What Level Crime is BB Machinegun Possession?

 

Air/CO2/Gas fired.

 

What level Crime is it and what is the recommended sentence?

I don't know, but those "shoot out the star" vendors at the Jersey Shore seem to get away with it.

BB gun = firearm

 

BB machine gun= Machine gun

 

Magazine size?

 

 

"Unlawful possession of weapons. a. Machine guns. Any person who knowingly has in his possession a machine gun or any instrument or device adaptable for use as a machine gun, without being licensed to do so as provided in N.J.S.2C:58-5, is guilty of a crime of the second degree."

 

Second degree criminal offenses: 5 to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $150,000

I don't know, but those "shoot out the star" vendors at the Jersey Shore seem to get away with it.

I thought it was discussed that they were legal, something to do with them being tethered by their power source...

I thought it was discussed that they were legal, something to do with them being tethered by their power source...

 

they are or were chained to the bench, but i don't see why or how that makes a difference.

 

they are or were chained to the bench, but i don't see why or how that makes a difference.

Don't forget that the state is allowed to pick and chose who is able to get a privilege and not...... Ex- CCW

I thought it was discussed that they were legal, something to do with them being tethered by their power source...

 

So...I could just tether it to my car and run a compressor off of a PTO

 

 

they are or were chained to the bench, but i don't see why or how that makes a difference.

Has to do with the size of the projectile

Has to do with the size of the projectile

 

So the projectiles those carnival machine guns shoot are 3/8" or larger in size? I don't remember them being that large.

 

The exemption for projectile size for "air guns" is 3/8 inch or over:

 

f. "Firearm" means any handgun, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic or semi-automatic rifle, or any gun, device or instrument in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired or ejected any solid projectable ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet, or any gas, vapor or other noxious thing, by means of a cartridge or shell or by the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or explosive substances. It shall also include, without limitation, any firearm which is in the nature of an air gun, spring gun or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling force is a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas or vapor, air or compressed air, or is ignited by compressed air, and ejecting a bullet or missile smaller than three eighths of an inch in diameter, with sufficient force to injure a person.

Contact shpd and ask... what i was told when i asked an officer who came into work

i recall shooting the same copper head BB's at those vendors that every other air rifle uses. Other then that the only other pellets on the market are airsoft BB's, but i've never used one that shot those.

The question is: can NJ ban them? There is a federal law that supersedes NJ law that says states cannot ban airguns outright. Whether that law applies to fullauto or not I don't know.

That is actually a very good question.

I USED TO have a machine gun BB rifle. Ran off of freon or compressed air cans. Shot .177 cal BB's. Fun as hell.

 

So...NO MORE 'fun stuff'.