If your home becomes unlivable due to a catastrophe like hurricane Sandy or you were doing construction and thus need to move out temporarily while the house is being repaired. Can you take and keep your long guns and hand guns in a temporary apartment for a few months? Would you have to do a change of address? Just wondering what folks did during the hurricane.

Your "temporary apartment" becomes your residence. Same as if you were staying at a hotel for a week, as long as they are not forbidden in your rental agreement. Being that this has become your temporary place of residence there is no issue with taking your firearms with you. As for your FID address if it was a permanent move yes it should be changed. Are you getting an address correction sticker for your drivers license. Me personally, I wouldn't bother changing either of them. Being as it is temporary it isn't worth the hassle.

I don't believe you can take your guns to a hotel room and count it as your residence in NJ if you're only staying there a short term without intentions of making it your residence.

If it's just a few guns, I would take them with me and keep my mouth shut.

 

If I had to leave I would bring my guns, I would never think of leaving $60K of guns/ammo in a house that has strangers working in it while I'm away. Locked in a safe or no safe, someone could easily rip you off while you are away and by the time you get back it's too late.

Well yes, common sense would have you do that.  Of course that's what you would do.  

 

But legally, you are not allowed to transfer all your guns to your father while your home has it's roof ripped off and another floor added.  Nor during hurricane Sandy while your house is flooding. 

 

Welcome to the People's Republic. 

 

 

I know, but I'm a risk taker and I value my guns and many of the older ones have been in my family since the late 1800's,

 

I would rather risk going to Jail to prevent them from being stolen by some thug and pawned for crack money, I have them insured but I could care less about the money...It's the history that can't be replaced.