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.
What about California
What about retired LEO with HR218? I know hollow points are illegal there. Any advice
I am retired law enforcement (credentialed) and qualify every year under HR 218. Does HR 218 cover me in states like New Jersey?
With the shear number of reprobate crooks and vast organized crime nar-do-wells in tow, in the great state of New Jersey.. a ridiculously stringent 2nd Amendment articulation is to be expected! Two lock boxes in separate/remote locations in the car.. What Horse Hockey!!
Thank you for the info–Good-bye NJ!!
New Jersey is then Totally Responsible for any and all Injuries Sustained while in the State if You are Injured during an Assault or Robbery.
What are the laws pertaining to the Delaware river. I am licenced to carry in Pennsylvania and am in my boat on the river that devides the states. Is it legal to carry as long as I don’t step on land on Jersey side?
I used to live in New Jersey. Just don’t do it. The military member who was arrested for having a firearm in his RV had called the state police and followed their instructions. They were watching for him and arrested him.
I worked nights cleaning offices, one in Camden across from Lady of Lourdes Hospital. We often heard shots when walking through the parking lot. In Trenton, the state capitol, there are areas where delivery drivers, even ambulances won’t go without a police escort.
How did the gun laws happen? Decades of Democrat rule. What they did to New Jersey they will do to the rest of the country if they can just get one law… then another… then another… until only the criminals have guns and good honest people go to jail.
ALLAN GARDNER a great reference guide found online from the Office of General Counsel at the FL Dept of Law Enforcement published Feb 2015 entitled HR 218 LEOSA and S. 1132 LEOSA Improvements Act of 2010 and 2014 NDAA Public Law 112-239 (HR4310) SUMMARY AND OVERVIEW. This guide goes into detail and may help address your concerns.
I have same question of Mr. Gadner about Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act retired LEO it is cover State of NJ
Keep in mind a BB / pellet gun and black power firearm are treated as regular firearms in NJ. All the same rules apply for purchase and transport. I “voted with my feet” and moved out of there in 1991 but continued to work there until retirement many years later. Friends and family still live there.
They should chop the state off and let float out in the ocean so they can be as isolated from reality as possible. NJ sucks!
I have no desire to go to NJ, ever, but thanks for the warning.
@Tom: Usually the river boundary between states is the “thread of the channel”, i.e. the deepest point of the river bed – thus the last to run dry.
In the case of the Delaware/New Jersey border it’s a little different: north of 39.30, the border is supposed to be the east bank of the Delaware river. South of that, it’s the west bank.
Also, according to Google maps there are a couple bits of land on the east of the river that are in Delaware.
This is why I avoid NJ and will not buy a Henry Rifle made in NJ. Their loss.
it is truly amazing that New Jersey is so backward when it comes to the second amendment. What is wrong with this state? I’m not going to go there .
The bridges between PA & NJ at Frenchtown and Milford actually have it marked where the center of the bridge is, designating where NJ starts & PA ends. Technically, NJ waterways cops could arrest you if you are on the NJ half of the river… NJ is in clear violation of our rights and needs their stuff challenged and thrown back in their face! How about the legislators get a mandatory minimum 3-1/2 year sentence for taking away the rights of legal, law abiding citizens?!
Do NJ state lawmakes have there communist manifesto available on line for review?
I recently became an over the road truck driver and I carry from Florida, what are my options in this situation!
Since the 2nd Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights, N.J. has also taken it upon themselves to re-define the 1st Amendment. Any one in the media: newscaster, journalist, reporter, etc. even passing through N.J. can and will be arrested on sight !!!
Obviously, tongue in cheek. I always thought that the 10 Amendments to the Constitution applies equally to ALL the states. Our Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves !!!!!