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NICS check on repair

njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
Went to the range in PA this morning to exercise some of the iron in my safe and heard something really weird!

Fellow next to me, (also from NJ) told me that he took his rifle into a gunsmith in NJ for repair and when he went to pick it up, the gunsmith told him that as of last year, the law requires him to do a NICS check before he could return the guys own gun to him!!!! He then proceeded to charge him the 15.00 fee.

Anybody ever hear of this law???? Is it only in NJ?

Charlie

"It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Some states require the check in all gun Transactions,

    Here in Florida, if you PAWN a gun, to get it back you have to do the instant call in.

    "A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
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  • EOD GuyEOD Guy Member Posts: 931 ✭
    edited November -1
    It's not Federal law. I don't know about NJ State law.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is the beauty of living in Iowa. Absolutely no NICS checks on ANY gun if you have a permit to purchase handguns.
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  • paboogerpabooger Member Posts: 13,953
    edited November -1
    Load up the Hudson and move to Pa! We would love to have you!!!
    Pabooger
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    You mean move back to PA. I was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre. My family secretly moved to NJ after I graduated high school and joined the army (our's, haha). They wouldn't tell me where they were when I got discharged, but I found them and moved in with them anyway, lol.

    BTW, Mrs njretcop and I will be traveling West on Rt 78 through the lovely State of Pennsylvania next week on our way to Nashville, TN. If you see a couple of old folks broken down along side the road in a 1941 Hudson, please stop and lend a hand.....

    Charlie the near orphan

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com

    Edited by - njretcop on 09/05/2002 17:12:43
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  • paboogerpabooger Member Posts: 13,953
    edited November -1
    Must have been when you were young and foolish, why else would you leave Pa and move to NJ?
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  • BoomerangBoomerang Member Posts: 4,513
    edited November -1
    That makes no sense, you are no transferring the gun. This is real *. If this is a new NJ law, it may be unconstitutional. Does this mean you have to buy new tags when you get your car worked on?

    Boomer

    "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as it is by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."NRA Life Member
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When Ed Rendell becomes the next PA governor a NICS check for getting your gun back from repair will be law as well as an ammo tax, mag restrictions, and ugly gun ban like Kalifornia. We will all be leaving PA then.

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • jaymjaym Member Posts: 120 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had the same thing happen to me in Indiana. It didn't seem right at the time. It seems strange to me that you have to pass a background check AGAIN to get back your property. idsman 75, you said Iowa, right? Time to start looking for a new job...
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Charlie-Where did you go shooting in Pennsylvania?

    "Sometimes the people have to give up some individual rights for the safety of society."
    -Bill Clinton(MTV interview)
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gunpaq- Have you seen the Rendell commercial, where Ed is in some Western PA town, and he is shaking hands with all the locals, one of which is wearing a camo jacket. "See sportsmen, you got nothing to worry about from me-I aint gonna take your deer rifles away"
    I do not think Ed has too much to worry about from the "gun people" of Pennsylvania. A lot of them do not vote, and a lot of them are going to vote for Ed.

    "Sometimes the people have to give up some individual rights for the safety of society."
    -Bill Clinton(MTV interview)
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    Sal buddy, I'm a member of the Easton Fish and Game club. No place to shoot high powered rifles in NJ......o, except one club which won't have people like me as a member, lol. (Cenral NJ Rifle and Pistol club)

    Charlie

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought you might have gone to the club I belong to, BUCKS COUNTY FISH AND GAME. We get a lot of fellas from the other side of the river.

    "Sometimes the people have to give up some individual rights for the safety of society."
    -Bill Clinton(MTV interview)
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  • MFIMFI Member Posts: 7,899 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Im about 50 miles north of Scranton on the NY/PA border. There is no law for us to call NICS on repair guns here in NY. It is federal law though now that if we have a gun on consignment for a guy and he then wants it back to sell himself then he must be called into NICS for his own property. Not on repaired guns though.

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  • MFIMFI Member Posts: 7,899 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Im about 50 miles north of Scranton on the NY/PA border. There is no law for us to call NICS on repair guns here in NY. It is federal law though now that if we have a gun on consignment for a guy and he then wants it back to sell himself then he must be called into NICS for his own property. Not on repaired guns though.

    MARINO FIREARMS INC.
    607-637-3573
    NY STATE
    "Over 300 guns in stock ready to rock n roll "
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  • lokdok1lokdok1 Member Posts: 383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Didja go to Coughlin HS?
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  • S&W ManS&W Man Member Posts: 208 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jaym - If someone did that to you in Indiana, he took you. Indiana DOES NOT require a check to pick up a firearm you have had in for repair. You were checked when you got it.

    The second admendment GUARANTEES the other nine and the Constitution!
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    lokdok1, yes I did. I graduated from Coughlin HS in June 1956. Write to me at my email address, OK?

    Charlie

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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