NJ rifle/shotgun permit?
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Treo
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I haven't a clue, but I do have a question; Why do you live in a state where your freedom is that restricted?
countertop
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I grew up in that cesspool of a state. Turned 18, graduated high school, and left for freedom.
Don't understand why anyone feels the need to move there.
Don't understand why anyone feels the need to move there.
PeteRR
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The FID card is all you need for longguns.
geim druth
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PeteRR is right, as far as I know.
As long as you have a FID, you can buy as many rifles and/or shotguns as you like. You only need a seperate permit for each weapon when you buy handguns.
As long as you have a FID, you can buy as many rifles and/or shotguns as you like. You only need a seperate permit for each weapon when you buy handguns.
M203Sniper
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NO you only need you're ID card for a long gun purchase. As many as you like. Every time you buy a pistol you need a new pistol permit.
I left NJ when I joined the Marines; AZ sure is pretty.
I left NJ when I joined the Marines; AZ sure is pretty.
kingpin008
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Why do you feel the nees to make such a comments, when you have no idea what he may or may not have invested in his life where he is? I'm from Maryland, and I get a fair amount of "why don't you just move?" comments about it. Let's just say this - my HOME is in MD. There are other things besides how 2-A friendly a state is or isn't that dictates why someone lives where they do. Don't get me wrong - I love guns, and I love being free to use and own them as freely as I'm able to. But in the grand scheme of things, firearms are WAY down there on my list, behind family, friends, school, work, and where my home and history is. Period.
Just my opinion, but I can't help take those sorts of comments as being extremely rude. Many of us don't have the financial means to just pull up our roots and move on, and to suggest as much strikes me as pretty damn disrespectful to suggest to someone. Like I said, just my opinion.
Treo
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QUOTE:"Why do you feel the nees to make such a comments, when you have no idea what he may or may not have invested in his life where he is? "
first off it wasn't a comment it was a question and I asked it because I have no idea what he has invested in his life where he is.
I grew up in Nebraska my family was (is) there, my life was there all I knew was there. & I left town W/in 3 weeks of turning 18 and never went back. So yeah it's strange to me that someone would voluntarily accept such restrictions on their life & I asked my question in an attempt to understand.
first off it wasn't a comment it was a question and I asked it because I have no idea what he has invested in his life where he is.
I grew up in Nebraska my family was (is) there, my life was there all I knew was there. & I left town W/in 3 weeks of turning 18 and never went back. So yeah it's strange to me that someone would voluntarily accept such restrictions on their life & I asked my question in an attempt to understand.
Tom488
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As others have said, your FID card entitles you to purchase, and possess, as many long guns as you like. The statute in question here is 2C:39-5c, which says it's illegal to possess a rifle or shotgun WITHOUT having an FID card (exemptions to that apply, but having an FID card makes possession of [unloaded] rifles and shotguns legal anywhere).
For example, without an FID card, one could still possess a rifle in his home, and transport it to and from a range, provided it's locked up (locked in trunk, or locked in a case), and travel is direct to range, then direct back home (no stops).
WITH an FID card, you could toss the (still unloaded) rifle on the back seat, drive to the range, stop and get a cup of coffee... you know... almost as if you were a citizen of a free society (and I can joke about that, since I live here, too
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Quote : "WITH an FID card, you could toss the (still unloaded) rifle on the back seat, drive to the range, stop and get a cup of coffee... you know... almost as if you were a citizen of a free society"
Or you could live in Colorado & just throw your loaded ( can't be chambered but that's a hunting thing) rifle in the back seat just because you feel like it, go to Wal-Mart, the Waffle House, & then to the range ( or to any BLM land) and shoot. The whole time you're doing this you could openly carry pretty much that handgun of your choice Sans permit of any kind. Just like a citizen of a free country.
Or you could live in Colorado & just throw your loaded ( can't be chambered but that's a hunting thing) rifle in the back seat just because you feel like it, go to Wal-Mart, the Waffle House, & then to the range ( or to any BLM land) and shoot. The whole time you're doing this you could openly carry pretty much that handgun of your choice Sans permit of any kind. Just like a citizen of a free country.
S4Lee
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You sure about that? Just today, I was at the range, and needed to make a quick stop that would've been so much easier if I could've done it on the way home, but felt that I needed to go home and drop off the guns. The only thing that I would stop for going to/from a range in NJ is gas, but I usually fill up beforehand if I know I'm going to one that's not nearby.
But to the OP - the others are correct: You only need the FID to buy a rifle/shotgun. Go to store, show the card, fill out form, pay, take it home.
PeteRR
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Because I was born there and lived the first 40 years of my life there. You can make a good living there. My Mom still lives there. The people are friendly and speak the same language as me. Cheap gas and they pump it for you. The best pizza and cheesesteaks are found in S.Jersey. A great big 400 year old city is just 10 miles away across the Delaware.
To name just a few reasons. I only left to follow a career opportunity and ended up in... California.
Iron Mike
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Tom488 is correct,also it's not such a bad place.I love living by the ocean,and Broadway is 45 minutes by train and Philly is an hour in the other direction.Could be worse.(true, the gun laws suck)
Ian Sean
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Yes you need the seperate permit. You have to go through roughly the same process for a pistol permit, for your FID long-gun. Same fees and backgound check also, but you only have to do it once, I laminated my FID and still have it.
Buy all the rifles and shotguns of the type NJ allows you to have. NJ has its own version of the AWB. When I lived in S.J. I frequently purchased long guns "across the river" in PA and Delaware gun shops and gunshows with no hassles.
I now reside in PA, to be honest I don't miss NJ a bit. Took me a couple of years to find a job and relocate once I made my mind up about leaving. One of my first acts as a PA resident was to show my Drivers License and walk out of a gun shop in 15 minutes with a 1911, anither thing I did was get my CCW which took 3 weeks.
Buy all the rifles and shotguns of the type NJ allows you to have. NJ has its own version of the AWB. When I lived in S.J. I frequently purchased long guns "across the river" in PA and Delaware gun shops and gunshows with no hassles.
I now reside in PA, to be honest I don't miss NJ a bit. Took me a couple of years to find a job and relocate once I made my mind up about leaving. One of my first acts as a PA resident was to show my Drivers License and walk out of a gun shop in 15 minutes with a 1911, anither thing I did was get my CCW which took 3 weeks.
geim druth
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I'll give you the cheesesteaks, and I'll even admityou have the best pork roll and the best applejack, but I got to stand by Central Jersey for the pizza.
PeteRR
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If you get down to Moorestown, try Sal + Joe's pizza. I'm still going through withdrawal two years afterward.
Treo
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Thanks for the answers guys I am now bowing out of this discussion as I know NOTHING about NJ gun laws.
BTW The best pizza in the world is Leon Gessi's right here in the Springs
BTW The best pizza in the world is Leon Gessi's right here in the Springs
WITH an FID card, you could toss the (still unloaded) rifle on the back seat, drive to the range, stop and get a cup of coffee... you know... almost as if you were a citizen of a free society (and I can joke about that, since I live here, too )
I don't think you can just throw it on the backseat. It still needs to be cased (a garbage bag would do) and unloaded. If you don't have a vehicle that has a trunk it has to be in a locked case.
Magic Man you can buy all the long guns you want with your FID card. It must match the address on your driver's license. For more info go to NJSP.org and click firearms.
I don't think you can just throw it on the backseat. It still needs to be cased (a garbage bag would do) and unloaded. If you don't have a vehicle that has a trunk it has to be in a locked case.
Magic Man you can buy all the long guns you want with your FID card. It must match the address on your driver's license. For more info go to NJSP.org and click firearms.
geekWithA.45
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Tom488's usually pretty well informed, but I'm not so sure this time.
As far as I know, assuming you're not one of the 600 or so people with carry permits, a LEO, former leo, or some other special, anointed class of citizen, transportation of guns requires them to be unloaded, securely cased, trunked, and separated from ammo. If there are exemptions from this, I'd like to see the citation.
There are some weird variations about when you're required to travel ~directly~ to and from an approved place of gun possession, and when you can stop for a cup of coffee on the way, but that's a different kettle of fish.
As far as I know, assuming you're not one of the 600 or so people with carry permits, a LEO, former leo, or some other special, anointed class of citizen, transportation of guns requires them to be unloaded, securely cased, trunked, and separated from ammo. If there are exemptions from this, I'd like to see the citation.
There are some weird variations about when you're required to travel ~directly~ to and from an approved place of gun possession, and when you can stop for a cup of coffee on the way, but that's a different kettle of fish.
Tom609
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I live in NJ because the pizza is way better than anything found in Colorado
Kingpin008; well said.
Kingpin008; well said.
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