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I remember people (not gov workers) telling me to make sure to write "Target Shooting" on the app when I first put in for my FID for that very reason.

Yea, Kally has BS paperwork to ship between dealers that other states don't.

My town makes me pay the $18 every time you apply, even if it is a day after you just applied and paid the $18, you would have to pay it again. What I have been told is that the $18 is a SP rule and not a law. Some towns follow the SP rule and others do not.

If he's moving back to NJ he can sell it to you directly when he considered a legal NJ resident. If he's only visting you need to through an FFL.

New Hampshire is more appealing to me - cooler summers, low taxes, lack of government protecting you from yourself laws and overall libertarian attitude.

I realize Christie is a very clever politian - he ties not to take a position on controversal issues - but if he has national ambitions he is going to have to support gun rights in order to win the republican nomination in the primary.

If 48 other states (other than NJ and California) allow assault weapons, then it is hard to argue that these weapons are not in "common use." Actually, Mass, Conn, NY, MD also have restictions, special permits or bans on AW.

I've tried bear meat, it's not bad if cooked right.

Yea, unfortunately not for the better

55 days and counting

A lower with a stock attached (and nothing more) can be purchased out of state. Your government bureaucracy in action.

Who ever heard of the ACLU defending gun rights? They defend every other right, real or imaginary, but never seem interested in protecting a right explicitly stated in the constitution.

How the NJSP collects the money is just semantics, your still paying sales tax on a tax. Transfer fees I can understand since this is for a service that is being provided by a private company, just like most other services you buy it is subject to sales tax.

How about the fact that very little crime is committed with them. I remember researching this in college some time ago using the NJ state police's Uniform Crime Report and seeing how more people were beaten to death with hands, fists and feet than were killed with rifles of any kind.

That was a different ATF rule, or new "interpretation" of the existing rules that began at the beginning of last year. You must now buy stripped lowers and pistol grip shotguns in your home state. Lowers with stocks attached and shotguns with folding stocks can still be bought out of state.

Century is a pain like that, they won't ship any gun that can accept a high cap mags to NJ (including WASR 10's that already have a welded muzzle nut and cut bayonet lug). FYI - also no ammo to non FFL's - they think you need to present a FID card in person to buy any ammo in NJ.

Interesting, has anyone done this?

Point well taken about multi rulings vs one ruling. But like you said, we are only one justice away from getting nothing more, or worse yet going backwards. Lets hope they can lay this out before SCOTUS changes for the worse.

Thanks for posting those ATF newsletters. If the "contigous states" rule hasn't been in effect since 1986 I wonder why I keep hearing it. Maybe the dealers hear "NJ" and don't want to get involved - they still need to be sure the guns are legal here.

The point of the law was to get Corzine reelected - we see now how well that worked. Even the state police realize the 30 day rule was unnecessary, straw purchases are not a problem in NJ. It just creates another layer of BS to go through when making purchases.

I've been told conflicting information on this. I was in Las Vegas and Kentucky and was told in both places that the ATF was behind this "contigous states" rule, and that they have gone back and forth on this rule several times. I have had dealers in PA tell me they never heard of this rule. Maybe there is an FFL on the site that can clarify this for us.

Agreed, all the "fees" you pay at motor vehicle are actually taxes. My point is they are charging sales tax on a tax. You pay sales tax on the firearm and then also on the NICS check. It would be like paying sales tax on the car and then also on the registration.

I agree to have everything in one foul swoop changed is not going to happen from any court case. I'm certainly not a legal expert, but wasn't the point of McDonald to clarify that 2A DOES apply to states and lower Gov. and not just the fed Gov. Heller II is an attempt to clarify just what "reasonable gun control" is, as was allowed in Heller I. The justices could have easily done that in McDonald but didn't seem to want to dive in that deep - they could have spared us all ten years of litigation.

I would agree My property backs up to a major interstate highway and we have had people break down and knock on our back door (after scaling the fence and walking trough the woods)looking for help (less so now, since everyone has a cell phone these days). About a year and a half ago I was reading the paper on a Sunday morning at the kitchen table, I looked up to see a man I didn't know standing on my back porch, when he noticed I saw him he tried to open the door, which I always keep locked for this reason. I walked to the door and asked him what he wanted and he said he needed water because of a broken rad. hose. I did not open the door until I retrieved and loaded a .38 snub nose and put it in my waistband. He was a longhaul truck driver and I end up letting him use the outside hose since I've been in those situations myself. I can only assume he was from some part of the country where people trust each other more and didn't think it would be a problem to open my door, I doubt he realized I was armed. I wasn't going to take any chances.

Your anger is excusable. I'm sorry to hear about this tragedy.