and making it de facto impossible to own a firearm or use one. Look at the consitutencies of these creeps. They represent urban, minority controlled districts where gun violence is endemic due to the collapse of family units, the drug trade and the inability of the “community” to control the destructive elements, mainly “the youths” in their midst. Since they can’t control themselves, they want to punish everybody else by having the Federal Government control everybody.
Its as simple as that.
Nahh.
The cops, as always, will probably be exempted once the bill works its way through the legislature.
Democrats help make the Soprano State the Soprano State.
What is sad is that these people continue to be elected by those who would take our rights.
The workable technology does not exist, nor does the record keeping that would go with such a bill.
Second, this is a direct violation of the interstate commerce clause and most interstate acts in that it prevents free flow of trade between the states.
This is just another part of the effort to make us a subject nation.
The bill is not designed to work as it is written it is simply to disarm the populous in order that they can be better managed by the dictatorship.
Or muzzle-loaing guns.
But then these cretins generally know very little about firearms and couldn;t care less as long as they pander to their constituency.
Its designed to implement de facto disarmament in New Jersey and, later, the entire nation if they succeed in the Soprano State.
Be interesting to see if this becomes law . Just introduced in assembly .If so, another reason to leave the People’s Republic of Zoo Jersey .
This bill appears to make no mention of handloaded ammo or the components thereof.
An unintentional oversight, to be remedied later, I’m sure.
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