quick question

 

What happens if the box you had all your COE etc from gun purchases or sales get's destroyed?  Probably a stupid question but am curious.....thanks

I too would like to know. When I first looked for requirements on COEs I did not find any requirement for the lenght of time they much be kept. Is there any requirement to keep them for any specific timeframe?

If there was I would think they would put it in the statutes, or Administrative Code. 

I never saw anything about it

If anything, I keep everything for my own peace of mind. With long guns, I suppose it's lesser a problem... With hand guns, I'm usually more concerned if they were FTF sales.

 

 

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A member here posted in a similar thread a while ago about scanning all of his coe's and permit's into the computer to always have a copy of them.  I haven't gotten around to it yet but I think I am going to, just for my own peace of mind.  

I keep copies in my safe at home and duplicates in my parents' safe. With that being said, there is no requirement to hold onto them, but if a gun you sold is ever used in a crime and traced, you'll find LE at your front door. Personally, I'd rather be able to produce that COE and send them on their merry way.

Here's a different spin on your question: What do you imagine are the number grandpa's and dad's, residents here for the last century, who don't have a single COE in their possession, nor have ever seen one, despite having a collection of one or a dozen firearms? I'll bet quite a few.

Quite a few handguns floating around without PP also.

That's it in a nutshell!

 

I keep copies in my safe at home and duplicates in my parents' safe. With that being said, there is no requirement to hold onto them, but if a gun you sold is ever used in a crime and traced, you'll find LE at your front door. Personally, I'd rather be able to produce that COE and send them on their merry way.

 

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Handguns purchased on a P2P will have a copy retained by the issuing authority and computerized records with NJSP. Dealers will have records of all gun sales.

 

There are easily thousands of handguns and long guns in the state that were purchased legally elsewhere before the owners were NJ residents that records don't exist for one reason or another.

thanks for the replies.....