The following is a video transcript.
DON’T COME TO NEW JERSEY WITH A FIREARM
Having practiced gun law in New Jersey for over 30 years, let me give you some advice if you are planning to come to New Jersey with a firearm: Don’t come to New Jersey. It’s that simple.
If you bring your gun to Jersey, you’re asking for trouble. New Jersey has no regard for the Second Amendment and has no regard for your rights. If you have a firearm and you can avoid going through New Jersey, just drive around.
UP TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON
If you do come to Jersey with a firearm, be aware that you are vulnerable to being arrested and charged with serious possessory offenses. Possession of a handgun is a second-degree felony in New Jersey, with a minimum mandatory sentence of three and a half years in prison and up to a maximum of ten years in prison, with no chance of parole. The judge has no discretion and will have to impose at least three and a half years as a sentence.
NO RECIPROCITY
It doesn’t matter that you have a carry license from another state, because New Jersey does not recognize carry licenses from any other states. New Jersey will turn you into a criminal, and there are many people that have had their lives destroyed over New Jersey gun law, so beware.
FEDERAL “Safe Passage” PROVISION
If you still insist on coming into Jersey with a firearm, then you better make sure you are covered and in conformance with 18 U.S.C. § 926A of the federal law, Interstate Transportation of Firearms.
To be in compliance with that law, you must be traveling from a place where you may lawfully possess and carry a firearm to an end destination where you may lawfully possess and carry a firearm. The firearm must be unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported can be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such vehicle.
In the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver’s compartment, the firearm or ammunition must be in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console. The ammunition and firearm must be stored separately.
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK
If you’re going through New Jersey with a firearm, it is extraordinarily dangerous, so avoid New Jersey if you can.
If you have any questions regarding traveling in or through New Jersey, or about New Jersey Gun Law please call U.S. LawShield and ask to speak to an Independent Program Attorney.
I am so glad this type of info is available.. I would have had no idea that New Jersey was a no reciprocity state in regards to license to carry.
Excellent information. However, I avoid such states as New Jersey like the plague now. They’re infested with liberals and high taxes.
Did not know this. Thank you for the information.
Thank you for this valuable information.
So does us law shield protect you in Jersey?
Does your information apply to those in possession of LEOSA credential holders? Does NJ honor those credentials?
How do they get away with it, that’s crazy. Never will go to NJ or NY for that matter I have heard horror stories about carrying in NY too.
Thanks for the info. I am shocked that any state would punish a legal American citizen with a legal carry license. They are violating constitutional 2nd amendment rights and should be challenged in the U.S. supreme court.
I have no reason, and WILL NEVER HAVE A REASON, to travel to New Jersey.
Excellent information. Very scary to think you cannot have a means to protect yourself or your family while traveling.
Also avoid New York.
The only exception, is if you are carrying your concealed handgun, under the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act, of 2004. Active, or qualified retired Peace Officer, meeting all requirements. You have to follow the laws of NJ. only in regards to specific ammunition and magazine capacity. New Jersey has to comply with this Federal law.
One has to take into consideration that even FLYING through an airport in NJ can be an issue should your flight be delayed and lead to missing your connection. The minute you collect your baggage should the airline require you to take possession of it could lead to breaking the law so consult a lawyer first.
Great information. Thank you.
I know 18 USC 926A is for active police officers. I carry under 18 USC 926B, Retired law enforcement, so the same rule would apply to me.
Many thanks!
We appreciate you taking the time to make this video for the sake of honest law abiding citizens. For a State to be able to choose to ignore the constitutional rights of citizens is nothing short of criminal!!
Stay away from NY,MASS,CT,RI AND NJ
Great info!
I think Maryland has similar laws. My wife and I went to D.C. a few years ago. We stayed in Virginia and knowing D.C.’s laws I left my pistol in my car in Virginia. When we left the area; my wife wanted to go see Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. To get there, we had to travel through Maryland. Before we crossed the state line, I unloaded my pistol and stored in the back of our Toyota van. I wasn’t worried about Pennsylvania because Texas had reciprocity with a CCL.
You forgot to mention there have been people prosecuted for merely having a spend cartridge or shot shell in possession or in the vehicle.
Even ammunition is enough to land you in jail.
So I guess if something happens to me on New Jersey and I have bodily harm, then I can sue the state for a.) Not protecting me, and b.) Depriving me of my second amendment rights?
Get enough people to do that and that law will go away…