The Ammo Book Rule

Hello

After reading a number of comments here and elsewhere, I came ot the conclusion that the current practice of gunstores recording the sale of handgun ammunition was not required by law, and I have written this in some of my posts.

I have discovered tht this is wrong. Recording ammunition sales is required in law. My apologies to everyone I may have mislead by posting incorrect information.

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N.J.A.C. 13:54-3.14

Permanent record of receipt and disposition of firearms and ammunition

(b) Every retail dealer of ammunition shall maintain a permanent record of ammunition acquisition and disposition.

The record of sale or disposition shall be maintained in a bound form and shall contain the date of the transaction, name of manufacturer, caliber or gauge, quantity of ammunition sold, name, address and date of birth of purchaser, and identification used to establish the identity of purchaser. The dealer shall confirm the age of the purchaser of rifle and shotgun ammunition to be at least 18, and handgun ammunition to be at least 21. No record need be maintained for the sale or disposition of shotgun or rifle ammunition. However, sales or other dispositions of ammunition intended for use in any other firearm and which may be interchangeable between rifles and handguns, as well as hollow-nosed or dum-dum ammunition, must be recorded. The records shall be maintained in chronological order by date of acquisition and disposition and shall be kept at the location the business is being conducted.

© The firearms and ammunition acquisition and disposition record as prescribed under this section need not be required, provided the dealer maintains an updated Federal firearms and ammunition record on firearms or ammunition purchased or acquired and sold as prescribed in Title 26, Internal Revenue, Chapter 1 "Commerce in Firearms and Ammunition", and to the extent that the information required by this section is included on such records. If not included, then the Federal records are to be supplemented so as to include all information required by this section.