Can two legal guns make you a felon in New Jersey?

[TexasRifleman]

this was addressed in United States v. Thompson Center Arms Co. (1992). In TC, the Supreme Court held that a TC Contender pistol (accompanied by a rifle length barrel and butt-stock) was not an SBR via constructive posession, that there was a lawful purpose to posessing the buttstock (it could legally be attached after the coposessed rifle barrel was installed).

Careful with Thompson. The ATF has interpreted their loss to apply only to a specific subset of TC firearms sold as a complete kit with both rifle and handgun parts.

ATF has said that a Thompson purchased as a handgun or rifle only , and the other pieces purchased later, does not fit into the ruling.

I think they are out of their minds, but they are on record with that position.

 

[Colonel]

Actually, lots of guns are legal in New Jersey and it is much less restrictive than jurisdictions like New York City

I imagine it's also less restrictive than, say, Uganda or Zimbabwe. Hooray for freedom!

The only real infringement is the de facto restriction on not issuing carry permits.

I knew someone in NJ who gave the CLEO his three or five sets of fingerprints, filled out the forms, paid the fees, jumped through the hoops, said "How high?" to the PD's satisfaction, then waited over 90 days to buy his kid a blessed AIR RIFLE in the 1970s. When Christmas was a few days away and he still hadn't received his "license" or "permit" or whatever, he drove across the river and bought the AIR RIFLE in a hardware store.

Apparently we define "infringement" differently. Good for you, I guess.

 

[kostyanj]

It all depends on your local PD. It took me less than the allotted 30 days to get my pistol purchase permits, while my friend waited over 5 months. The firearms IDs in my town are basically rubber stamped once the background check comes back clean, while in other townships the chief will purposefully sit on them to delay the process.

I'm not defending NJ gun laws, but it's a price you pay for living living so close to NYC. If I didn't work in NYC, I'd move to a less restrictive state.

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

Zoogster good points on CA thank you.