New Jersey Gun Owners Needs Your Help!

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New Jersey Gun Owners Needs Your Help!

NJ ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER AMMO BAN & MORE!

A588 would enable the Attorney General to ban handgun and rifle ammunition by executive fiat.

Common hunting, target, and self-defense ammunition would be subject to ban under A588, along with BB’s, airgun pellets, and plastic airsoft pellets!

Additional legislation being considered (A1013) could land gun owners in jail for refinished or damaged firearms that might be deemed “defaced” "



http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php?/topic/31510-nj-assembly-committee-to-consider-ammo-ban-more/

(Regardless whether you live in New Jersey or know someone who does. This information needs to get out to everyone.)

 

[WTBguns10kOK]

Interesting the way the bill is written. The AG can summarily ban all newly designed ammunition if he so chooses. Seems unlikely to pass, but it's also interesting because I like the idea of the 5.7 round and wish handguns would move towards smaller caliber, higher speed rounds.

 

[bushmaster1313]

Under current federal and State law, hollow nose or dum-dum bullets are prohibited,

The above is from A588. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/A1000/588_I1.HTM

Here is the skinny on hollow points in New Jersey from the New Jersey State Police: http://www.njsp.org/about/fire_hollow.html

N.J.S.A 2C:39-3f(1) limits the possession of hollow nose ammunition. However, there is a general exception that allows for the purchase of this ammunition but restricts the possession of it to specified locations. This exception provides that:

(2) Nothing is sub section f (1) shall be construed to prevent a person from keeping such ammunition at his dwelling, premises or other land owned or possessed by him, or from carrying such ammunition from the place of purchase to said dwelling or land . . . [N.J.S.A 26:39-3g (2)].

Thus a person may purchase this ammunition and keep it within the confines of his property. Sub section f (1) further exempts from the prohibited possession of hollow nose ammunition "persons engaged in activities pursuant to N.J.S.A 2C:39-6f. . . ."
N.J.S.A 26:39-3f. (1).

Activities contained in N.J.S.A 26:39-6f. can be broken down as follows:

1.A member of a rifle or pistol club organized under rules of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and which filed its charter with the State Police;
2.A person engaged in hunting or target practice with a firearm legal for hunting in this State;
3.A person going directly to a target range, and;
4.A person going directly to an authorized place for "practice, match, target, trap or skeet shooting exhibitions."


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[Tom609]

Got this in an email today from the ANJRPC...

GUN OWNERS PREVAIL IN TRENTON!


After a massive outcry from the Second Amendment community against A588 (backdoor ammo ban) and A1013 (defacing firearms - unintended consequences), the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee "held" A588 and amended A1013 in response to gun owner concerns.



The effect of holding A588 is to send it back to the drawing board for further review and amendment, and this legislation that would have opened the door to a sweeping ammunition ban will not advance in its present form.



The amendments to A1013 are still under review, but it is very apparent from the actions of the Committee and the on-the-record statements made by its members that the Committee has heard honest gun owners loud and clear.



We will continue to monitor these bills and dozens of others that we are watching and provide early warning of threats to our Second Amendment rights.



And thank you for your calls, faxes and emails to the Committee members!

 

[bushmaster1313]

Woo Hoo!