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NJ Collector guns couldn't be sold
Josey1
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Collector guns couldn't be soldThere has recently been controversy over whether pepper spray is banned under the proposed "smart gun" bills pending in the state Legislature. As an attorney who concentrates his law practice in area of firearm and weapon law, I agree that pepper spray is not banned under the proposals.The proposed bills do not affect the exemptions allowing law-abiding citizens to carry less than three-fourths of an ounce of self-defense sprays. However, it is easy to see how such a mistake could be made because the definition of "firearm" under state law does include "device or instrument from which may be fired any gas, vapor or other noxious thing."It is difficult for the public to get honest information about what effect any given legislation may have, particularly gun control legislation. The "smart gun" bills as proposed will ban licensed gun dealers from selling hundreds of bona-fide collector guns that the federal government officially recognizes as "curios and relic"' and licenses collectors to acquire these guns.Some of the most interesting federally recognized collector handguns that licensed dealers will be banned from selling in New Jersey once the proposed smart gun requirements are implemented include Charles A. Lindbergh's Colt Detective Special revolver and Ernest Hemingway's Colt Match Target Woodsman Semiautomatic Pistol.The exception in the proposed bill for "antique handguns" only applies to pre-1898 guns. The proposed legislation needs to be amended so that existing handguns without "smart gun" technology as part of their "original manufacture" can still be sold in New Jersey by licensed dealers. To do otherwise is wrong, and at minimum an insult to Lindbergh and Hemingway. http://app.com/app2001/story/0,21133,513202,00.html