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If you live in camden or trenton can you get hazardous duty pay or combat pay?

Indeed. If NJ residents truly were landlocked then what's to stop Port Authority from arresting everyone flying with a handgun? I've left Newark several times with handguns and never had an issue (but I am very careful to comply with all TSA guidelines of course). I know there is a lot of emphasis in the gun owner community about "right to carry" but I think it'd be a victory if gun owners could just get "right to transport". In the absence of any criminal intent, following proper storage, and possession of an FID, why have a witch hunt? I wish our legislators could do something about that. It's jacked up.

Thank you so much for the responses. I will in fact be travelling to texas tomorrow, but i wont be carrying my pistol in my luggage on this trip since my route will be a little circuitous. Im extremely paranoid about running afoul of nj gun laws. I think ill just apply for a carry permit. It cant be that hard, since all these fine gentlemen from newark obviously have permits... http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=1yRRgaVLIZ4 Lol. Seriously though thanks to all for the help. I will look into the allentown route, but my employer pays for most of my travel.

I did occasionally carry hollowpoints for awhile but I stopped and I always go with hornady critical defense now. I could never find that Federal EFMJ people talk about. Nobody has ever asked about the ammo but they have seen it.

Everytime I've done it, I open the suitcase and then I open the locked cased inside. TSA looks at it, asks me if it's loaded and puts a little orange or pink "declared" tag on it. Then I lock everything back up and it goes through the X-ray. Then I go through the normal security line and that's that.

Hey guys, I have a question for the esteemed assembly. I live here in NJ and I travel on business to Houston TX occasionaly as well as back to Idaho to visit family. Generally, I travel with a handgun (or 2) and carry concealed (although I have carried openly in Idaho when out hiking and such, no one cares in the least there trust me). I have a florida non-res and an Idaho non-res and of course the NJ FID card. Now I have have done this several times (I declare it, lock it in a case, keep the ammo seperate and locked, etc. etc) and I have never had a problem. I know the laws. No one at Newark airport has ever asked me why I am transporting the handgun, but I intend to say in all honestly that I plan on doing some recreational shooting at my destination (which I do in fact do), but like I said no one has ever asked and I've never had any issue other than some delay. Has anyone had a problem at the Newark Airport? Am I asking for trouble doing this? Am I going to run afoul of one of NJ's "exceptions" in transporting the firearm and end up like Brian Aitken if the wrong Port Authority guy sees it? I taking another trip to Texas in a couple of weeks. I've talked to lawyers and cops about this and gotten various opinions. Has anyone had any trouble in Newark airport?

I live right on the edge of the Ironia section (almost in Mendham, I have a Mendham mailing address). Randolph is nice town but the high school is kind of wild (lots of parties I understand). My kids are small though and 1 of them goes to Ironia elementary. As far as permits go the lady in charge of the firearms records section (Rosann Morehouse) is a nice lady and easy to work with. I have gotten about 4 permits from her in about 4 years and never had a problem. It usually takes about a month. There are boatload of deer. I saw a pretty large black bear in my neighbors front yard one morning.

The first step would be to find some like minded individuals in Newark. Maybe somebody knows somebody there? I wish I did. Maybe some of this people I met on facebook? I dunno. Any communiy organizers out there? Trying to get some grassroots support in Newark would have to be done with a lot of sensitivity and professionalism. There are many people in Newark who know someone who has been shot and killed. Those people are mothers, brothers, cousins, etc. While it's sadly a fact that most of the people involved in violence in Newark are involved in the drug trade, it's often easier to just blame guns rather than accept the sad reality that their loved one was caught up in criminal activity. I also know that some of these folks see the NRA as just a chapter of the KKK. White men with guns... On the other hand, I strongly suspect there are some people who are sick of being defenseless. Those are the people we can reach. They need their rights more than I do out here in Mendham. Sheila Oliver is never going to listen to us, because we don't vote for her. She might be more inclined to listen to people who actually do. I need to join Frank's little NJ SAS. I usually don't join groups in which I haven't met the management but maybe I'll make an exception.

In case members of this esteemed assembly have missed it, Newark is undergoing a relatively spectacular crime wave right now. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/three_men_are_killed_four_woun.html I work in Newark, and sometimes I work late. Carjackings worry me. I am a facebook "friend" of mayor Cory Booker and I subscribe to his twitter feed. About 3 days ago I mentioned on his facebook page that maybe the time had come to consider allowing honest and qualified citizens the same CCW rights that people enjoyed in 40 other states. I didn't expect Booker to respond but the response I did get was interesting... many people from Newark made positive comments about my suggestion. If you read the nj.com article I posted it also mentions: "We’ve had victims of carjackings from our church, people afraid to come to church, folks that are talking about arming themselves," James said. "We’ve got to do something to protect ourselves." Has the NJ SAS or NJRPAC or anyone tried to reach out to some of the folks in Newark? Part of the problem with the pro-2nd amendment crowd in this state is that it seems to be a bunch of middle aged white guys for the most part. Of course there are thugs in Newark, but there are good people also. If "right to carry" is ever going to reach critical mass then maybe some outreach to people suffering in high crime areas makes sense. I live in Mendham and I don't worry about anything out here, but I can't imagine what it must be like to live in Newark and fear for your life when you go to the grocery store without any means to protect yourself. I suspect some of those folks are even more outraged by the current situation (the thugs are armed to the teeth while the law abiding are helpless) than we are.

I would argue that if New Jersey's gun laws have indeed worked, they have worked perversely. Law abiding citizens in Cherry Hill where you live face great difficulty buying a handgun and it's nearly impossible to carry a weapon as we all know. However, take one look at Camden, Newark & Trenton and it's painfully obvious that the vast illicit market for firearms hasn't been impacted in the slightest. I work in Newark and I have spotted gangbangers packing heat in gas stations. The New Jersey Assembly can pass all the laws they want but guns won't disappear. I'm also pretty sure heroin is completely prohibited under the law, but it strangely enough people find ways to get it... As Mayor Corey Booker himself said, "Not one shooting in my city last year was by somebody who went, had a background check, bought a gun and shot somebody in my city. Does not happen." I don't necessarily agree with John Lott and others who have argued that more gun ownership and concealed carry lowers the crime rate, but I certainly can't find one piece of statisical evidence that the inverse is true. No where has the crime rate actually increased after concealed carry became a law.

This is some serious horseshit. His case was featured in an online magazine I subscribe to. I think Plaxico Burress got 18 months for carrying a loaded Glock in Manhattan... And this guy gets 7 years for locked and unloaded firearms in his trunk???? http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/15/brian-aitkens-mistake

I already sent my letter 3 weeks ago. I wonder if Mr. Carrol didn't get his idea from me. He saw my letter on my facebook page. He is my assemblyman and seems to be a very good man from what I can tell.

Remember though: This is almost the same legislature that passed "one a gun month" about 18 months ago. So all of us should keep our expectations low.

Christie will have to sign it if he wants any career in national politics beyond New Jersey whatsoever. If there is one thing the national Republican party can agree on it is the 2nd amendment. A non-2nd amendment friendly Republican would have ZERO chance carrying the south, the west, Texas, etc. It's absurd! Look what happened to Castle down in Delaware. He had an "F" from the NRA. That hurt him a lot in the GOP primary vs. O'Donnell. Christie might not be pro-2nd amendment but I'm pretty sure he is pro-Christie. If wants to continue being the national Republican rock star he had better sign the CCW bill if it's placed on his desk. If he vetoed a CCW bill then he's a fool, and I do not think he is a fool.

I do wonder if something isn't happening under the surface at the state legislature. The timing of this announcement seems odd. I received a nice letter about 3 weeks ago from the representatives and state senator in district 24 (I don't know how they found out about my address since I live in district 25) asking me to write a letter to the chairmen of the relevant committees asking them to advance a concealed carry bill. So I obliged and wrote a very nice thoughtful letter that I imagine was probably used as toliet paper but the timing of this suggests otherwise. Does anyone have any clue as to what might be going on? If anything? I'm not a New Jersey political insider by any means so I have no idea. I'm a businessman and I work in Newark (sometimes late) and as much as I like Mayor Booker his police force can't be everywhere always.

Guys, thanks for the tips on the EFMJ. I appreciate it. I'll try to buy some on-line and switch to that. I have zero desire to become a "trophy" conviction for the Essex county prosecutor. You just can't be too careful. I'm probably crazy to even keep shooting, but I've been doing it my whole life and it's more fun than golf. I hate the laws and taxes in this state and I look forward to the day I finally leave.

This is my first post on this site. I'm hoping someone knows the answer. I am businessman here in NJ and I occasionally travel to Houston. I have a Florida CCW and I've been around firearms all my life, both in the military and growing up out west. Houston being what it is (and I look relatively wealthy), I generally carry concealed when I'm there (Sig P239 SAS in 9mm) and besides that the town also has several nice pistol ranges a person can use. I've never had a problem. I've never had a problem with declaring my pistol at Newark Liberty and I lock it up securely, but I do carry ammo as well (not in the pistol of course, I'm no idiot) and that ammo is hollowpoint. No one has ever called me on it, but could I get in trouble for transporting that ammunition? Has anyone here ever had a problem at Newark Liberty? The last time I declared my pistol the ticket agent looked at me like I had horns growing out of my head but I sailed through. I have an attorney friend and I asked him but he had no idea.