Quote: (08-02-2015 08:35 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:
Because I live in the wonderful state of NJ
That would be your first mistake in gun-ownership.
Seriously, move. The laws in New Jersey are too fucked up to make that state worth residing in for gun owners.
The fact that you have to have a permit just to buy a gun in NJ is shitty enough, let alone the fact that becoming a legal concealed-carrier in that state is almost impossible.
That permit to own shit recently cost one woman her life:
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Bowne, 39, had a restraining order against Eitel when he killed her in her driveway last Wednesday, but she was still waiting for Berlin Township Police Chief Leonard Check to approve the gun permit she had applied for on April 21. Tragically, she had gone to the township police department just two days before her death to check on the status of her languishing application.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/10/no-...un-permit/
And if you get caught carrying your gun, even if you're ignorant of NJ laws, or you're in your car, or because you simply forgot you had it with you, expect to be raped in the ass by the long broomstick of the law. Perhaps if you're lucky, that fat fuck of a governor will pardon you several years later only because he's running for president.
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Gov. Chris Christie has granted a pardon to Shaneen Allen, the Pennsylvania mother and gun owner who was arrested in October 2013 for carrying a concealed weapon into New Jersey.
Allen, a single mother of two, was stopped by a New Jersey state trooper in Hamilton Township near Atlantic City for performing an unsafe lane change. During the stop, Allen had informed the officer that she was a resident of Pennsylvania and that her home state had issued her a permit to carry a concealed handgun, which she had with her in her car that day.
But New Jersey's strict gun laws require weapons to be stored unloaded and locked in the trunk, and so Allen was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and spent 40 days in jail before making bail.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/201...pa_mo.html
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A North Carolina man doing emergency, storm-related utility repairs in Mercer County last month is facing possible prison time after volunteering to a police officer in Hamilton that he had a handgun in his vehicle.
The admission to police, the customary and legal thing to do in North Carolina, landed Brian Fletcher in handcuffs and a night in the Hamilton police lockup.
He posted $25,000 bail the next morning and went back to work facing a felony gun possession charge.
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2015/...elief.html
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Josey-Davis' nightmare began on the morning of Sept. 20, 2013, when he was preparing to leave his North Brunswick, N.J., home for a job as an armed security guard with Loomis Armored, a company responsible for transporting money to banks.
While unloading his 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun inside his car, his 6-year-old sister wandered into the family's garage, startling Josey-Davis. He quickly tucked the firearm inside the glove compartment and out of the child's view, according to his account.
Hours later, while driving at night with his girlfriend in Highland Park, he was pulled over. Josey-Davis says he was going below the speed limit.
Because he did not yet have a permit to carry the gun -- which was stored, still loaded, in the glove compartment -- he was arrested.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/...ted-felon/
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A TX man, who was in the process of moving to Maine, made a very simple mistake, and never made it to his hew home. Dustin Reininger is serving a 3-5 year prison sentence in the Garden State because he made a mistake, he stopped to take a nap in NJ during his multi day drive from Texas to Maine.
Police approached Reininger’s car when he was taking a nap near a bank in Readington, NJ.
Police then searched the suspect’s vehicle after seeing gun cases laying in the back seat and found the man’s personal gun collection, which was being transported in the car. This included 14 rifles, 4 shotguns and 3 handguns along with hollow point ammunition (which is extremely illegal to possess in public in NJ). Reininger was arrested, convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison, with a chance for parole after 3.
http://gunssavelives.net/blog/reason-num...in-prison/
And even if you're in legal possession of your guns, don't think NJ won't still try to fuck your shit up. Consider the case of
Brian Aitken:
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I got sentenced to seven years in prison for legally owning guns. I had purchased them in Colorado and brought them with me to New Jersey, home to some of the harshest gun laws in the country, where I moved to be closer to my young son. I complied with all of the regulations, but one day the police searched my car and charged me with unlawful possession of a weapon—even though my handguns were locked, unloaded, and in my trunk. The court said it was on me to prove that I wasn’t breaking any laws, which obviously was very difficult. When Reason magazine covered my case, it wrote, “Even the jurors who convicted him seem to have been looking for a reason to acquit him. But the judge gave them little choice.”
http://www.vice.com/read/my-life-as-a-co...hing-wrong
Oh, and also New Jersey doesn't care if you break their laws through absolutely no fault of your own.
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Revell was flying from Salt Lake City to Allentown, Pa., on March 31, 2005, with connections in Minneapolis and Newark, N.J. He had checked his Utah-licensed gun and ammunition with his luggage in Salt Lake City and asked airport officials to deliver them both with his luggage in Allentown.
But the flight from Minneapolis to Newark was late, so Revell missed his connection to Allentown. The airline wanted to bus its passengers to Allentown, but Revell realized that his luggage had not made it onto the bus and got off. After finding his luggage had been given a final destination of Newark by mistake, Revell missed the bus. He collected his luggage, including his gun and ammunition, and decided to wait in a nearby hotel with his stuff until the next flight in the morning.
When Revell tried to check in for the morning flight, he again informed the airline officials about his gun and ammunition to have them checked through to Allentown. He was reported to the TSA, and then arrested by Port Authority police for having a gun in New Jersey without a New Jersey license.
He spent 10 days in several different jails before posting bail. Police dropped the charges a few months later. But his gun and ammunition were not returned to him until 2008.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/...eme-court/
In summary, fuck New Jersey. I'm much happier living in a free state that respects my rights to gun ownership.
