{"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":"

NJ State Senator Jeff Van Drew (D-Cape May) has proposed a bill<\/a> “to make it easier for New Jersey residents to carry handguns, and he thinks the state can make some money in the process.” Currently, you must show “justifiable need” to get a concealed carry permit in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

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 pay an annual fee of $500 for the privilege of carrying concealed<\/b>.<\/p>\n

For this deviation from the party line, Van Drew has been accused by Bryan Miller, the Executive Director of NJ Ceasefire of  “kowtowing to the pro-gun forces of darkness who want to turn this country into an armed society”. I love that phrase – pro-gun forces of darkness. I can just see the T-shirts now.<\/p>\n

According to the article at NJ.com, this bill has only a long-shot for passage. <\/p>\n

I’m not sure what galls me more – 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 “kowtowing to the pro-gun forces of darkness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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A proper Kowtow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nH\/T Cemetary’s Gun Blob<\/a><\/p>\n

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