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Below is copied from the NJSP website. Plain and simple if you have a trunk, you can have gun and ammo in unlocked containers. If you have an SUV, they must be locked.

 

I own a pick-up truck and the wife has an SUV. When I transport, normally lock the guns in one container and the ammo in another container.

 

 

Shall be carried unloaded and contained in a closed and fastened case, gunbox, securely tied package, or locked in the trunk of the automobile in which it is being transported, and in the course of travel, shall include only such deviations as are reasonably necessary under the circumstances.

 

The firearm should not be directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle. If the vehicle does not have a compartment separate from the passenger compartment, the firearm and ammunition must be in a locked container other than the vehicle's glove compartment or console.

 

For additional exemptions refer to Chapter 39, namely 2C:39-6g.

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^^^What this really means is if you have a sedan with a trunk, you can throw 100 unloaded hand guns into the trunk, no trigger locks, NO gun cases, NO bags, NO gun rugs, NUTHIN'--just piled on top of each other and scratchin' each other to hell and then slam the car's trunk lid closed--AND THEY ARE SECURED!  And all that's required to move them into an exempted location is brown paper and bakery string....

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Below is copied from the NJSP website. Plain and simple if you have a trunk, you can have gun and ammo in unlocked containers. If you have an SUV, they must be locked.

 

I own a pick-up truck and the wife has an SUV. When I transport, normally lock the guns in one container and the ammo in another container.

 

 

Shall be carried unloaded and contained in a closed and fastened case, gunbox, securely tied package, or locked in the trunk of the automobile in which it is being transported, and in the course of travel, shall include only such deviations as are reasonably necessary under the circumstances.

 

The firearm should not be directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle. If the vehicle does not have a compartment separate from the passenger compartment, the firearm and ammunition must be in a locked container other than the vehicle's glove compartment or console.

 

For additional exemptions refer to Chapter 39, namely 2C:39-6g.

 

 

why do people continue to post that garbage and not read the actual law.. 

show me the portion of the law that states it must be LOCKED...

 

 

 

g. All weapons being transported under paragraph (2) of subsection b.,

subsection e., or paragraph (1) or (3) of subsection f. of this section shall be carried

unloaded and contained in a closed and fastened case, gunbox, securely tied package,

or locked in the trunk of the automobile in which it is being transported, and in the

course of travel shall include only such deviations as are reasonably necessary under

the circumstances.

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I'm someone that will admit when they are incorrect. While reading the section i quoted, it does mention "locked" container, but that section is not the law. It is from the NJSP website regarding firearm transportation.

 

The law does mention "locked" meaning the trunk, but not the container containing the guns. The section I originally quoted was from the NJSP It appears they are suggesting it is the way to transport firearms in NJ   

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FWIW and "Not for Nuthin'", I go WAY back to a more simpler time.  Approx. ten short years ago the NJSP published a blue quad-fold brochure with all sorts of (verbatim) printed laws on it.  They stood in full uniform at a booth in Raritan Center's annual Outdoor Show (held every January) handing-out these brochures, on which was printed, and I'm paraphrasing, "None of this information is to be considered legal and binding, and is therefore up to the interpretation of the County District Attorneys".  SOOOOOOOOOOO, not even the NJSP can hand-out printed literature with the EXACT LAWS spelled-out in chapter and verse and have said brochure (handed-out to the public-at-large in an attempt to educate and keep firearms owners legal and out of jail) actually be held accountable.  So if we can't trust what THEY print and distribute, how can we trust what they tell us over the phone??????????

 

Just sayin'............

 

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By the way when you get your FPID card from the police in Jersey City, they give you a piece of paper telling you how to transport your firearms legally, and it says you are obligated to put trigger locks on them when you are transporting.

 

So there's another "requirement" that is clear as day and police think there is and isn't anywhere in the law.

 

If you took a poll of the police, how many of them would know the actual legal requirements for transport?  The Jersey City police probably are pretty certain about trigger locks.  Beware!

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this is why things continue to be so hard in NJ....

 

THE LAW SAYS DO IT A CERTAIN WAY

 

it doesnt matter what I think.. what Nappen thinks.. what the state police think.. or what some rookie class II thinks...

at the end of the day all that matters is the LITERAL law..  that is what you NEED to follow...

 

and if YOU choose to not follow the literal law.. and you decide you want to have some bizarre practice that is beyond the law.. because you somehow think that it makes you safer.. 

KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

 

when you share it as being fact you just confuse people... there is a TON of the following that goes on in NJ... I hear it online.. at ranges.. at gun shops... 

"the way you do this is to do it like that.. that's the way I was told by so and so"

 

unless the statement includes the LITERAL law, then what you heard to do.. what you choose to do.. is MOOT and irrelevant..  because it is not the LAW... 

 

NJ gun law is "so confusing" because so many people dont bother to actually read it.. 

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By the way when you get your FPID card from the police in Jersey City, they give you a piece of paper telling you how to transport your firearms legally, and it says you are obligated to put trigger locks on them when you are transporting.

 

So there's another "requirement" that is clear as day and police think there is and isn't anywhere in the law.

 

If you took a poll of the police, how many of them would know the actual legal requirements for transport?  The Jersey City police probably are pretty certain about trigger locks.  Beware!

 

 

as a lawful gun owner.. you should correct them... let them know they are wrong... and if they are still confused about it, contact the NJSP.. 

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By the way when you get your FPID card from the police in Jersey City, they give you a piece of paper telling you how to transport your firearms legally, and it says you are obligated to put trigger locks on them when you are transporting.

 

So there's another "requirement" that is clear as day and police think there is and isn't anywhere in the law.

 

If you took a poll of the police, how many of them would know the actual legal requirements for transport? The Jersey City police probably are pretty certain about trigger locks. Beware!

That's another reason to never go to Jersey City with my guns. Personally I do not put any trigger locks on my guns, I put them in their cases (which are not locked), ammo in separate container, throw it all in the back of my car (hatchback). As far as I can tell I am following the letter of the law...

 

 

 

 

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Things are hard in New Jersey because of the law itself, not because people try to keep from being ensnared in the law.

 

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things are WORSE in NJ than they actually NEED to be because law abiding gun owners allow erroneous information to exist as fact... 

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Unfortunately that is not human nature. People around the world spend all of their lives getting things wrong and misunderstanding things. You can get angry and argue with everyone and be arrogant about it but it doesn't change it. Do you argue with everyone you meet?

 

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