SO YOU WANT TO OWN A GUN IN NEW JERSEY ...

11/20/01 | vanity

[genefromjersey]

Want to buy a gun in New Jersey ?? It's way too easy, according to the Anti-Gun lobbyists ! All you need is:
1. Application,completely filled out.
2. Two (2) References.
3. Mental Health Form signed.
4. Copy of Driver's License.
5. One (1) State Fingerprint Card.
6. One (1) FBI Fingerprint Card.
7. $ 49.00 Money Order, payable to: NJ State Police- SBI.
8. $ 5.00 Cash for ID Card.
9. $ 2.00 Cash for each Handgun Purchase Permit.

If you can pass official scrutiny, you will be issued a Firearms Purchaser's ID Card-which must be presented to ( and recorded by ) the Seller, before you can purchase a rifle, shotgun, or airgun. If you are planning to buy a pistol or revolver, you will also need a Handgun Purchase Permit.

These documents allow you to purchase a firearm; they do not authorize you to carry a handgun beyond the confines of your residence or business.
If you are transporting a rifle or shotgun-to the range or the game fields-the weapon must be unloaded, securely csaed, and stored in a part of the vehicle not readily accessible to the driver.

You may not own or possess any ammunition with soft nose, or hollow point bullets.Solid lead is OK;FMJ is OK.( Only shotguns are permitted on the game fields-magazine capacity limited to 3 rounds-total; no "pumpkin balls" , saboted rounds, or rifled slugs. )

Don't even think about owning any semi-automatic weapon with a magazine capacity exceeding 10 rounds ! ( This includes .22's )A special Assault Weapon Permit must be obtained...and is almost never granted. )

Any attempts to modify NJ gun laws, or make them semi-rational, are met by a Media hue and cry , and concerted, determined efforts to drive the politician(s) responsible out of office for all time.

So, you say, there must be just about zero gun crime in New Jersey. Let's put it this way : law-abiding, gun-owning citizens seldom commit crimes of violence. They never did. Criminals, on the other hand, buy all the guns they want - on the street - and engage regularly in " drive-bys ", robberies ,murders, etc. If they get caught, they get mandatory additional prison time...which sounds tough until you realize it adds ( at best ) a week or two to their parole ineligibility period !

[ZULU]

Nobody WANTS to live in New Jersey - unless they are refugees from the five boroughs of Manhattan. They go there to get away from the mess they created they created, then bring their same falwed thinking and politicians with them.

Most people are BORN there - sort of like being born into a feudal state. With family and jobs there, its difficult to leave - fortunately for the rest of the Country.

[ZULU]

New Jersey, California, Maryland, Taxaxhusetts - great places to avoid.

[ZULU]

VERY GOOD POST ATTICUS!!!

[Mr. Bungle]

LOL!!

[michaelje]

BUMP

[asformeandformyhouse]

Move.

[Fresh Wind]

NJ residents don't need guns-they use their vehicles as weapons!

[genefromjersey]

Married a "Joisey Goil " when I was in the service;didn't feel like going home to the farm.

[HangFire]

More reasons to keep fighting! Good luck NJ...

[genefromjersey]

Funny you should mention that ! NJ used to have Criminal Registration laws: when you got out of prison, or were convicted of a felony, you had to register that fact with the police in your home town.

[culpeper]

The thing you forgot was after doing all of the things you mentioned it can still take 3 months before you actually get the permit. When they came out with those Brady laws, I laughed, NJ is far stricter by a longshot. Gun owners in Jersey would take an instantaneous background check in a heartbeat. Alot depends on the local sheriff also, they can get it done fast or they can let the application sit in a pile for a month before they do anything. Which is kind of scary.

[genefromjersey]

We do that real well - but not on a par with Oklahoma; where one out every three drivers seems to be "snapping in " as a kamakazi pilot !

[culpeper]

I believe NJ has the highest income in the nation? Maybe that has something to do with it.

[real saxophonist]

bump

[Cobra64]

I believe NJ has the highest income in the nation? Maybe that has something to do with it.

I know a guy who lives there... Jersey has the highest concentration of the MOB than any other state.

[culpeper]

Yep...they all moved there from Staten Island, no kidding. There are a complete $hite load of Soprano wanna be's too.

[Harrison Bergeron]

"Yep...they all moved there from Staten Island, no kidding."

Staten Island. All the ambience and convenience of northern New Jersey, with the political representation of New York.

[gc4nra]

SO YOU WANT TO OWN A GUN IN NEW JERSEY ...

Noooo Thank You! I spent the first 13 years of my life in Jersey City, I don't want to do ANYTHING in Jersey.

[Destructor]

That's outrageous! Why don't you move to Texas. We're still a FREE state!!

[cmotormac44]

i thank my parents for giving some 'common sense' so i DO NOT fit in any of the 'categories