New Bill in New Jersey to ban under 21 year olds from buying rifle or shotgun

[bushmaster1313]

Looks like New Jersey lawmakers are poised to push through a ban on 18-21 year olds buying rifles or shotguns. I see nothing to stop this from being passed and signed into law.

Link to article

The next push will be semi-auto rifles with detachable magazines. I am surprised that the legislature did not immediately enact a copy of the New York SAFE Act. I can only think that they are taking extra time to draft a Bill with no grandfathering.

 

[mauser9]

Not surprising from anti N.J.

 

[Watchdog]

Looks like New Jersey lawmakers are poised to push through a ban on 18-21 year olds buying rifles or shotguns. I see nothing to stop this from being passed and signed into law.

The bill was introduced on April 5, 2018. Interested forum members may read the complete text of the bill by clicking here.

There are exemptions to this proposed bill. Quoting from an article on NJ.com:

"Anyone under 21 who already has an ID to purchase firearms in the state by the time the measure takes effect would be exempt.

So would anyone serving in the military or in law enforcement.

People under 21 would still be able to possess -- but not buy -- a handgun, rifle or shotgun if they are in the presence of a father, mother, legal guardian, or someone who holds a handgun permit or firearm purchaser ID.

The same goes if they use the guns for competition, target practice, instruction, training, or for hunting during the designated hunting season, as long as they have a valid hunting license."

The next push will be semi-auto rifles with detachable magazines.

How do you know this?

I can only think that they are taking extra time to draft a Bill with no grandfathering.

What's the point in speculating about what the New Jersey legislature may or may not do in the near or distant future? All speculating accomplishes at this point is to make paranoid people more paranoid, more fearful. It feeds right into the whole what-are-they-gonna-do-to-us-next syndrome.

 

[bushmaster1313]

^^^ You are correct that there is no point in speculating and the proper purpose of this forum is to inform about what is happening.

 

[paulh]

Read this AM that a local township here is going to ban all gun sales within 1000 feet of "sensitive" locations