I read that there will be some limited opportunity for public input tomorrow. I suggest we come up with a prioritized list of short questions to ask. Any suggestions and votes? Once we agree, whoever (if any) has a chance at the mike can ask them.

 

Mine are:

1) What will be the financial impact to police departments to comply with the 30 day turnaround limit with 5 year FID reapplications? What funding has been allocated for the increase in manpower that will be needed?

 

2) Given that all FIDs in the state have to be converted to the new form within two years, what technological platform has been chosen to create these new photo IDs, and what funding has been allocated to install the necessary equipment in every police department across the state?

 

3) What will be the criteria for failing a home inspection? Please provide the ICD-9 codes for the psychiatric conditions that will result in a rejection. What instrument will be implemented for the evaluation, and what is the sensitivity and specificity of this instrument for detecting these conditions?

 

The idea of these overly technical questions is to leave the fools sputtering and to expose the complete lack of thought that has gone into actually implementing these bills.

 

I think the ammunition serialization will never go through, so I don't want to waste time on these, but if others feel otherwise, here are some questions:

 

1) What will be the impact on case strength of imprinting a serial number on the inside? Given that all loading data has been generated in non-imprinted cases, how will the state assure the safety of the resultant loads?

 

2) The bill states that it will be a crime to deface the serial number on a bullet. Given that a pure lead bullet will deform after firing to render the serial number illegible, which brand and model of bullet will be acceptable such that deformation after firing is sufficiently minimal to avoid the crime of defacement?

You won't get answers. It is your chance to preach if you want.

none of that matters to them...laws on the books is all they want...they dont even need to understand the words in them...just get them through

I guess there's no point in going then. Just give up.

I guess there's no point in going then. Just give up.

 

No. If enough people show up, they'll get the message loud and clear that we care about the second amendment more than their side cares to destroy it. The antigun rallies got maybe 100 people to show at most, while ours at Trenton got over one thousand. The problem with these people is that they consider those that have no opinion to be on their side. If that was true, we'd be outnumbered, but what I'm gathering from all this is that there are more people who are progun than there are people who are vehemently antigun.

wooly,

 

The answers you've gotten are a bit trite because everyone is short on nerves... However, the way these proceedings work is that you provide testimony to support your position. The Committee may ask questions of those providing testimony. The Committee will not answer questions posed to them. As such, when you provide your testimony, you need to raise the questions you have, give your analysis, and then render your opinion of the impact/reprocussions and this should have as much fact as possible and not be hearsay or emotionally driven or the Committee members will check out. You certainly can raise a rhetorical question for the purpose of envoking thought in the Committee members... The reason you see the Bills so open-ended (which I think raises your questions) is that they're looking to push the responsibility down the line to others to figure out like the NJSP - this is one mechanic why these Bills are so very dangerous.

 

Don't be discouraged by the responses. I have been through testimony on Bills of varying nature over many years. The fact of the matter is probably a good majority of those going tomorrow have never done this before, and you raised a question I am sure many others are wondering themselves.

erased...as njck answered better (like always) :girlwacko: lol