Posted on 08/19/2014 8:55:28 AM PDT by rktman
This question is being posed after a large amount of weapons were found in domestic dispute case in Saddle Brook. A man was stabbed by his wife, and she was charged. The police found the husband’s gun collection and confiscated it in accordance with protocol. He may be charged for the massive amount of gunpowder in his possession.
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What “protocol” was followed? The man was stabbed, yet he is the one punished. She gets charged, yet he is deprived of his liberty. IIFC, he will be charged with a felony and thus ineligible to own guns.
Welcome to Acirema, where the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.
It always amazes me when the media reports that someone had an “arsenal” of ammunition for possessing about the amount I use in a typical afternoon at the shooting range.
Given the price gouging and general lack of availability, it makes sense to have a lot of ammo around. Having less than a year’s supply, at your normal rate of consumption for practice and plinking, is not nearly enough.
B.L.O.A.T.
And the First Amendment should limit the number of words you can use in a sentence to .......
Damnit!
In the Socialist States of the NE the law does not matter.
“The Second Amendment has no limits n firepower”-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.”
21:1A-133. Permits for manufacture, sale, storage, transportation or use of explosives
http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/lsse/laws/Explosives_Law.html#1a133
(e) To use
A. No permit shall be required for the storage, transportation or use of smokeless powder which is used by private persons for the hand loading of small arms ammunition and which is not for resale. For this purpose not more than 36 lbs. of smokeless powder and not more than 5 pounds of black powder shall be stored or transported without a permit.
I expect that will be coming.
“The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower”-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.”
There should be a limit on how many rounds of golf and vacations taxpayers have to pay for.
Sure, let’s cap it at two billion rounds.
Has anybody ever expended more than a couple hundred rounds in any mass shooting?
Given that, how is ten thousand rounds any more of a threat than two hundred?
Even if the owner went completely nuts, if he had ten thousand rounds it only means there would be 9,800 rounds left after he was dead and it was all over.
I seriously doubt it was black gunpowder.
Smokeless powder yes. Pyrodex or equivalent maybe.
There are probably local fire department codes or state laws that are tougher than federal levels. Varies a lot by jurisdiction, and can be very difficult to find an answer to.
There are probably local fire department codes or local laws that are tougher than state and federal levels. Varies a lot by jurisdiction, and can be very difficult to find an answer to.
I corrected my answer.
I don’t know if there is a limit to the amount of ammunition one can possess in New Jersey, but I know there are fire codes adopted by most municipalities limiting the amount of highly combustible materials one can store in the home like smokeless powder, primers, etc. and regulations on how they must be stored. Most metallic cartridge reloaders I know are probably in violation of these rules.
Since this is New Jersey, I figure this guy has a couple handguns, a handfull of rifles and shotguns and a case of ammo for each, thereby constituting in the minds of the average New Jersey official a dire threat existential threat to the entire Eastern Seaboard. Probably not a lot more than a good number of FReepers shoot off in a good month of range time.
To enforce a limit, they have to track it.
Sorry. Not acceptable.
bttt!
I think it is fair to point out that you should never invite the authorities into your house if it can be avoided at all.
Was it unreasonable for them to use the jaws of life on two gun safes?
I bet you they are bummed they didn’t find a mary jane plant so they could seize the house.
I’ll rephrase the question: “Should crashingly ignorant people in the government be given the power to regulate yet another thing they don’t understand?” No.
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