NJ Gov signs bill requiring Smart Guns for sale @ gun stores

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NJ Gov signs bill requiring Smart Guns for sale @ gun stores

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NJ has never seen a gun control law they don't like. As a reference you can check out Evan Nappens New Jersey Gun law book at over 500 pages.

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New Jersey’s already strict firearm laws got even tougher Tuesday as Gov. Phil Murphy signed four new gun control bills into law — including one designed to make personalized “smart guns” more easily available in the state.
It requires every gun retailer in the Garden State to sell at least one smart gun.

It also creates a commission that will approve and maintain a roster of smart guns that can be sold.
The other bills Murphy signed Tuesday will:
  • * Add convictions of crimes such as carjacking or making terroristic threats to the list of crimes that ban people from buying firearms in the state (S3897).
    * Make it a third-degree crime for people who aren’t allowed to have a gun who attempt to obtain one (A4449).
    * Encourage firearm retail dealers and operators of firing ranges in the state to attend a suicide prevention course (A3896).
There are still a number of other gun control bills that haven’t reached Murphy’s desk. While the state Assembly approved them, the state Senate has not voted on them.

They include measures that would:
  • * Require firearms to locked away in a container or box in New Jersey when the gun’s owner leaves their home or premises where the gun is allowed to be stored.
    * Make it a second-degree crime in the state to act as a straw purchaser and a third-degree crime to transport, sell or possess a firearm without a federally licensed serial number.
    * Require people in the state to renew their firearm identification card every four years and show that they have completed a gun safety training course each time they renew the license. Active or retired police officers and former members of the military, however, would be exempt from the rule under the bill.
    * Require places that sell handgun ammunition in the state to track their ammunition sales and report them to the State Police. They would also be required to make sure people purchasing handgun ammunition are 21 years old, which is the legal age for buying a handgun
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That's quite the training requirement for a FOID card..
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Re: NJ Gov signs bill requiring Smart Guns for sale @ gun st

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The new law aims to close that loophole. It requires every gun retailer in the Garden State to sell at least one smart gun.
Is it really "to sell" or rather to have available for sale? And if you only have one in your inventory and someone happens to be stupid enough to buy it, are you technically out of business until you get another one in your inventory? And when it doesn't work sometimes and someone gets killed, who gets sued?
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