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In New Jersey, anyone seeking to purchase (but not to possess or use at exempt locations) [13] [14] [15] firearms is required to obtain a lifetime Firearm Purchaser Identification card, commonly referred to as FPIC, for the purchase of rifles and shotguns. To purchase a handgun, a separate permit is needed from the Chief of Police of their ...
A new report calls for New Jersey to strengthen its already stringent gun control laws to combat the creation of illegal privately made weapons.. The report from the State Commission of ...
Firearm must be compliant and/or brought into compliance with NJ law before entering NJ. Permit required for concealed carry? N/A: Yes: N.J. Admin. Code § 13:54: New Jersey calls its permit a "permit to carry a handgun" and is a "shall-issue" by judicial ruling for concealed firearm carry. It must be approved by both the municipality's police ...
New Jersey's attorney general sued three firearms dealers Tuesday, alleging one illegally stored firearms that were visible from outside a store and that the two others tried to sell “ghost guns.”
In 2021, the year before the ruling, 631 gun-carry permits were issued in New Jersey, a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the United States. That number went up to 19,933 in 2023, a ...
Although it is commonly referred to as an assault weapons ban, New Jersey's law actually uses the term "assault firearm" to define banned and regulated guns. Among the list of firearms identified as 'assault firearms' are the Colt AR-15, AK variants and all 'M1 Carbine Type' variants. Some New Jersey gun advocates have called its laws "draconian".
Past research has found that states with lax gun laws tend to have higher rates of violence and deaths related to firearms. The US ranks 20th for the highest number of firearm deaths in the world.
The older Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits firearms ownership in the U.S. by certain categories of individuals thought to pose a threat to public safety. However, this list differed between the House and the Senate versions of the bill, and led to confusion. The list was later augmented, modified, and clarified in the Firearm Owners Protection ...