[AR-10]

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/atlantic/032803PELLETGUN_M28.html

TRENTON - Pellet guns modeled after pistols and semiautomatic handguns would be banned under legislation introduced Thursday.

Bill co-sponsors Assemblymen Gary Guear, D-Mercer, and Peter J. Barnes, D-Middlesex, introduced the measure at a Statehouse press conference, citing concern about pellet-gun incidents in central New Jersey this year.

The bill would prohibit the sale and possession of any air, gas or spring-powered gun designed to resemble a real gun with such detail that an ordinary, prudent person wouldn't know the difference.

Pellet guns usually are black plastic or metal resin with an orange barrel tip. According to the legislators, the tip can be easily covered with marker to make it look real. The close resemblance poses a danger for police officers who have seconds to determine whether a gun fires bullets or pellets, said Guear, who was a police detective for more than 25 years in Trenton.(snip)

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Under the legislation introduced Thursday, the sale or transfer of a pellet gun would be punishable by as much as $15,000 in fines and as many as five years in prison.

Possessing a pellet gun would be a fourth-degree crime punishable by as much as $10,000 in fines and as many as 18 months in prison.(snip)

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

Gary Guear is an ex-Marine, too.

On the other hand, he's a PRNJ Democrat.

His email is AsmGuear@njleg.org .

- pdmoderator

[Coronach]

Pellet guns usually are black plastic or metal resin with an orange barrel tip. According to the legislators, the tip can be easily covered with marker to make it look real. The close resemblance poses a danger for police officers who have seconds to determine whether a gun fires bullets or pelletsUh...no. The cop is going to shoot. As would anyone with a head on their shoulders.

Mike

[P95Carry]

I may be missing something .... but all along, this ''repro look'' regarding pellet guns etc has struck me as something the owner has to take on board ... without any need whatsoever for this extreme degree of legislation.

I mean .... if some dip sh*t wants to go play BG with his ''lookalike 1911'' BB gun then .... more fool him if he gets shot. No one, cops or Joe sixpack will have time to think ''is it - ain't it'' and so the risk is there. Only IMO a thick head is gonna take that sorta risk. So why make em illegal!!??

Stupid use/presentation = possible death. Ain't that enough for any idiots to understand, without this sorta crazy law making being needed?:rolleyes:

But then this is NJ!:banghead:

[ahadams]

ah yes, the preferred weapon of gopher and squirrel muggers everywhere! hmm, squirrel muggers, hey - maybe that's it! the squirrelly assemblycritters are afraid of being mugged!:what:

[El Tejon]

Hey, have I told you guys about the Pizza Hut robbery I worked where Barry BeeGee used a pellet gun and the waitress used a personal pan skillet noginknocker?:D

[AR-10]

Here's another good joke.

Possessing a pellet gun would be a fourth-degree crime punishable by as much as $10,000 in fines and as many as 18 months in prison.

Felony Possesion of a pellet gun.
Oh, wait, that's not so funny.:scrutiny:

[Boats]

"An ordinary, prudent person" standard in New Jersey? Might as well try and bring in a reasonable Leprechaun standard for all the good it would do in defining an unreasonable law.