Looks like Middle Township, in Cape May County, is experiencing an increase in Firearms ID Card applications.

 

Township police have also seen an increase in the number of people applying for a firearm identification card.....from January to July, the township has had 128 requests for firearm permit identifications

 

It would be interesting to see the overall increase in FID app's that have been submitted across the State, but I'm always told that info is under lock and key, which while sorta lame, is a good thing I guess. Otherwise we'd have the anti's going ape $hit about this info like they have in the past out in Illinois.

 

http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/index.php/2010-04-07-20-18-16/middle-township-news/27375-gun-sales-up-in-township-.html

It could be a number of factors.

 

I can tell you that in the past two years, I've had more people ask me to take them shooting that I've had in... 15 years or so.

 

I've also seen a few people get their FID, but not buy anything. I think that was how they got around the spousal notification requirement. Their spouse let them get their FID as long as they didn't buy a gun. So the FID was for the "just in case" scenario where it just made them feel good to know that they could go to Dicks and buy a shotgun and 10 shells if they ever needed it.

 

It seems like it is growing. Maybe people are just waking up?

I think that was how they got around the spousal notification requirement.

 

This isn't the first time I've heard this mentioned, but I've never seen that requirement anywhere. Was it in the statutes, or was this one of those "additional requirements" that NJ2AS has been fighting to remove?

This isn't the first time I've heard this mentioned, but I've never seen that requirement anywhere. Was it in the statutes, or was this one of those "additional requirements" that NJ2AS has been fighting to remove?

 

From what I know, the spousal notification thing was dreamed up by Mayor Susan Bass Levin when she was mayor of Cherry Hill. She requested that the police chief do it. He did, and it has been going on ever since. Maybe other towns took her cue? Maybe multiple towns developed it independently.

 

I think NJ2AS is concentrating in Ocean County for now. Once they get done in Ocean County, they will move on to other cities, one at a time.

My local chief said that the requests in our little town are skyrocketed

I know someone who called yesterday for an appointment for fingerprinting in Cherry Hill. They are so backlogged that the first available appointment is July 30!