So i was talking to a retired officer today who was at the restaurant i was at, and the topic of guns came up, and he asked me what the gun laws are like now, and i explain them, and then went on how i would like to own a M1 Carbine, but its 9illegal, and he said it is not if you get an Assault weapons permit.

 

Now i have never heard of this so called "permit" can anyone shed some light on its existence, or is this a myth?

 

He said back in the day (he said he retired in 1993), that you could apply for a permit to own assault weapons, and that to qualify you needed to be able to get a handgun permit.

 

but i went on to ask him questions about the application process and he said he was "not exactly sure" but said it was a form you could fill out.

The timeline on aquiring the "AW Permit" was finite and has long since expired. This was when the AWB was being enacted. It gave anyone currently (then) in possession of, what would become an illegal weapon, the opportunity to register it with the state and thereby be able to keep it and any magazines associated with it regardless of capacity. I have a friend with a registered AW and the 20 round mags that feed it.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

He said back in the day (he said he retired in 1993), that you could apply for a permit to own assault weapons, and that to qualify you needed to be able to get a handgun permit.

 

If you dig through the law I believe a "permit to own an assault weapon" does exist. However, it is the same process one would go through to own an automatic weapon and we know how many of those are in private hands in NJ.

 

The only thing an handgun permit would have to do with it is:

 

1. If you can't get a handgun permit you can forget everything else including long guns.

 

2. If they wold require a handgun permit if the assault weapon is a handgun which I doubt.

 

There are those who registered M1 carbines, AR15s, and M1As as Pizza Bob related.

A simple form needed to be filled out. No sign off by Superior Court Judge like MGs. You could register your "assault weapon" as being operational or disabled.

njawr.pdf

A simple form needed to be filled out. No sign off by Superior Court Judge like MGs. You could register your "assault weapon" as being operational or disabled. I will post a copy of both registration forms shortly.

 

PK90, I think the OP was referring to how to legally aquire an assault weapon in NJ now. That is contained in:

 

N.J.A.C. 13:54-5.2 License to purchase, possess or carry a machine gun or assault firearm

 

Click the link below and go to the bottom of page 31.

 

http://njsp.org/info/pdf/firearms/062408_title13ch54.pdf

Bob and Griz are correct. IIRC there was a window of less than 90 days to register your AW's or forever lose the opportunity. MOST people who had collections i'm aware of were convinced the AWB was just an opening to confiscation altogether and either sold off their collections completely or moved out of state. I doubt there were many permits issued.

Bob and Griz are correct. IIRC there was a window of less than 90 days to register your AW's or forever lose the opportunity. MOST people who had collections i'm aware of were convinced the AWB was just an opening to confiscation altogether and either sold off their collections completely or moved out of state. I doubt there were many permits issued.

 

IIRC there were less than 400 guns that were registered operational in the entire state.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/04/nyregion/new-jersey-assault-weapon-ban-nets-one-gun-and-many-appeals.html

 

According to the link above there were 355 registered operational and 191 registered disabled.

 

I went through this time and it seemed to me most owners of "assault weapons" didn't think that the law was going to overturned.

What do you think would happened if you filled out the application and submitted? Do you think there is a slight chance one might get it approved?

Most likely, any pre-ban "AW's" (I hate that nomenclature since it is completely false) have been altered to comply with the current standard of laws according to the EFL unless it has stamped on its receiver the exact wording of one of the banned guns in the statutes.

What do you think would happened if you filled out the application and submitted? Do you think there is a slight chance one might get it approved?

 

When Now or then??? At the time Approval was automatic, the fear then was that it was just the first step to a total ban and confiscation. Florio was trying to "Out California California" and everyone assumed that the end goal was a complete ban, and a loss of all the money we had invested in our guns, so most of us just got rid of them.

so most of us just got rid of them.

 

More boating accidents, huh...

 

Harry

I went through this time and it seemed to me most owners of "assault weapons" did thinkthat the law was going to overturned.

 

I fixed what I was trying to say.

 

What do you think would happened if you filled out the application and submitted? Do you think there is a slight chance one might get it approved?

 

I think in the past over 20 years the law has been in effect someone may have tried this. I don't know if anyone was successful but I kind of doubt it.

More boating accidents, huh...

 

Harry

 

I know one guy who sold his entire collection, My own A2 HBAR lived with a friend in Pa until I finally gave up and sold it