bushmaster1313
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I am pretty sure that a numbered receiver is always a firearm when it comes to purchase and sale.
What about being a firearm for purposes of carrying it around (especially in NJ)
Same question as to maiing through the post office.
Here are the scenarios:
1) Frame of a revolver without the cylinder
2) Receiver of an AR-15 type without the upper
3) Receiver of a SXS shotgun without the barrels
4) Receiver of Winchester Model 12 without the front end
5) Receiver of Ithaca Model 37 without the barrel.
6) Frame of semi-auto pistol without the slide & barrel.
None of these can be made to fire a projectile but all are subject to BATF as numbered receivers.
Here is language from NJ code:
"Firearm or firearms" means any handgun, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic or semi-automatic
rifle, or any gun, device or instrument in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired or ejected any solid projectable ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet, or any gas, vapor or other noxious thing, by
means of a cartridge or shell or by the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or
explosive substances. It shall also include, without limitation, any firearm, which is in the nature of
an air gun, spring gun or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling force is
a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas or vapor, air or compressed air, or
is ignited by compressed air, and ejecting a bullet or missile smaller than three-eighths of an inch
in diameter, with sufficient force to injure a person.
What about being a firearm for purposes of carrying it around (especially in NJ)
Same question as to maiing through the post office.
Here are the scenarios:
1) Frame of a revolver without the cylinder
2) Receiver of an AR-15 type without the upper
3) Receiver of a SXS shotgun without the barrels
4) Receiver of Winchester Model 12 without the front end
5) Receiver of Ithaca Model 37 without the barrel.
6) Frame of semi-auto pistol without the slide & barrel.
None of these can be made to fire a projectile but all are subject to BATF as numbered receivers.
Here is language from NJ code:
"Firearm or firearms" means any handgun, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic or semi-automatic
rifle, or any gun, device or instrument in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired or ejected any solid projectable ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet, or any gas, vapor or other noxious thing, by
means of a cartridge or shell or by the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or
explosive substances. It shall also include, without limitation, any firearm, which is in the nature of
an air gun, spring gun or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling force is
a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas or vapor, air or compressed air, or
is ignited by compressed air, and ejecting a bullet or missile smaller than three-eighths of an inch
in diameter, with sufficient force to injure a person.
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