{"id":5156,"date":"2010-10-03T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/10\/03\/500-annual-fee-for-concealed-carry\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:03","slug":"500-annual-fee-for-concealed-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5156","title":{"rendered":"$500 Annual Fee for Concealed Carry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18885,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nj.com\\\/news\\\/index.ssf\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/nj_senator_pushes_law_allowing.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18886,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.njleg.state.nj.us\\\/2010\\\/Bills\\\/S2500\\\/2264_I1.PDF&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210514061358\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.njleg.state.nj.us\\\/2010\\\/Bills\\\/S2500\\\/2264_I1.PDF&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 02:21:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 06:18:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 10:26:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-08 10:22:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-21 01:30:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-21 01:30:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5745,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/cemeterysgunblob.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.murphyslawirishpub.com\\\/drinkmenu&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/09\/nj_senator_pushes_law_allowing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NJ State Senator Jeff Van Drew (D-Cape May) has proposed a bill<\/a> &#8220;to make it easier for New Jersey residents to carry handguns, and he thinks the state can make some money in the process.&#8221; Currently, you must show &#8220;justifiable need&#8221; to get a concealed carry permit in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.njleg.state.nj.us\/2010\/Bills\/S2500\/2264_I1.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the details of his bill<\/a>, an applicant would have to pass a criminal background check including fingerprinting, take a NJ Police Training Commission approved course in the safe use, storage, and maintenance of a firearm, take a marksmanship qualification test, take another State Police Superintendent approved class on the lawful use of force and justifiable use of a firearm, and then <b>pay an annual fee of $500 for the privilege of carrying concealed<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>For this deviation from the party line, Van Drew has been accused by Bryan Miller, the Executive Director of NJ Ceasefire of&nbsp; &#8220;kowtowing to the pro-gun forces of darkness who want to turn this country into an armed society&#8221;. I love that phrase &#8211; pro-gun forces of darkness. I can just see the T-shirts now.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article at NJ.com, this bill has only a long-shot for passage. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what galls me more &#8211; the $500 annual fee so a bankrupt state can meet its pension obligations or that the proponent of a concealed carry bill with incredibly onerous requirements and fees can be thought to be &#8220;kowtowing to the pro-gun forces of darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kowtow.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"251\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">A proper Kowtow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kowtow.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nH\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/cemeterysgunblob.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cemetary&#8217;s Gun Blob<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJ State Senator Jeff Van Drew (D-Cape May) has proposed a bill &#8220;to make it easier for New Jersey&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,420],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-carry","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}