My Brother in Law wants me to go with him and shoot on land owned by his Father. He swears that his family has been using the land to shoot on for generations. I would much rather confirm the legality of this with someone who makes or enforces the laws, however the local police have given me a rather unconvincing "should be no problem." I have a Marlin 795 .22 and just orderd a Sig P220 that I would love to bring out and have fun with, but I don't want ANY problems with New Jersey Law Enforcement! Any comment on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

If you are on your land, you should have no issues as long as you have at least 5 acres, are not shooting at a road, houses, etc. Its your land. You may want to check about discharge laws. They prevent a firing of a gun within town limits. Again, if you are on your land, its your land, you do what you want as long as noone gets harmed and you dont make a danger. As far as transporting a pistol (specifically a pistol) to someone else s land that THEY own, I am not so sure of the legality of that due to the way NJ law is written..someone more knowledgeable should hop on this post soon...have fun. Be safe.

As long as the town doesn't have a "no discharge within city limits" law/statute and you are on private property, I wouldn't sweat it. If you are going to private property with your father & brother in law, and they say they've never had a problem with police or neighbors, just go with the flow.

As far as transporting a pistol (specifically a pistol) to someone else s land that THEY own, I am not so sure of the legality of that due to the way NJ law is written

 

Easy, it isn't. If you can map into one of the choices below, you can shoot there with your handguns. Long guns aren't restricted as much if you have a FPID.

 

Activities contained in N.J.S.A 26:39-6f. can be broken down as follows:

1.A member of a rifle or pistol club organized under rules of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and which filed its charter with the State Police;

2.A person engaged in hunting or target Practice with a firearm legal for hunting in this State;

3.A person going directly to a target range, and;

4.A person going directly to an authorized place for "practice, match, target, trap or skeet shooting exhibitions."

Thanks everyone for the replies!

So I travel to a friend's house who has a lot of land where we shoot skeet and occasionally handguns. So if I got pulled over en route to his property and revealed that I had my legally owned handgun in the car with me - then I would be breaking the law and possibly be arrested?