I can get them for you wholesale.
Posted on 06/11/2007 12:55:56 PM PDT by neverdem
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey could move closer Monday to becoming the fourth state to make it illegal for people to buy more than one handgun per month.
The Assembly was slated to consider the proposed limit during an afternoon voting session.
Assemblywoman Joan Quigley, a sponsor of the legislation, represents Jersey City, which last year adopted its own law making it illegal to buy more than one handgun per month. However, that measure was struck down by a judge who ruled the local law pre-empted state authority.
"I personally can see no reason why anyone would want to go out and buy guns in multiples," said Quigley, D-Hudson.
Jersey City's mayor, Jerramiah T. Healy, is among those pushing for the state law, which would exempt law enforcement agencies and officers purchasing handguns for use in law enforcement duties. Certain gun collectors also would be exempted.
If the measure is approved, New Jersey would join Virginia, Maryland and California as states that restrict people to buying one handgun per month. California was the last state to adopt such a law, doing so in 1998, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The Senate has not considered the bill, which is opposed by gun rights groups.
"Rationing firearms to responsible citizens to reduce gun crime makes about as much sense as rationing knives to restaurant-goers to reduce stabbings," said Scott L. Bach, president of the New Jersey Association of Rifle and Pistol Clubs , the National Rifle Association's state organization.
The proposal comes with New Jersey increasingly concerned about gun crimes, particularly from street gangs.
Last year, authorities in Newark, Irvington and Camden seized 114 firearms, up from 86 in 2005. Meanwhile, homicides in Newark have jumped from 65 in 2002 to 113 last year, with nonfatal shootings also on the rise.
I can get them for you wholesale.
Just another reason I don’t live in the Garden State.
What arrogance...such an elitist...
They should worry more about the corruption in the Garden State rather than us law-abiding citizens who want to exercise our Constitutional rights and purchase, trade for or otherwise (legally) obtain firearms. Jersey legislature: look into your own hearts.
As usual, crooks don’t obey the law and they won’t obey this one.
You’re putting guns in the hands of young people! You’re part of the problem!
;-)
Why don’t we make it illegal to vote Demoncrat/Socialist.
Personally I don’t understand why anybody needs to vote D/S.
How is this any different than what this idiot is proposing.
God, I Hate socialists/elitists.
We aim to subvert the dominant paradigm. And it works. Quite well in fact.
We take young, minds full of mush liberals, put guns in their hands, and turn them into shooters. It usually eliminates quite a bit of the marxist stupidity that they have been force fed at university.
Do you need to buy more than one gun per month?
Can see that this can be used to further erode gun rights, but in and of itself, it doesn't seem to be all that much of a threat to gun ownership.
The criminal element in this country (who could care less about any gun regulations) are rejoycing seeing how the fools are helping disarm citizens and giving criminals more reassurances that defensless innocents will be available for them to prey upon, injure, and murder. The idiocy in the ranks of the politicians in this country is astounding!
First off, need has nothing to do with it. Second, we don’t ration the number of homes or cars, or knives you can buy do we? All this does is make it hard for law abiding people to own pistols.
Oh and BTW Pharm, Quigley is the same woman who proposed legislation to ban Ann Coulter's book.
The second amendment is not about need.
The gun laws we have now are a result of everyone being reasonable about enacting new gun laws. In my opionion we need to remove all existing gun laws and just let people buy what and how many guns they desire anytime they want.
Punish individuals for the crimes they commit and not for the weapons they use in commiting those crimes.
And yes, I am unreasonable when it comes to the 2nd Amendment.
What is the point? How many criminals go out and buy a large quantity of guns just before they commit their crimes?
It’s not a question of self defense. Respectfully, thats like saying that a law which fights drunk driving by banning more than one car per household, isn’t an issue because you can only drive one car at once.
Right on! If 1 gun per month is ok, why not 1 gun every 2 months. Then again how about 1 gun every 6 months, after all what can you do with more than one gun? Now that I think of it how about 1 gun every 12 or 24 months.
Then we'll hear, wait a second is not jus the gun, but the bullets that are killing people. How about 12 bullets/month. But that won't stop criminals, so let's go with 6 bullets/month. Then again 6 bullets every 12 months should be enough for sportsmen and citizens....
Meanwhile criminals and gang members will continue to slaughter innocence and we suffer the consequences of politicians without a brain and common sense.
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