Quoted from another forum.
WTF. I guess NJ is not in America!
“ NJ makes no distinction between concealed or open carry. All "possession" of firearms is illegal with a few exceptions written into the law such as at your place of residence, at a business you own, at the range, or at the gun shop, and traveling in between IF the gun is cased and unloaded.
NJ issues about 400 carry permits a year and permits are good for 2 years. 9 million residents. That's .009%. In the rest of the country 12% have carry permits.
The list is secret but the assumption is that most of these are armed security guards. These carry permits will have a restriction on the permit that says something like "during working hours". We had a security officer here arrested recently because he had his carry gun in his glove compartment on his drive home from work.
We have out-of-staters arrested every year who are just passing through because they didn't really think NJ was as bad as it is. One guy was supposed to transfer from one flight to another in Newark. His second flight was delayed so the airline put him up in a hotel. The next morning he returned to the airport and declared his firearm - just like he had done in his home state the day before. He was arrested for possession of a firearm.
Penalty is 3-1/2 - 10 years for possession - that is unless you're arrested with a gun while dealing drugs or robbing a gas station. Then you get much less time. Prosecutors push for harsher sentences as a message to "gun nuts". Armed robbery isn't as serious in NJ.”
WTF. I guess NJ is not in America!
“ NJ makes no distinction between concealed or open carry. All "possession" of firearms is illegal with a few exceptions written into the law such as at your place of residence, at a business you own, at the range, or at the gun shop, and traveling in between IF the gun is cased and unloaded.
NJ issues about 400 carry permits a year and permits are good for 2 years. 9 million residents. That's .009%. In the rest of the country 12% have carry permits.
The list is secret but the assumption is that most of these are armed security guards. These carry permits will have a restriction on the permit that says something like "during working hours". We had a security officer here arrested recently because he had his carry gun in his glove compartment on his drive home from work.
We have out-of-staters arrested every year who are just passing through because they didn't really think NJ was as bad as it is. One guy was supposed to transfer from one flight to another in Newark. His second flight was delayed so the airline put him up in a hotel. The next morning he returned to the airport and declared his firearm - just like he had done in his home state the day before. He was arrested for possession of a firearm.
Penalty is 3-1/2 - 10 years for possession - that is unless you're arrested with a gun while dealing drugs or robbing a gas station. Then you get much less time. Prosecutors push for harsher sentences as a message to "gun nuts". Armed robbery isn't as serious in NJ.”
