I am curious what year the Reasonable Deviation handgun transportation law was originally put in place. I tried searching to no avail.

I don't knot the answer but I know how you can find it.

 

Everytime the law is revised, those changes become part of the NJ Register.  You can search the NJ Register online at LexisNexis. 

 

If you look up that section of the Statute in The New Jersey Statutes Annotated (also available at LexisNexis) there will be a long list of dates listed before or after each section of the law.   These are dates that the law was revised.  You need to search the NJ Registers for each of those years.  Lexis Nexis has a pretty good search tool once you learn how to use it.

 

It's time consuming.

If you are talking about a NJ statute, you can't find it because it does not exist.

I will research further and post what, if anything, I find. More generally, curious if anyone even has just a gut feel as to what decade it came into being. For example, I first became a firearms owner in the mid-1970s. I dont recall it being a concern back then, in contrast to our present day situation.

If you are talking about a NJ statute, you can't find it because it does not exist.

Really....so where is it on the books then ?

2C:39-6(g)
"All weapons being transported under paragraph (2) of subsection b., subsection e., or paragraph (1) or (3) of subsection f. of this section shall be carried unloaded and contained in a closed and fastened case, gunbox, securely tied package, or locked in the trunk of the automobile in which it is being transported, and in the course of travel shall include only such deviations as are reasonably necessary under the circumstances.”
 

Thanks maintenance

So it looks like it was in the original 2C New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice from 1978. 

Seems so.... btw nice screen name ^^