New to the gun world waiting on my HG permit just a simple question I hope I see on sites the price of the gun and nice and tax? what is NICS 

 

Background check.  Costs 16 bucks?  Or something 

After, you wait and pay fees and jump through the hoops you will have to purchase a firearm through a firearms dealer (FFL) that will demand his or her cut for the transactions you do and you will have to go through an additional instant background check at the time of purchase, and you may be delayed with that as well.  Certainly no guarantee that you will be able to pickup your firearm on the day you fill out paperwork for it at your FFL dealer.  That has typcally cost about $20.  If you are NOT buying the firearm through the FFLs stock or and/or ordered through the FFL  (shipping fees may apply), you will have to pay a transfer fee to acquire the firearm that somene brought in for you to pickup or from an external entity that you may have had ship it there (in which case you would be responsible for the shipping fees).  And since you are only allowed a handgun every 30 days, you would be required to pay the additional NICs check for EACH one that you purchased or acquired through an FFL as well as the applicable transfer fees.  

Welcome to the community.   Make sure you familiarize yourself to all of NJ's unjust and Draconian gun laws, as any you may inadvertedly break will result in a felony offense.  

Once you have the firearm, additional costs you will encounter, in roughly increasing order, are:

1) Firearm accessories

2) Ammo

3) Range Membership

4) More Ammo

5) Your Next Firearm

     The cycle then repeats, starting with 1).

 

Remember, this is NOT an inexpensive hobby to participate in.

19 minutes ago, 10X said:

5) Your Next Firearm

After you go through the pain in the butt of starting to apply for a pistol permit, you'll be like "might as well apply for two." Then it comes down to, "No sense having them and not using them."

Then once you discover how (relatively) easy it is to buy long guns without all the purchase permit stupidity, you'll grab an shotgun and a rifle. 

Then you'll develop a burning urge to get out of NJ. 

23 minutes ago, Handyman said:

After you go through the pain in the butt of starting to apply for a pistol permit, you'll be like "might as well apply for two." Then it comes down to, "No sense having them and not using them."

Then once you discover how (relatively) easy it is to buy long guns without all the purchase permit stupidity, you'll grab an shotgun and a rifle. 

Then you'll develop a burning urge to get out of NJ. 

Holy crap... if this isn’t the exact blue print I’ve been inadvertently following. Ha. 

15 minutes ago, ChrisS said:

Holy crap... if this isn’t the exact blue print I’ve been inadvertently following. Ha. 

We've all been there, my friend. 

1 hour ago, ChrisS said:

Holy crap... if this isn’t the exact blue print I’ve been inadvertently following. Ha. 

It's not like we trying to enable you or anything like that.

25 minutes ago, WP22 said:

It's not like we trying to enable you or anything like that.

But we're glad you joined the New Jersey Firearms Addicts Support Group.

Coffee, donuts and cookies without nuts are on the back table.

What about the gun safe that shrinks on you?

”I’ll never need a 20 gun safe, but I can keep some ammo in it”

 

3 minutes ago, Brisco said:

What about the gun safe that shrinks on you?

”I’ll never need a 20 gun safe, but I can keep some ammo in it”

 

Praise Jesus 

14 hours ago, Handyman said:

We've all been there, my friend. 

... and some of us actually escape! 

17 hours ago, Handyman said:

After you go through the pain in the butt of starting to apply for a pistol permit, you'll be like "might as well apply for two." Then it comes down to, "No sense having them and not using them."

Then once you discover how (relatively) easy it is to buy long guns without all the purchase permit stupidity, you'll grab an shotgun and a rifle. 

Then you'll develop a burning urge to get out of NJ. 

Fairly accurate description of my behavior.  Apply for 5 or 6 permits at a time now instead of 2 or 3.  Safe overflowing and in need of a capacity upgrade.  And lately a trend of me emailing real-estate listings in TX to my wife seeing if I can get her hooked.