Rob0115

This what the email said, perhaps I'm confused: Your application for a New Jersey Firearm Purchaser Identification Card and/or Permit to Purchase a Handgun(s) has been approved by the issuing authority. The physical card/permit must be obtained at your issuing police department (as indicated on your application). Please be aware that to obtain this card/permit you must bring proof of identity (Picture ID with Name and Date of Birth) to the issuing police department.

I have an email from the state telling me that they finished on August 2nd. I firmly think they'll get it done. I spoke to the patrolman in charge and he said call him tomorrow and if he doesn't have it he'll make one. He sees it's approved. They're actually good guys and don't want to go after them. I've had a reasonably good run in this life and have committed what I feel good about to St Judes Children's hospital for the rest of my life and into death. Now I wanna use some of it to liberate my people here.

I know as part of the 2018 package of, ridiculous, gun laws the reporting of gun crimes was a part of the "pledge" from Governor Interloper. I reviewed the PPTs posted to the NJ SP website but they data isn't useful for anything other than counting. There is no details whatsoever to do any analysis on the information. I will start searching but will also ask here if there is a better source of gun crime in NJ that provides details?

I decided to do an address change on my FPID since I am going to splitting time here. The only reason I'm doing so is that I can go to a shooting range. I find it odd that something that has the word purchaser in it is required to go shooting these days. I really feel it's an impediment to getting people to try the shooting sport put in place by the very people, us, that want more people involved. I guess I'll chalk it up to "their range, their rules" however dumb I find it to be. Nonetheless I applied through the NJ Portal for an address change on April 4th, 2020. It's been now 5 months and still no FPID. It's just ridiculous and I have to say the Rumson PD has been very pleasant to deal with even though I'm not getting what I want. I thought this process was supposed to be capped at 30 days? I also find it ridiculous that when applying you can choose: Initial, Change of Address, Replacement but it doesn't matter it's all the same stupid process other than the finger printing requirement. Honestly for a change or replacement you should just go down and have them type you up a new one but good 'ol NJ. I may speak to the mayor but how have other folks gotten around this? I hate to get litigious but I'm at the point where, while I'm only here part time, I'm gonna start using some of my hard earned cash, well libs don't think I earned it, to throw behind pretty much any reasonable NJ 2a related lawsuit. I'm also going to have a couple data scientists that work for me do a study on crime rates pre and post mag capacity reduction to scientifically flush out what we already no--it didn't do anything.

Is there a specific place to donate for this one or just send some money to ANJRPC?

Why did I click this link? WHY?!? I can’t imagine how much this is gonna cost me.

CC agreed to the gas tax increase in exchange for a reduction in sales tax, which will go back up, and the estate tax. Only 18 states have a death tax and at the time only NJ and MD had both estate and inheritance. NJ only has one right now but I’m sure that will be restored.

Yes, basically everything becomes a toll road.

Only 4 years ago this was one tax that NJ did not less the nation in and in fact was either 2nd or 3rd lowest. Well why would an overly tax burdened state not wanna be compete to be among the highest like everywhere else. One might think with the precipitous drop in car traffic the roads would, in fact, need less maintenance. Silly me trying to make some sense of things. I read average price for gas in NJ was 2.19 so this is nearly a 5% increase. What’s the total tax now? Over 50 cents per gallon?

I’m gonna try it out and if I like I will send them money to support the effort.

Actually looks better than quick load. Thankfully for VMware I can run it in my Mac.

I'm not sure I caught the price? j/k hope the new owners enjoy.

It’s tough even with insurance. I have a couple policies on CCW and have it written into my umbrella with Pure insurance.

She couldn’t even get her FPID timely.

I spoke to a FFL yesterday who I won't quote and they told me rough 4 in 10 sales he's done since he reopened are first time gun owners, some of whom are stone cold libs. @Bomber pointed out first time applications for FPID is at a high. I'd really like to hear from the FFL's on this board what they are seeing. I know they are incredibly busy in this environment but perhaps they know, anecdotally, how many first time buyers they see. The only three I am sure are FFL's are @remixer @JT Custom Guns @PK90. The dynamic on purchases may be very different in the gun friendly state of AZ but I am curious what is happening there. The FFL, the one mentioned above was NJ, that I spoke to in FL is seeing a bit more first time buyers but I am in a pretty gun friendly AO down there. If we can gather some of the data perhaps we can analyze it and formulate a strategy on attracting more people. I know it's been tried before but we are in a pretty unique period in history what with a pandemic and civil unrest. Just a thought. I mean I can go hide in FL but the we've already been infected so it's only a matter of time before the host becomes necrotic if we don't get active in FL again--side problem.

If you have are single and have an AGI of 200,000 or more or married with an AGI of 250,000 or more don't forget you need to contribute to others health care at 3.8%. Thanks Obama.

You won’t pay state income tax as far as I can tell but the 7% is probably higher than what the tax rate would’ve been. As far as federal taxes on LTCG it could potentially be 0 based on your income. Here’s a calculator to figure it out. It’ll also give you state taxes for investments. https://smartasset.com/investing/capital-gains-tax-calculator#R4VtcFqRXq

A billion in new taxes and of course he reintroduces the millionaire's tax (odd there's no wealth tax in NJ) where he is really just raising the top rate from 8.97 to 10.95% and I'll hope Sweeney DK's it. Here's the odd part. He's raising fees on FPID to 100 bucks and to 50 bucks on P2P which is another deterrent to gun ownership in NJ, or maybe they'll like us more over the revenue. I don't point this out as just an attack on gun owners but an attack on low income people. It's almost a little Jim Crow like to make the hurdle insurmountable for some folks thus, preventing them from achieving their 2a rights. I may even look at the legality of a charity where we can help people below some means test get help paying their fees. I'll have to speak to some folks on the mechanics and legality of this. I thought Democrats were the defenders of the middle class and lower income families. Maybe they are but they just put gun ownership out of reach of some people. Perhaps we can ACLU or some other groups to call this out.

I’ve never read where employment is a requirement to own a gun. It’s an intimidation move. I guess I’ve been fortunate. When I lived in Montville they never even contacted the references and would have paper in one week or less. When I bought this house in Rumson I decided to change of address my p2p because you can’t even go shooting without one these days, at least it seems. With all the craziness I wasn’t expecting it to happen quickly but after a few months I called the local PD to see what was up. They couldn’t have been nicer or more helpful. I made a mistake and rather than reapply the adjusted the info in the SP system and the goods arrived a couple weeks ago. I’m not sure I’d purchase anything but the time I’m here I’d like to be able to go to the range thus I went through the process. I don’t understand why I need an FPID (p for purchase) but it’s a requirement everywhere. It’s also a huge impediment for new shooters. Yes I know at ranges it’s a suicide prevention discussion. However for someone who has guns and no FPID I don’t see how that’s helpful. Moreover, many ranges won’t let me on (some clubs won’t allow me to join) because my FPID and D/L don’t match (FL license). I dealt with that before I left the first time and even explained to several FFL’s that ID and residency are two different things and is even explained on the 4473 for multi-state residents. I’ve been denied purchase (their store their rules) unnecessarily. It’s just odd that notion of FPID and marching d/l (not a requirement) carries through to range membership. Again, NJ firearms community making an already difficult environment unnecessarily worse. I keep my FL D/L primarily because their DMV is far and away much easier to deal with. Licenses are for 10 years and for CCW purposes reciprocity for resident vs non-residents has a much larger number of states.

You don’t need to disclose employer.

@Bomber130,000 is a nice uptick on the number. Is that new first time not including change of address?

Well amongst other reasons. We are tied with Mass for last in gun ownership. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-state/?ftag=ACQd3cf1ab&vndid=msn-msn#tblciGiBsXOOBnmhx-oOz4-c87T4Skjl_Y3ErfwX5sTv8BQWgDiC6pj4 oddly the Gunshine state is 40th and Texas ain’t much better. Montana is number one with ~67% household gun ownership.

This may be something that should not be invented. Chili doesn’t have beans never mind nuts. But alas, we are dealing with @Zeke

Ugh, I’ve spent time here in CNJ and they say pork roll. I still order Taylor ham.

I’m really sorry man. It’s rough but think of the good times.