At WLB PD they now have a firearms safety information page that include all the safety info about handling guns, including things such as keep muzzle down range, always check to make sure unloaded. i feel that this is actually a good extra piece of paper to include and they want you to initial after every safety rule to make sure that you read them. I give WLB police a thumbs up for taking initiative and actually trying to make shooting a little bit safer for the first time shooters.

IMO, it is to cover their assses. Why not just give you a copy.

If they are making this (the initialing of the safety rules) a requirement to obtain your FPID or P2P, then it is illegal. Good, bad or indifferent, they are not allowed to do that.

 

There was a thread a while back where we discussed some of the "good" violations - those that may actually speed-up the process, and the general concensus was that if we allow them to get away with those that benefit us, we are setting a precedent and the next requirement may not be so beneficial - shooting ourselves in the foot, as it were.

 

No problem with them just handing them out to each applicant, but to make issuance conditional on initialing these rules is a no go.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

Give them a copy of the statute that prohibits any additional requirements for a permit, and ask them to initial each line.

Where can I find a copy of that? My new town requires their own form and I'd like to show them this statute.

 

thanks!

 

Give them a copy of the statute that prohibits any additional requirements for a permit, and ask them to initial each line.

Where can I find a copy of that? My new town requires their own form and I'd like to show them this statute.

 

thanks!

 

NJSP website under firearm statutes. 2C:58-3,f

Here you go

http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/legis/2003c73.pdf

 

"There shall be no conditions or requirements added to the form or content of the application, or required by the licensing authority for the issuance of a permit or identification card, other than those that are specifically set forth in this chapter"

yeah why make it more complicated and confusing than it already is... I say go green and stop wasting paper!