They are Making it Easy for Our Lawyers

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For ANY firearm to be legal in New Jersey, it must now meet two criteria established by this law:

1) the firearm must be imprinted with a serial number; and

2) the serial number must be registered with a federally licensed manufacturer.

Under these requirements, the following types of firearms are now banned in New Jersey with no grandfathering or exceptions:

1) All pre-1968 rifles, shotguns, and handguns without serial numbers. Warning: Prior to 1968, there was no federal law requiring guns to have serial numbers.

2) All modern rifles, shotguns, pistols, and revolvers with serial numbers, but are not registered with a federally licensed manufacturer. This would include most modern imported rifles, shotguns, pistols, and revolvers, plus foreign firearms, and military surplus firearms from countries around the world, if these companies were not federally licensed manufacturers (e.g., Lugers, P-38s, Mausers, Arisakas, Enfields, SKSs, Carcanos, Webleys, Norincos, Mosins, etc.).

3) All BB guns without serial numbers. New Jersey includes BB Guns/Air Guns in its legal definition of a “firearm.”

4) All BB guns with serial numbers but are not registered with a federally licensed manufacturer. This would include most BB guns made, because there is no federal firearms manufacturing license required to make BB guns (e.g., Daisy, Crossman, Gamo, etc.).

5) All muzzleloading/black powder firearms without serial numbers. New Jersey includes black powder guns in its legal definition of “firearm.”

6) All muzzleloading/black powder firearms with serial numbers but are not registered with a federally licensed manufacturer. This would include most muzzleloading/black powder firearms made and/or imported because there is no federal firearms manufacturing license required to make or import muzzleloading/black powder firearms.
5) All antique firearms without serial numbers. Antique firearms are “firearms” under New Jersey law.

6) All antique firearms with serial numbers but are not registered with a federally licensed manufacturer. This would include most antique firearms because a federal firearms manufacturing license did not even exist at the time the antique firearms were manufactured.

Evan Nappen
May 26, 2023
New Jersey Politicians Enact Largest Gun Ban in U.S. History

Emphasis in the original.

What these ignorant and/or evil people don’t know is that when they make the law so egregious it becomes a cakewalk for our lawyers to take a healthy bite out of the law. That bite creates a precedent which makes the next bite easier than it would have without the first bit.

As irritating the stupid unconstitutional law is, it creates a slippery legal slope we can take advantage of.

Via email from Rolf.

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5 thoughts on “They are Making it Easy for Our Lawyers

  1. I wonder how much of this Idiocracy is politicians spending tax dollars and us spend our dollars even if it is an easy win it costs lots of money. I guess it keeps us from spending money on elections.

  2. Oh my, they are desperate aren’t they. Communist overreach. Happens every time.
    I wonder if the courts will finally get pissed and start asking attorneys the question we’ve been asking all along.
    “What part of, shall not be infringed, don’t you understand?”

  3. They know what they are doing. They also know that for EVERY law they create that is an egregious violation it takes MILLIONS of dollars and months or even years of legal wrangling to get the law overturned. Then they just change a few words and do it again. All the while they are SUCCESSFULLY infringing on the Second Amendment. And they pay NO PENALTY for doing this. Which is why they continue doing it. Because it works. Till violating our rights costs these people PERSONALLY they have no reason to stop doing so…and will continue. And since the courts have ZERO method of actually enforcing any ruling we are left at the whim of the executive branch to use those rulings to defend our rights. More often than not it’s the executive branch dead set on ignoring our rights.
    TINVOWOOT. We aren’t going to solve any of this in a legal, pleasant peaceful manner.

  4. Was Springfield Armory (M1Garand, M1903 etc) A “Federally licensed manufacturer”? Remington Rand? (Typewriter company that made M1911A1s.)

    Good lord, the incompetence is unbelievable.

    • “Incompetence”? I would not believe that, not without very strong evidence supporting that notion. When politicians do this sort of thing over and over, you have to stop saying they do it because they are stupid.

      As Thomas Jefferson worded it: “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism…”

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