New Jersey Permit to Carry

[US RIFLE M1A]

It is possible to get a New Jersey Permit to Carry a Handgun. No special credentials needed other than being a law-abiding citizen.

No distinction between resident and non-resident. Non-residents apply at the non-toll-road state police station nearest to them.

Qualification is at a private range, I used RTSP in Randolph. Qualification took and hour, and was not difficult, but fair and straightforward.

Four references, fingerprints through Identigo, mental health records check and a two-page application. $200 money order.

Drop-off app in person, pick up permit in person.

Two and a half month wait. Good for 2 years and the process begins again. Best part is there was never a sense of push back you get at NYPD or Suffolk (NY) both of which I have had NY licenses through, and both were much less pleasant than the NJ experience. NJ Troopers were friendly and supportive.

You have to have a NJ FID card first, mainly so you can go to the range with your own handgun. Transport rules are very strict the first time (locked box/trunk/no stops, etc), because you will not have a Permit yet. The second and subsequent qualifications, you can carry to the range and stay at a hotel nearby without legal worries if you wish.

Picked my permit up last week.

 

[VietnamEraVet]

Good to know, but having to go through all of that bullshit EVERY 2 YEARS???

Meh, - I will just avoid NJ all together.

 

[US RIFLE M1A]

Good to know, but having to go through all of that bullshit EVERY 2 YEARS???

Meh, - I will just avoid NJ all together.

I currently have 10 licenses in my wallet, so every year one or two are up for renewal. This will just be one more every other year.

Besides, I am in my early 60s, so the number of times I will renew the license in my lifetime will not be as many as a younger man.

Next stop, Massachusetts. I miss walking around Boston.



NOTE: CO and OR have unlicensed open carry. IL has loaded car carry. SC should go Constitutional Carry eventually.

Massachusetts is my next stop.

That leaves only the states of MD and CA, and the cities of DC and NYC, none of which I am interested in ever visiting again.

 

[M_F]

The one thing you should know about Colorado is that open carry is banned in the city of Denver, so unless you have a resident permit from a reciprocal state you cannot carry in Denver. The democrats in the state legislature also repealed their preemption law, so you’re going to have a couple of blue cities with laws stricter than the rest of the state. Maryland, D.C, and NYC are obtainable if you jump through all their hoops but I don’t blame you for wanting to avoid that headache, especially if you have no intention of visiting.

 

[dwa12479]

No Infringement there.

 

[Saltwater60]

I have no need to go to NJ and try my best to never step foot there. Good information to know but not on my list.

 

[Robin]

" NJ Troopers were friendly and supportive."
I don't believe that for a second.
Robin

 

[Jsmegs77]

" NJ Troopers were friendly and supportive."
I don't believe that for a second.
Robin

Likely a more rural area. Lots of decent folk in the less urbanized areas, similar to NY. Especially so when you get down to south and central farmland areas.

 

[US RIFLE M1A]

Likely a more rural area. Lots of decent folk in the less urbanized areas, similar to NY. Especially so when you get down to south and central farmland areas.

Sussex County NJ, northwest corner of the state. Upscale suburban and wooded.

I also now have a West Virginia LTC that I applied for a month ago, picked it up this past weekend.

Requires two trips to Jefferson County, turned the second trip into a mini-vacation to Harpers Ferry.



Green are Licenses to Carry, blue is reciprocity and/or Constitutional carry

 

[Grimscale]

Green are Licenses to Carry,

Thought AZ was Constitutional Carry now?

Edit: And I thought NM was another "fuck you" state, like NY.

 

[US RIFLE M1A]

Thought AZ was Constitutional Carry now?

Edit: And I thought NM was another "fuck you" state, like NY.

Arizona is Constitutional carry, as are several of the other states that issue non-resident licenses.

That would include ME, NH, WV, FL, AZ and UT.

However, each of these licenses in Constitutional carry states have reciprocity with some other states, and some arrangements are fairly unique, such as WV providing coverage in Minnesota, UT giving you Washington state, and several others giving you Delaware.

Florida and Arizona have reciprocity with New Mexico.

Maine has limited Constitutional carry, many of the parks are off-limits unless you have the license.

I prefer to have the actual license rather than rely on either reciprocity or Constitutional carry, and these (the states in green) happen also to be the states to which I travel most often.

I would rather have a license with the name of the state I am in printed in bold letters across the top, for instance COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA LICENSE TO CARRY rather than explaining to an officer that his state in fact does accept a carry license from a state 1,500 miles away.