I got my Firearms ID Card recently and I am looking to buy a Remington 870. I want to wait and save up for a nice safe. In the meantime, my uncle has a very nice Winchester safe and has offered to let me store my gun there if it's legal. After I buy my gun, can I keep it in my uncle's safe?  I have read all the laws, but they are ambiguous. I know NJ is super strict with firearms, so I want to make sure everything is perfectly legal. Does anybody have experience with this or know what the rule is?

just buy a $120 stack on gun cabinet from walmart. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Stack-On-14-Gun-Cabinet-with-Door-Storage-Matte-Black/45089616

 

or $99 from dicks http://www.walmart.com/ip/Stack-On-14-Gun-Cabinet-with-Door-Storage-Matte-Black/45089616

 

legally can't store it in his safe unless u do transfer paperwork (certificates of eligibility) and he needs a FID every time you transfer it back and forth. some will say just do it anyways but you asked for legal way

Do you have kids at home?  If not, you don't need to store it in a safe.

 

Even with kids - I just use a stack-on gun cabinet...

Do you have kids at home?  If not, you don't need to store it in a safe.

 

Even with kids - I just use a stack-on gun cabinet...

No. I'm actually the youngest person in my household at just under 20. 

Unless you don't trust the people in your house, or worry about theft, you don't "need" a safe. You should get one, but legalities aside, it does you no good to have a gun in someone else's house. Get a cheap cabinet or lock the gun with a cable lock against a framing component in your closet, etc, until you can get a better safe.

The gun comes with a lock, use it. Save your shekels. What ever gun safe you buy divide the number in 1/2. It's what it will actually hold.

Whatever number gun safe you think you might need, multiply by 3+.

Buy once, cry once