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  1. 19 hours ago, Maksim said:

    The other fun one to shoot was an AR with a binary trigger.  Are those legal in NJ?  Haven't seen much...     Is more fun than a bumpfire stock.

    Binary triggers are illegal in NJ because of a wording difference from the ATF definition of a machine gun. 

    NJ definition of machine gun:

    "Machine gun" means any firearm, mechanism or instrument not requiring that the trigger be pressed for each shot and having a reservoir, belt or other means of storing and carrying ammunition which can be loaded into the firearm, mechanism or instrument and fired therefrom.

     

    ATF definition:

    Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger

     

    Trigger does not have to be pressed in order to fire a bullet with a binary trigger.  Making it illegal in NJ.

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  2. Why the focus on Hexmags?  15rd Glock 19 mags can be disassembled and a +2 floor plate and 17rd spring could be added.  Same goes for any number of handgun magazines.  The point is that they are built to accept X number of rounds.  What you do with them afterwards is what would be breaking the law.

    There is nothing stopping you from taking a hacksaw to your shotgun.  That doesn't make a shotgun inherently illegal.  

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  3. 1 hour ago, Old Glock guy said:

    PK90, I mostly agree with you, but I believe one can face legal action in NJ by claiming one is carrying a knife for "self defense."  We are expected to be willing victims in this state, not people who can defend ourselves.  I believe a rape whistle is still legal to carry. 

    Is there a legal precedent where someone was charged for something for claiming that a knife they were carrying was for self defense?


  4. Just now, BillC. said:

     

    The phrase “lawful purpose” was challenged in State v. Blaine, when Mr. Blaine was discovered carrying a folding knife with a 4 inch blade. The Court reasoned that because the knife carried by Mr. Blaine was not a gravity knife, switchblade knife, dagger, dirk or stiletto, those knives specifically mentioned by new Jersey statute as weapons, the defendant may escape a guilty finding, if the state cannot prove that he carried the knife for an unlawful purpose. As such, because there was no proof that Mr. Blaine did not carry the knife for a lawful purpose, he could not be found guilty of carrying an illegal weapon. The Blaine Court cited State v. Lee, in which the legislature’s intent, when enacting the law prohibiting the carrying of certain knives

    He was carrying a 4 inch blade.  Nowhere does it say that 4 inches is the maximum length of a blade one can carry lawfully.

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  5. e. Certain weapons. Any person who knowingly has in his possession any gravity knife, switchblade knife, dagger, dirk, stiletto, billy, blackjack, metal knuckle, sandclub, slingshot, cestus or similar leather band studded with metal filings or razor blades imbedded in wood, ballistic knife, without any explainable lawful purpose, is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

    https://knifeup.com/new-jersey-knife-laws/

    These are the laws as written.  The problem is that explainable lawful purpose is very subjective.  

     

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