Mr.Stu

I think it is more a case of if they reclassify a brace as a stock, you have an SBR. I have a vague recollection that a stripped lower, once it has become a rifle, can never be reverted to anything else. Therefore, the only way to not have an SBR is to remove it before the stroke of a pen that makes the reclassification official. The instant that happens, faster than light, every non-NFA other across the country will instantly transform into highly concealable rifle without undergoing any physical changes whatsoever. Whether you get into a bind with constructive intent by merely possessing a non-NFA without a brace-that-is-now-a-stock but also have a brace that is not attached to anything, I can't say. It is all F-ing ridiculous!

One thing you need to learn, to improve what you know, is that gun store staff and police officers are often not well informed about NJ gun laws. The 3rd reference that makes up the worst 3 places to get gun law advice is the internet, but that's where you posted, so I guess you got the trifecta. Read the statutes. None of what you are saying is law. Could it become law given that the Dems hold both houses and the Governorship? Sure. Nonetheless, it is not law now, just what authoritarians would like to be law. ETA: The police are not entitled to "check your car" as you're travelling to the range. Even if they are able to articulate reasonable suspicion that there are firearms in the car, there is no law being broken if you are travelling to the range. Once you give them that snippet of information their RS has evaporated, unless they can articulate why they have RS that you are not travelling to a range. Just because they may wish to inspect your firearms, doesn't mean they can.

If you acquire a finished lower through an FFL you are not building a "ghost gun". It is a recorded, serialized firearm being transferred.

That's not what I meant. If you get shot in the forehead on purpose, or you get shot in the forehead through bad luck because the person operating the gun is unskilled and meant to shoot the person 3 feet to your left, the damage to your forehead will be the same.

Don't get anything with a really dark tint. If you're shooting iron sights in bright daylight, your pupils will contract and that has a beneficial effect on your depth of focus. A dark tint detracts from this.

A shot that hits you, whether well aimed or not, is still going to do the same amount of damage.

I'm thinking it falls into the same territory as a non-NFA Other Firearm. NJ definition of a shotgun is: "Shotgun" means any firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder and using the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shots or a single projectile for each pull of the trigger, or any firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder which does not fire fixed ammunition. As this has a pistol brace, for now at least, it is not designed to be fired from the shoulder so is not an NJ defined shotgun. Therefore the prohibition of a semi-auto shotgun having a pistol grip does not apply. The VFG takes it out of the category of pistol as it is designed to be fired with two hands.

I thought it was: Step 1. Create problem that is big and scary, and not necessarily real Step 2. Convince the voting public that the problem is too big and scary for individuals to deal with, but not to panic as X politician will fix it Step 3. Get voted back into office Step 4. Issue big government contracts to your cronies Step 5. Got back to step 1

If a town reassesses ONLY your house and find the value higher, your tax bill will go up and everybody else's will go down a little. If they reassess all of the houses in your town and they are all found to be higher, the tax bill will be the same. The town's budget doesn't increase just because the property values go up.

The tax calculation isn't a percentage of the home value. The town, county and State have a budget. The proportion of how much you pay towards that budget is based on the value of your property compared with other properties in your town. If your house goes up while everybody else's stays the same, your property tax will go up because, relatively speaking, your property is worth more than the others. If all the properties go up by the same percentage, your property's value is the proportionally the same as everyone else's so your share of the tax burden is unchanged.

I didn't say she wasn't willing, I said she may not have been mentally prepared to. Most people have never even taken a sight picture with a real, breathing human being in it and I have seen people balk at just that. Pressing the trigger too takes mental preparation. She may have been absolutely ready to fire, but someone was behind the creep, or she may have hesitated. If you're of a mindset that you're going to fire your gun because you felt the need to draw and present it, I suggest you get some training on shoot/don't-shoot/don't-shoot-yet scenarios.

That wouldn't meet my needs either.

How much cutting do you get out of a fully charged battery? 4Ah in my circular saw doesn't last as long as I'd like but that's not a DeWalt.

From the story, the couple attempted to detain the creep at gun point in the yard, but he decided to leave. He was not an imminent threat so self defense would not have been justified. They followed him and continued to attempt to detain him. While the husband was trying to summon the police the creep grabbed the wife's gun and then pointed it at her. He is now an imminent threat and the husband is justified in using lethal force to stop that threat. Additionally, some people are not mentally prepared to shoot at another human being and that hesitation can be enough for the creep to have grabbed the gun from the wife. Even if she was prepared, not all shots are OK to take - be aware of your target and what is beyond. They were at a gas station by now potentially with passers-by and other innocents. Could it be that she made tactical errors? Sure - maybe she did not maintain sufficient distance. Can you say what they were? I doubt it.

They kept trying to turn it around to a question of how many rounds do you need in the average SD encounter. That's irrelevant. They are not limiting how many rounds a person can have (yet). Magazines are considered an "arm" under 2A because they are a vital part of a functioning firearm. Magazines over 10 rounds are in common usage therefore are not unusual. Weapons that are dangerous AND unusual fall outside of 2A protections. If they are not unusual their danger is immaterial. A total prohibition of something protected by 2A fails any level of scrutiny. It is only politics and hoplophobia that drives these arguments.

If you got the chassis style PC Carbine with the pistol grip, yes the thread protector or muzzle device has to be pinned. If you got the traditional rifle stock version without the pistol grip no pinning is required.

I'll keep an eye out in the Florida Man news reports Congratulations and good luck down there.

I've seen someone try and a Ranger told him to take it down. Spinners for .22 caliber are allowed at the 25' berm, but that's it.

The only thing that will help him is the ability to show that he is operating under the exemption which allows transportation directly between his home and the range. For all the good an FPIC will do, he may as well show his social security card. If you are stopped riding a motorcycle and you present a DL without a motorcycle endorsement, do you think you'll avoid prosecution because you have shown that you can drive "some" vehicle? If it makes you feel better to imagine what offenses a cop might make up out of thin air and try to come up with a way to protect yourself from those by pretending documents have properties that they do not actually have, who am I to stop you? However, for the rest of the people reading this: Possession of neither a handgun nor hollowpoint ammunition is excused by the possession of an FPIC. I also carry my FPIC all the time, but that is in case I want to use it for it's actual purpose. i.e. buying a long gun, buying pistol ammo or renewing my driver's license.

They are trying to be seen to be doing "something". They don't care how ineffective it may be.

A non-NFA does not need a pistol brace. It must only NOT have a rifle stock. A bare receiver extension would still be a non-NFA.

You would have to ask them if they'll ship it to another FFL. There is no legal reason why they would not, but they may have a corporate policy. Most online sales work that way, but I don't know about Cabelas.

Perhaps I am getting way too jaded, but this is how I see it playing out... CA AG appeals it to the 9th Circuit. A 3 judge panel concurs with Benito's ruling. This will take over a year and the ruling will be stayed throughout. The CA AG then asks the 9th Circuit to hear it en banc. 9th Circuit agrees and reverses. This will also take another year at least and all the while the statute stands. Finally the case is appealed to SCOTUS who may or may not hear it. Delay, delay, delay. This is why politicians get away with writing unconstitutional statutes. It takes forever to get them thrown out. I reckon they would stop if they faced treason charges each time they push plainly unconstitutional statutes on the public.

Why can't the gun be shipped to an FFL that is closer to you?

I guess it could if he was taking a rifle or shotgun to the range too. If his hollowpoint ammo is for one of 3 pistols as the OP stated in his first sentence, showing his FPIC does absolutely nothing for him.