I am in Illinois and am selling on Gun Broker a Vepr 12 semiautomatic shotgun and has a pistol grip.

There are a couple of people from New Jersey that are interested. They both have asked me if I would be willing to take off the pistol grip and ship it  over there in New Jersey. .

I ship only to FFL holders.

 

Question is : would it be legal to do so? would an FFL in New Jersey accept  a shotgun with the pistol grip removed.?

 

Thanks

 

The gun would be damn near impossiblw to operate without a pistol grip. Its completely upto the ffl to take and complete the transfer...

By removing the pistol grip, it would do nothing for the legality in NJ.  They could screw a new one right back on and make it illegal in NJ...... Personally, I would not do so... but that's just me.  There's a Saiga 12 without the pistol grip - it does not have the hole for the pistol grip or a place to put one.

if the gun does not meet the criteria of an assault weapon at time of sale that is what is relevant....

what law the buyer could break after receiving the gun is beyond your control...

 

the issue you will find is the gun will not be operable without the pistol grip... so the intention is obviously to skirt the law... so even if it is legal good luck finding any FFL that will touch that because FFLs generally err on the side of caution.......

further understand that NJ does NOT recognize the term "thumbhole stock" so using one of those in NJ does not fix the issue...

 

if the gun is legal when you sell it.. that's all that technically matters..

Thank you all  for the response. Didn't like the idea being involved in an attempt to skirt a law.

 

Thanks again and everyone have a good rest of the year.