Posted on 05/30/2018 9:22:37 AM PDT by Cheerio
State police were shocked to find that after banning bump stocks and threatening violators with 5 years in prison, not a single resident has complied.
The state of New Jersey has become the latest to ban bump-stocks for firearms, and despite strict threats to owners who refuse to turn their newly illegal devices over to police, not a single resident has complied with the new law.
The legislation banning the popular A-15 accessory, Senate Bill 3477, went into effect immediately after it was signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie in January, and it gave residents 90 days to “voluntarily surrender any bump stock in their possession to a law enforcement agency.”
The bill criminalizes the possession or sale of “bump stocks,” which it defines as “a device designed to attach to a semi-automatic firearm in order to fire shots in rapid succession in a manner that simulates an automatic firearm.” This new law adds to an existing state law banning guns that have been deemed as “assault rifles.”
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Having spent time in Jersey and knowing more Jerseyites than I care to ..
.. I might say that there are none in the whole state.
I’ve met with some of the self-described ultra-right wingers in NJ and they are no more right of center than Joe Leiberman. They balk at the idea of breaking the law, of going sideways. I have never met a rebellious New Jerseyite.
They all fall in lock-step with whatever ridiculous law that state comes up with. Same in Massachusetts and New York. Everyone is more than likely to happily comply.
CT had a few rebels who left the state. I now feel that CT is pretty much completely liberal and GOP-Fake.
Meanwhile, about an hour north in Islamberg NY (A real place) they are stockpiling whatever they want and no one can even enter the town to look around.
‘Popular accessory’??? Hardly......just a novelty ammo waster....
“[NJ police] WILL enforce this if they can find who has them.”
Since no state has effective gun registration, NJ will simply set up a 1-800-SNITCH hotline & encourage people to denounce those believed to possess an illegal firearm or part.
“And you DON’T have to give your name!”
Due process & prison for perjurers? Faggeddaboudit!
Already here in some states: GVRO/Red Flag laws.
-You do not need a bump stock to increase your ability to fire rapidly. U-Tube has numerous vids illustrating this. Bump stocks themselves need a degree of practice to reach their effect. People are more likely to mis fire, jam, etc. using these devices. As far as I’m concerned “bump stocks” are crutches for the disabled walking on a frozen lake. Except for some computer gamers/warrior wanna-be’s They’re useless save as a focal point for the gun grabbers.
What would really be funny if people mailed Pop-Tarts, chewed into the shape of guns, or wood blocks carved into the shape of guns, to the appropriate state government agencies, declaring they are surrendering their weapons.
On the way out of the PRNJ to Texas, Free America, my wife and I passed the “Welcome to Delaware” sign on the Delaware Memorial Bridge. I turned to her and said, “Well, now you don’t have to worry about bailing me out of jail.”
She gave me the pie-eyes and, of course, asked me what I was talking about.
I told her all about Gov. Flim-Flam Florio’s “Assault Weapon Ban” that had gone into effect back in 1990, specifically the ban on magazines able to hold more than 15 rounds of ammo. Naturally, she asked, “How many of those things do you have?”
I told her, “Sitting about 18 inches behind my rear end is something like 200 years’ worth in Rahway State Prison.” She turned white as a sheet, and (very uncharacteristically) said nothing for about 10-15 seconds. Then she asked, “They don’t have laws like that in Texas, do they?” I said, “No, Texas is in America.”
Phuck NJ and its nanny-state, unconstitutional gun laws. With a rusty chainsaw.
Quickest way of having a police state is to make everyone a criminal.
good way to go after one's political opponents..
I would say that IL and MA at least do have gun registration, but I don't know about NJ and NY out of NYC which does have gun registration and in fact used the registration lists for confiscation in the Dinkins years.
Love your point of view, love the way you handled it. It’s the exact same way my husband would deal with such a matter.
Every time I read something like this (which is EVERY time they outlaw something) I wonder if the libs think about how they are arming criminals.
Think about it for a minute. All these guns, accessories, ammunition, etc that are banned are driven underground. The original person owning it probably doesn’t go out and sell it to a criminal after it is banned. However, after he dies, the wife will give it to a relative to dispose of discretely (since turning it in at that point is a crime). That relative may not have the scruples of the original owner. Or, he may turn it over to someone (to keep from getting caught with it) with even fewer scruples.
It seems to me that more banned items will end up in the hands of criminals after a ban, than there would be without a ban.
That's probably because among the predominantly submissive residents of New Jersey, not a single one of them owns either an AR-15 or a bump stock.
(ducks)...
“It is possible that there are no bump stocks in NJ.
They have very draconian laws and few gun owners.”
Yes, the laws are very draconian. But there was no law against ALL semi-auto, AR-15 pattern, rifles. The Attorney General of NJ, in the early 1990s, published a letter stating that the law there ONLY prohibited named weapons (and there weren’t that many, and the gun manufacturers helped by creating “new” models that were/are functionally identical to those banned. I, myself, bought a lower for an AR in 1997 while living in NJ. If I still lived in that $hithole, I’m sure that I would have gotten a bump stock...just because I could. Hell, I bought dozens of 20- and 30-round magazines for my AR (even before I bought the rifle...that’s a habit of mine)...and they were ILLEGAL under NJ law.
Yeah, there are bump stocks in NJ. Count on it.
Oh, and there are a lot more gun owners than you think...they just have to lay low, that’s all.
Nonetheless, I’m glad that I now live in Texas, Free America. I can own pretty much anything that I can pay to buy (or make).
If you have even a passing interest in AR style rifles, you would have heard of bump stocks a long time ago. They're quite popular.
I don't know of any range in the state that a bump stock wouldn't get you thrown off. And there is no deserted desert to go to. The state is more densely populated than Japan.
If you did buy a bump stock for the novelty value, and found you could sell it on Gunbroker for twice what you bought it for, wouldn't you sell?
Sheesh, someone call Jerry Miculek AND WARN HIM THEY COMING TO “CONFISCATE” HIS FINGER !!
NYC has been a gungrabbing fiefdom since the Sullivan Act of 1913. Got that.
But as far as I know, the noncompliance rate for registering “assault weapons” in NY, CA, MA, CT, IL & even NJ, is running at 85 to 90 percent. And the po-po haven’t started knocking on doors yet. Too dangerous, maybe?
But watch out for GVRO/Red Flag laws, I’ll say it till I’m blue in the face, these laws are an all out attack on the Bill of Rights, not just the Second.
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