Good News: NJ AG determines Smart Gun Law is NOT triggered

[John Q. Pirate]

The NJ Attorney General has issued a report finding that the Armatix iP1 handgun that was at times offered for sale in certain stores around the country does NOT meet the criteria of a "personalized handgun" as defined by the NJ Smart Gun law, and will therefore not trigger the law's requirement that all non-personalized handguns (dumb guns) be prohibited from sale in the state after a period of three years. Some welcome news for Garden State gun owners. Read the report here:

https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/anjrpc.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Alerts/12-01-2014_NJ_AG_Smart_Gun_L.pdf

Looks like because the enabling wristwatch has a 10" range and/or may be forcibly removed from the shooter, the technology does not meet the requirement that the gun be only able to be fired by the "authorized user."

 

[Red Wind]

Looks like because the enabling wristwatch has a 10" range and/or may be forcibly removed from the shooter, the technology does not meet the requirement that the gun be only able to be fired by the "authorized user."

Only from New Jersey could we read this. But good news nonetheless.

 

[Willie Sutton]

It's actually NOT good news from a strategic political standpoint.

The good news would be to have the citizens of NJ wake up one morning and find that they can't buy a handgun other than that one model. That "might" be the tipping point that it takes to wake these people up to the knowlage that they are "governed" by people who are effectively fascists.

Pity really....

Willie

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[Red Wind]

The good news would be to have the citizens of NJ wake up one morning and find that they can't buy a handgun other than that one model. That "might" be the tipping point that it takes to wake these people up to the knowledge that they are "governed" by people who are effectively fascists.

We both know that morning will never occur. Certainty not in our lifetimes. It will not get to that point.

 

[Davek1977]

We both know that morning will never occur. Certainty not in our lifetimes. It will not get to that point.

I beg to differ....had the AG interpreted the law differently, that day may very well have come, not only in our lifetimes, but in the very near future, as in weeks or months, not years. "It will never get to that point, not in our lifetimes" is a dangerous, or at the very least, highly questionable, position to take, IMO.

 

[LocoGringo]

Do you trust this and all subsequent AGs to continue this line of thinking indefinitely?

No matter what, that law is terrible and has the ability to destroy RIGHTS in the state of New Jersey because it is left to interpretation of a single person.

 

[Red Wind]

I beg to differ....had the AG interpreted the law differently, that day may very well have come, not only in our lifetimes, but in the very near future, as in weeks or months, not years. "It will never get to that point, not in our lifetimes" is a dangerous, or at the very least, highly questionable, position to take, IMO.

At 1 A.M., it's easy to sometimes take a dangerous or highly questionable position! Try not to get too worked up about it.

 

[Mman]

Once Christie finishes his term it is likely the next AG will be free to change this determination. An AG opinion is not binding like a judicial precedent.

 

[ATLDave]

The good news would be to have the citizens of NJ wake up one morning and find that they can't buy a handgun other than that one model.

I have not seen polling data, but I suspect the majority of NJ residents would be perfectly OK with that.

If you live in the NE megalopolis and aren't affirmatively interested in guns yourself (which is certainly the majority of the population there), you likely see guns as nothing but a blight on society.

This view, IMO, is imbecilic. But nobody is going to "wake up" from it because some category of guns currently available (but that they don't own and don't want to own) become unavailable.

 

[vamo]

It would almost be better for them to trigger the law and have the fight now, I can't see outright banning the sale of so many guns winning in the courts. Sure it will be some short term pain for NJ gun owners, but would probably be the best bet for getting the law off the books. If this law gets triggered while the technology is still new rare, and expensive it will most likely be overturned. If it happens when its more commonplace and affordable then its a crapshoot.