New Jersey bans air rifles, calls them assault weapons
Seems in NJ, if you have a Gamo air gun with a suppressor, you’re a felon in possession of an assault weapon.
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September 9th, 2013 at 9:19 pm
Minnesota, too. I don’t know of any actual prosecutions in Illinois but the airguns not classified as firearms under FOID may shoot only a .177 BB, not pellets. Red Ryder is legal.
September 9th, 2013 at 9:48 pm
Minnesota is OK for some of those (.177 only, .22 is un-legal), Michigan classifies anything with a rifled barrel as a firearm though. So that Gamo Whisper is a firearm with a silencer in MI too. You felon, you!
September 10th, 2013 at 9:24 am
So my custom CO2 powered 25 caliber air gun with the 24″ rifled barrel with integral “shroud”, ‘high capacity’ rotary mag, laser sight and folding stock would get me in serious trouble if I head north of the OH border, eh?
Reason #42 I hate Michigan.
Only other thing I hate in life is groundhogs that dig up my yard. Hence the reason for the air gun in the first place. Some legislators are plain stupid. The rest are idiots.
September 10th, 2013 at 11:54 am
I’m sorry, these guys are MORONS. If you can buy it at Academy without any kind of checks or anything, it ain’t an assault weapon. Don’t even get me started on the whole made up ‘assault weapon’ name. That’s just more mumbo-jumbo that the left tries to throw out there to sound scary.
September 10th, 2013 at 1:49 pm
I became suspicious of idiocy being endemic to NJ when I read that my Marlin Model 60 tubular magazine 22LR is considered an assault rifle in the Garden State because it can, theoretically, hold more than 10 rounds of 22Short ammo in the tube and, maybe, shoot more than once.
Let’s not go there. It is a silly place.
September 10th, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Well, speaking from experience, I was arrested right after (I don’t recall, maybe a week or two later) I turned 18 in New Jersey for possession of a firearm without a FOID. I was in the woods up on the mountain behind my house with my buddies hunting squirrels with a Crossman Pump BB Gun (which you could load as a single shot with pellets). That’s how we always hunted squirrels, so its a bit surprising to see the link mention that ” 2013 marks the first year the NJ Division of Fish And Game are allowing air rifles to be used for hunting.”
Luckily, as I’ve relayed in the past, my mom played tennis with the police chiefs wife and he took care of things. But its the point when I decided to leave Jersey.
September 10th, 2013 at 6:09 pm
New Jersey? What is that?
Never heard of that place and never intend on going there.
September 11th, 2013 at 9:05 am
This is news? Air guns firing a projectile under 3/8″ are firearms under NJ law. Silencers for firearms are illegal under NJ law. (Airsoft are not considered firearms, but display in public off a field is an unwise idea.)
That this is true doesn’t make it right, of course.
(Second parenthetical, the .50″ airgun I saw at NRAAM Pittsburgh is ×not× a firearm under NJ law. I still want one.)