rocsteady
03-12-13, 15:53
I was getting a little confused with the inconsistent answers about traveling through enemy territory, in this case NJ, so I used some of our agency contacts to speak to people on a personal, rather than professional level.
Short version, I talked to BATFE guys working with NJ State Police to find out if one can take a personally owned (not government issue) AR that is not NJ ban compliant into NJ to make use of the public range next to where we normally qualify for work at Ft. Dix.
In a word, and what I expected, "No". I guess it's pretty well known at this point that NJ resident LEO's personally owned weapons have to be ban compliant so it would stand to reason that they wouldn't let someone from another state have it any easier.
I also wanted to know for sure about traveling through NJ to PA. Again I got the answer I was expecting, "Yes you can travel from a place where you own it legally to a place where you can own it legally if it's properly secured while passing through". However, he did say that not all police officers seem to be sure how that law works (?) and that there have been problems recently. So he more or less gave me the letter of the law but labeled it with a warning that "stuff can happen". He was pretty sure that most troopers would act appropriately, but wasn't as confident about others.
So the end result is that we'll be tempting fate if we decide to drive through Jersey to go anywhere in PA.
Obviously I'm not the only one having a hard time believing that it's come to this in America. I would have never dreamed that it would get this bad during my lifetime.
Short version, I talked to BATFE guys working with NJ State Police to find out if one can take a personally owned (not government issue) AR that is not NJ ban compliant into NJ to make use of the public range next to where we normally qualify for work at Ft. Dix.
In a word, and what I expected, "No". I guess it's pretty well known at this point that NJ resident LEO's personally owned weapons have to be ban compliant so it would stand to reason that they wouldn't let someone from another state have it any easier.
I also wanted to know for sure about traveling through NJ to PA. Again I got the answer I was expecting, "Yes you can travel from a place where you own it legally to a place where you can own it legally if it's properly secured while passing through". However, he did say that not all police officers seem to be sure how that law works (?) and that there have been problems recently. So he more or less gave me the letter of the law but labeled it with a warning that "stuff can happen". He was pretty sure that most troopers would act appropriately, but wasn't as confident about others.
So the end result is that we'll be tempting fate if we decide to drive through Jersey to go anywhere in PA.
Obviously I'm not the only one having a hard time believing that it's come to this in America. I would have never dreamed that it would get this bad during my lifetime.