Posted on Jul 20, 2014
State Gun Laws; A reminder why you must know the different laws
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/20/philly-mother-hopes-for-leniency-from-new-jersey-judge-on-gun-charges/?intcmp=latestnews
This is one example of how people need to be very aware of how different laws from state to state can vary and that you must research them before carrying weapons across state lines.
The person in question here carried her legally-registered weapon from PA to NJ, where laws are much stricter. She was pulled over for a traffic stop and declared the weapon to the Officer. She acted very responsible except for the fact that she did not research NJ laws to see if she would experience recipriprocity for her PA license and what rounds she could carry.
I am very much for everyone legally owning a weapon that wishes to do so, and I do think that some states like NY and NJ are a bit too strict on their laws (good luck if you live in NYC). However, I think cases like this demonstrate two things:
The first would be the way this case was portrayed. Originally the story stated that the offender did not realize she was in NJ and that she made a wrong turn that put her in NJ. She was in Atlantic County! This is a coastal county in NJ. she would have had to have been in NJ for well over an hour and paid tolls in NJ! I think that when you misportray the facts, you actually can harm those that are taking measures to try to change laws. This made this case very seem very fishy to me. I could not understand why they would not play up the fact that she attempted to be responsible regarding her weapon and not make it sound like some kind of accident. Misrepresenting the facts gives anti-gun advocates fuel for their fire.
The second is that laws do need to be reviewed and reformed. I genuinely feel like a person should not have to worry about how their Second Ammendment rights will be interpretted as they travel. If I were to carry a weapon legally registered in Orange County, NY as protection as I travelled (or if I were to move when I PCS), I would have to review each COUNTY I travelled through in many states, and at a minimum that state laws of each state I travelled through. That can be very tedious.
When I researched NY laws before moving here, I chose NOT to bring my POW because of how restrictive laws are here and how hard it would be to register my POW. I am not a gun nut at all. I like to shoot it a couple times a year. I rarely would carry it. It just was not worth the hassel to me to bring it here. In my mind, that is a bit of a shame. Yes, I could have taken the steps to have it here with me, but I am not someone who feels a need to have it at all times. I just feel like there needs to be a national standard that offers more opennes for gun owners.
This is one example of how people need to be very aware of how different laws from state to state can vary and that you must research them before carrying weapons across state lines.
The person in question here carried her legally-registered weapon from PA to NJ, where laws are much stricter. She was pulled over for a traffic stop and declared the weapon to the Officer. She acted very responsible except for the fact that she did not research NJ laws to see if she would experience recipriprocity for her PA license and what rounds she could carry.
I am very much for everyone legally owning a weapon that wishes to do so, and I do think that some states like NY and NJ are a bit too strict on their laws (good luck if you live in NYC). However, I think cases like this demonstrate two things:
The first would be the way this case was portrayed. Originally the story stated that the offender did not realize she was in NJ and that she made a wrong turn that put her in NJ. She was in Atlantic County! This is a coastal county in NJ. she would have had to have been in NJ for well over an hour and paid tolls in NJ! I think that when you misportray the facts, you actually can harm those that are taking measures to try to change laws. This made this case very seem very fishy to me. I could not understand why they would not play up the fact that she attempted to be responsible regarding her weapon and not make it sound like some kind of accident. Misrepresenting the facts gives anti-gun advocates fuel for their fire.
The second is that laws do need to be reviewed and reformed. I genuinely feel like a person should not have to worry about how their Second Ammendment rights will be interpretted as they travel. If I were to carry a weapon legally registered in Orange County, NY as protection as I travelled (or if I were to move when I PCS), I would have to review each COUNTY I travelled through in many states, and at a minimum that state laws of each state I travelled through. That can be very tedious.
When I researched NY laws before moving here, I chose NOT to bring my POW because of how restrictive laws are here and how hard it would be to register my POW. I am not a gun nut at all. I like to shoot it a couple times a year. I rarely would carry it. It just was not worth the hassel to me to bring it here. In my mind, that is a bit of a shame. Yes, I could have taken the steps to have it here with me, but I am not someone who feels a need to have it at all times. I just feel like there needs to be a national standard that offers more opennes for gun owners.
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Every right carries with it a responsibility and an obligation to ensure that one's exercise is IAW law and does not infringe upon another's. As a permit holder, she should have known that she needed to check the local laws before traveling there. I have no sympathy if someone fails to perform their due diligence. I disagree with gun control laws passionately but those are the rules we have to play by until something is changed.
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MA makes you jump through some hoops to own firearms too. I never bothered to get my carry permit there because it was just too expensive. And then there's the list of banned firearms....
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