Anyone able to say what the following are defined to be under New Jersey gun law:

 

1.  Complete slide for a semi-automatic pistol, with firing pin and bolt.

 

2.  Complete lower for a semi-auto pistol (with serial number)

 

3.  Complete upper for a semi-auto black rifle, with firing pin and bolt (no flash hider or bayonet lug)

 

4.  Complete lower for a semi-auto black rifle (with serial number).

 

5.  Complete stock and receiver from a side by side shotgun with no barrels (with serial number) 

 

6.  Complete rear part of a Winchester Model 12 (with serial number)

 

7. Complete front part of Winchester Model 12 (with serial number)

they are firearms...anything with a serial is a firearm

Anyone able to say what the following are defined to be under New Jersey gun law:

 

1.  Complete slide for a semi-automatic pistol, with firing pin and bolt. - Gunsmith parts

 

2.  Complete lower for a semi-auto pistol (with serial number) - A handgun which I hope you inherited or bought out of state legally.

 

3.  Complete upper for a semi-auto black rifle, with firing pin and bolt (no flash hider or bayonet lug) - Gunsmith parts or as I like to say "an expensive hunk of metal incapable of firing a projectile"

 

4.  Complete lower for a semi-auto black rifle (with serial number).  A long gun that is well on its way to becoming evil. 

 

5.  Complete stock and receiver from a side by side shotgun with no barrels (with serial number) ??

 

6.  Complete rear part of a Winchester Model 12 (with serial number) If it does not function, then its just parts..

 

7. Complete front part of Winchester Model 12 (with serial number) Again, if it does not function (as a long gun) then its just parts  but  IANAL - I missed the chance when it was calling me  ;(

Anyone able to say what the following are defined to be under New Jersey gun law:

 

1.  Complete slide for a semi-automatic pistol, with firing pin and bolt.    Gun Parts

 

2.  Complete lower for a semi-auto pistol (with serial number)   Gun

 

3.  Complete upper for a semi-auto black rifle, with firing pin and bolt (no flash hider or bayonet lug)   Gun Parts

 

4.  Complete lower for a semi-auto black rifle (with serial number).  Gun

 

5.  Complete stock and receiver from a side by side shotgun with no barrels (with serial number)   Gun

 

6.  Complete rear part of a Winchester Model 12 (with serial number)  If you mean the receiver, Gun

 

7. Complete front part of Winchester Model 12 (with serial number)  If you mean the barrel, Gun Parts

they are firearms...anything with a serial is a firearm

 

Where does it say that?

 

I have shotguns with matching serial numbers on the receiver and the barrels.

 

Anyone able to say what the following are defined to be under New Jersey gun law:

 

1.  Complete slide for a semi-automatic pistol, with firing pin and bolt.    Gun Parts

 

2.  Complete lower for a semi-auto pistol (with serial number)   Gun

 

3.  Complete upper for a semi-auto black rifle, with firing pin and bolt (no flash hider or bayonet lug)   Gun Parts

 

4.  Complete lower for a semi-auto black rifle (with serial number).  Gun

 

5.  Complete stock and receiver from a side by side shotgun with no barrels (with serial number)   Gun

 

6.  Complete rear part of a Winchester Model 12 (with serial number)  If you mean the receiver, Gun

 

7. Complete front part of Winchester Model 12 (with serial number)  If you mean the barrel, Gun Parts

 

^^^^^THIS^^^^^

they are firearms...anything with a serial is a firearm

 

Not true.  Barrels often have serial numbers and in most cases are NOT firearms except for one or two specific instances.

Where does it say that?

 

I have shotguns with serial numbers on the receiver and the barrels.

Many older guns have the serial # on many parts but the receiver is the gun. The rest are gun parts. Unless NJ wants to change that as well.

 

I love the term "black rifle" I guess if your AR or AK is in camouflage it must be okay and not as evil as the black one. Damned racist lawmakers.

Not true.  Barrels often have serial numbers and in most cases are NOT firearms except for one or two specific instances.

I would assume if the barrel is permanently mounted to the receiver and the two are really one solid piece then IT would be a gun. I can't think of another situation.

I understand that a handgun without a firing pin has been held to be a firearm for the  purpose of New Jersey possession

And I understand that a stripped receiver is a firearm under Federal law for the purpose of interstate sale

But where does it say that a stripped receiver is a firearm for New Jersey possession?

It varies which part is the firearm. Some examples:

 

SCAR the upper is the firearm.

FAL the upper is the firearm.

Robarm XCR the lower is the firearm.

AR15 the lower is the firearm.

Ruger Mark2 Pistol I believe the upper is the firearm.

1911 the lower is the firearm.

The stripped receiver has a serial # and parts can be added to it to make it a gun. The part with the serial # is what goes into the books to show you have possession of that

which is considered a gun. I can buy a trigger for a gun, but if that trigger was used in a crime, It can never be traced back to the owner. That stripped receiver can be traced.

 

Whichever critical gun part the manufacturer puts the only serial # on becomes the gun under the law since record of it's sale can be logged and it can be traced back to it's lawful owner.

Bushmaster the question will become how you came into possession. Was it by legal means? These are some of the statutes you should reference:

 

N.J.A.C. 13:54-3.12

N.J.A.C. 13:54-3.13

2C:39-1. Definitions.

 

 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.

 

   k.     "Handgun" means any pistol, revolver or other firearm originally designed or manufactured to be fired by the use of a single hand.

 

m.     "Rifle" means any firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder and using the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.

     n.     "Shotgun" means any firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder and using the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shots or a single projectile for each pull of the trigger, or any firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder which does not fire fixed ammunition.

I would assume if the barrel is permanently mounted to the receiver and the two are really one solid piece then IT would be a gun. I can't think of another situation.

Ruger Mk I or II the barrel is permanently mounted to the receiver.

 

 

I understand that a handgun without a firing pin has been held to be a firearm for the purpose of New Jersey possession

And I understand that a stripped receiver is a firearm under Federal law for the purpose of interstate sale

But where does it say that a stripped receiver is a firearm for New Jersey possession?

Federal law calls a stripped receiver (AR, AK, bolt action, etc) a firearm. NJ law has to go along with that.

 

Many inexpensive guns made before 1968 have no serial number but the receiver is the firearm.