More Garden State Manure?

[GGReporter]

Politicians in New Jersey are once again pushing a one-gun-a-month scheme. But it's already hard to get one-gun-a-year in that state!

The New Jersey Assembly recently passed a bill that would bar anyone in the state from buying more than one handgun in a month.

But the fact is, even without this law, if you want to buy a handgun in New Jersey, you'll have to jump through three to six months' worth of hoops as it is.

First, you've got to get a Firearms ID card. Then, you have to get a Pistol Purchasing Permit.

The Pistol Purchasing Permit is only good for 90 days, and it only entitles you to purchase one handgun.

If you don't use the permit before it expires, then you've got to start all over again.

You've got to be fingerprinted by your local police department, then your fingerprints are sent to the state police in Trenton and the FBI in Washington.

Then you've got to pass a background check.

Then you've got to supply the names and addresses of two personal references who get sent a ten-part questionnaire about your "stability" and fitness to own a firearm.

If you're a first-time applicant for a firearms ID card and pistol permit, you can count on it costing you roughly $75 and taking anywhere from six weeks to a year, depending on where you live.

Now, I'll admit I don't hang out with Tony Soprano. But it seems to me that not too many criminals are going to line up at the police station to give their fingerprints, apply for background checks, pay $75 and then wait six months to a year to buy a gun.

So Jersey's whole "one-gun-a-month" scheme is just another anti-gun gimmick.

And as far as fighting crime-well, you might as well just FUHGETABOUTIT.

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