Posted on 06/19/2008 2:21:42 PM PDT by Coleus
Please Contact Your Assembly Members and Assembly Leadership Immediately! |
| 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. Please contact your Assembly members TODAY and respectfully urge them to oppose A339! To find your Assembly member, click here. In addition to contacting your own Assembly member, please also IMMEDIATELY contact the Speaker of the Assembly and respectfully urge him to HOLD A339: ASSEMBLY SPEAKER: Assemblyman Joseph Roberts (D-5) to e-mail your assemblyman use asm(their last name)@njleg.org, for a woman it's asw |
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Hey Coleus, may I get on your ping list? Have a few questions on new gun purchases, recent and future.
Thanks!
How hard have the citizens of New Jersey been trying to actively overturn this already odious portion of the law?
Beat to the BANG!
I agree that everyone should be required to buy one gun a month.
It takes NJ a month to build a gun?
And it'll be done a month from Monday?
Someone has got to bust that union.
First I thought NJ was enrolling every legal citizen into the free gun of the month club.
I’m doing okay these days, but geeze, I don’t think even I can afford a gun a month!
Milt, some of us can afford to buy ammo every month and some of us can afford to buy guns every month . You want us to do both?
That’s gonna mean buying .22’s fer cryin out loud. As deaf as I’m getting I can hardly hear a .22 anymore.
A339
6/23/2008 Passed by the Assembly (47-28-4)
ASSEMBLY LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
ASSEMBLY, No. 339
with committee amendments
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: MARCH 3, 2008
The Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Assembly Bill No. 339.
As amended, Assembly Bill No. 339 regulates the sale and purchase of handguns by prohibiting a person from purchasing more than one handgun within a 30-day period.
Under the provisions of the amended bill, the holder of a handgun purchaser permit may buy only one gun within a 30-day period. The amended bill also prohibits licensed retail firearms dealers from knowingly delivering more than one handgun to any particular person within a 30-day period. As introduced, the bill would have prohibited more than one purchase or delivery in a calendar month.
A buyer or seller who violates the provisions of the amended bill would be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. Fourth degree crimes are punishable by imprisonment of up to 18 months, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
This limitation does not apply to federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies and officers purchasing handguns for use by officers in the actual performance of their law enforcement duties. It is the committee’s understanding that local law enforcement agencies and officers includes county agencies and officers.
Also exempt from the one-gun-a-month limitation are collectors of firearms as curios or relics as defined in Title 18, United States Code, section 921 (a) (13) who have in their possession a valid Collector of Curios and Relics License issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The limitation also does not apply to transfers of handguns between licensed retail dealers.
This bill was pre-filed for introduction in the 2008-2009 session pending technical review. As reported, the bill includes the changes required by technical review, which has been performed.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:
The committee amended the bill to:
(1) prohibit the purchase and sale of a handgun to one within a 30-day period, rather than one in a calendar month; and
(2) make technical corrections.
Have the co-sponsors of this bill received their engraved ATF Leatherman multi-tools yet???
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