In , Ernie Willson wrote
in part:

Don Klipstein wrote:
In , Ernie Willson wrote:
(I edit for space)
In fact here in the police state of NJ shooting an air
gun is legally classified as discharging a firearm...go figure.

Use of an air gun is legally classified as use of a firearm?

Does that mean it is legal to use an air gun where it is legal to use
a "real gun" in NJ? And illegal to use an air gun in place of a "real
gun" to be used illegally?

Does this only mean that use of an air gun to commit a crime makes the
crime a "gun crime", or is it worse?

Meanwhile, it appears to me that in at least most of the 50 States
shooting of varmints and for that matter "plinking" with "real guns" is
not prohibited nor badly regulated by state law. And it appears to me
that prohibitions on discharging firearms in general are municipal laws
and not state ones.

- Don Klipstein )

In the state of New jersey, air guns, BB guns and CO2 guns are legally
classified as firearms and all the rules for firearms pertain to them.

If you use a BB gun (or pellet gun etc.) in the commission of a crime
and you are subject to the same penalty as if you had used a "real" gun.

Also FYI, slingshots are illegal here.

I didn't write the laws, I just live with them.

I have seen a person dragged into court for illegally carrying a
firearm, when he had an unloaded Daisy Red Rider BB gun in his trunk.

I tried a few seconds with Google, and that appears to me to be a "long
gun" resembling a rifle. New Jersey has a law against carrying even so
much as an unloaded .30-06 in the trunk of a car?

Although I am aware of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law...ates_(by_state)

saying that New Jersey gun owners are required to get a purchase permit
(good for life) to purchase handguns, rifles or shotguns.

I strongly suggest that people should never drive through this state
with a firearm (as defined by NJ) in their car, or on their your person.

- Don Klipstein )