Ed Another NJ smart gun bill.

[Ranb]

http://news.yahoo.com/smart-gun-law-passes-n-j-assembly-awaits-233057732.html

I'm at work right now and for some reason the shipyard firewall blocks the NJ legislature's websites. Weird. Until I can find the text of the bill I don't have any idea what it actually requires.

The law is intended to weaken earlier legislation, passed in 2002, that required retailers to sell only smart guns three years after they reached the market.

This part is good, it should remove a hurdle for getting smart gun tech onto the market.

The bill would require so-called smart guns to be sold alongside traditional firearms no more than three years after the technology is developed and on the market.

I wonder how this will happen? Possibly require FFL's in the state agree to stock smart guns in order to obtain the license?

In the end it seems that the NJ legislatures still don't have a clue how to encourage use of smart gun tech. When it is good enough, require the police and military in the state to use it. Nothing sells like firearms used by the military.

Ranb

 

[Ziggurat]

When it is good enough, require the police and military in the state to use it. Nothing sells like firearms used by the military.

I cannot imagine that the NJ legislature can require the military to use smart weapons within the state.

 

[Ladewig]

I had no idea what smart guns are so I did a bit of googling. I am surprised there are so many different types. I was impressed that some smart guns have a switch that can turn off the smart-locking system.

 

[Ranb]

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bills/BillsByNumber.asp
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2014/Bills/A5000/4717_I1.HTM

This is added;

c. Following the preparation and delivery of the list pursuant to subsection a. of this section, each firearms wholesale or retail dealer operating in this State shall maintain an inventory of one or more types of approved personalized handguns on the dealer’s premises. The personalized handguns shall be displayed in the dealer’s salesroom and offered for sale to the general public.

This part would be repealed;

C.2C:58-2.5 Sale of personalized handguns, inapplicability.

4. a. On and after the first day of the sixth month following the preparation and delivery of the list of personalized handguns which may be sold in the State pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2002, c.130 (C.2C:58-2.4), no person registered or licensed by the superintendent as a manufacturer, wholesale dealer of firearms, retail dealer of firearms or agent or employee of a wholesale or retail dealer of firearms pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.2C:58-1 or N.J.S.2C:58-2 shall transport into this State, sell, expose for sale, possess with the intent of selling, assign or otherwise transfer any handgun unless it is a personalized handgun or an antique handgun.

At least this would make better progress towards introducing smart guns to the public instead of the abortion they passed years ago.

I cannot imagine that the NJ legislature can require the military to use smart weapons within the state.

I was thinking of the NJ National Guard, but I guess it might be the feds who supply the firearms to them.

Ranb

 

[Ranb]

Christie vetoed the bill. This is strange.

It passed the legislature, but Christie — a GOP presidential contender — didn't sign the bill, effectively giving it a pocket veto.

Weinberg was clearly puzzled by the governor's action [or lack thereof], telling a Star-Ledger reporter that the veto is "a little mystifying because by his pocket vetoing of this legislation he keeps the current law on the books, which is much more stringent."

I wonder if the bill was part of an omnibus bill that included lots of other bills on various topics? That is how MN got silencers legal again; it was included with a large safety and funding bill. That and Governor Dayton seemed to be the only against it.

Asked to comment on leaving the law in place, Christie spokeswoman Joelle Farrell avoided the smart-gun issue. "Having the legislature pass more than 100 bills in such a hasty and scrambled way, praying for them to be rubber stamped, is never a good formula for effectively doing public business."

Ranb