Can someone explain NJ to me?

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Greg Di

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This is my first post as I will soon be a new handgun owner here in the glorious state of NJ.

I filed my paperwork with my town PD and was told it takes about 8 weeks. I was looking at some guns, and the guys in the shop told me it could take 12 weeks. I've researched the NJ Firearms ID process and the statute says you need to get a grant/denial within 30 days of submitting. If that's the law, then why have I been told it takes 2-3X as long?

My other question is about traveling to a pistol range in New York State. The border is 15 min from my house and I work 2 days a week in NYS. There is a nice range 2 blocks from where I work. Is it legal to transport over the border specifically to go to a range?

Although I am new to the firearms community, I am quickly finding out that everything having to do with firearms in NJ is a gray area. LEOs don't know the laws, yet they can twist them to suit their needs at their whim with no recourse. I don't want to break the law at all, but I also don't think it's right for LEOs to make up their own rules.

THanks in advance. There are lots of quality posts on this board!
 
I've researched the NJ Firearms ID process and the statute says you need to get a grant/denial within 30 days of submitting. If that's the law, then why have I been told it takes 2-3X as long?
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Because the law means nothing when it is ignored by those charged with upholding it, and when they are never held to account for violating it by their friends in the judiciary.

The bottom line is that owning a gun is a privilege in New Jersey, not a "right," and they'll take as long as they darn well please regardless of what the law says and you'll thank them for it in the end as far as they're concerned.

This is one of the reasons why Evan Nappen moved to New Hampshire.
 
Welcome to The Firing Line, Greg. :)

You can find a lot of good information on New Jersey firearms laws at www.packing.org Find your state in the list on the left and read up. You can also find information about New York on that site. As with all sites, please be certain to confirm all the information with the official state website.

-Dave
 
Home of the free?

i was born and raised in up state NY outside of Syracuse, and have friends that are cops up there. i also lived in Clifton NJ for a time. i have always been a gun owner. it is so confusing up there with the gun laws and restictions.................I'm Proud to Call MYSELF a Texas Transplant.
 
DO NOT TAKE YOUR GUN INTO NYS!!!!!!

It's illegal. In order to be able to do so you have to get a NYS permit. IIRC, they don't issue to non-residents.

As for NJ, just look at your politicians, at all levels of the governments. And then the people that voted for them.

Wayne
 
OK...next question.

Can I purchase a handgun from a mail order company even though I live in NJ? This is assuming I have an NJ permit in hand. How exactly does it work?

Also, let's say I am outside of NJ and go to a gun show or gun store. Can I buy a long gun out of state as long as I have an NJ FID?

What about ammo?
 
And I thought having to wait 10 days in the glorious state of Cali. was bad. Then again you can probably buy black rifles in NJ and we cant. :mad:
 
Greg,
I've been told that most dealers in neighboring states will do the NJ paperwork for you too, for a long gun that is.

As far as a mail-order handgun, you'd have to have it shipped to a dealer who would then do the paperwork and transfer it to you, for a fee of course. I basically had to do this when I moved from NYC to NJ, my NYC license expired a month before I moved, rather than renew it I had to turn my handguns in to the police, who shipped them to a dealer in NJ who transferred them to me after I got all my paperwork done.

Samuel,
NJ lists the M1 Carbine as an assault weapon. Need I say more?
 
Explain New Jersey to you?

It's the east coast center of communism in the United States, where the government knows infinitely better how to run your life than you do, where the hideous, evil money grubbing rich are taxed into poverty to provide for the needs of the true nobility, everyone else, so on and so forth...

In other words, it's hell on earth.

What are you doing there?
 
I was born there, and was a LEO there for 12 years, and now I live in Pa. I'm glad I got out, that place has turned into a commie state. And unless someone was wanted and carrying a weapon, we never would have bothered anyone in the old days. My advice to you is to find another job and get out of there to a gun friendly state ASAP, because with Corzine getting elected, things are only going to get worse..............
 
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