Jersey why do you mess with me so?

[losing]

Jersey loves to mess with me. I started looking into gun ownership 10 years ago and found out we need permission slips and it takes months to get the permits to purchase guns and additional slips to purchase a handgun. Also found out there was no carry permits in Jersey, well not without knowing someone, may issue state. Fast forward to post Bruen lawsuit and Jersey has become a shall issue state, after jumping through hoops.

Expecting to wait 6 months to receive my handgun permits I put in for them. 6 months to save up extra money for my carry pistol, then another few months to save extra for the carry class/test and I can finally practice our 2a right. But Jersey went and changed things up and I received my handgun permits in 2 weeks. It's nice the state changed things towards the better, but I just wasted $30 on a permit I will not be able to use. So frustrating....

 

[simon1]

Glad I live where I do. At least things are getting better where you live.

The days of walking into a store and getting one are gone, except here...and there are reasons for that but are they really valid?

It's one of those "when I was a kid" things. Like shotguns and rifles hanging on the gun racks in the back window of pickups in the high school parking lot. Guns haven't changed...people have.

 

[Whisky]

Like shotguns and rifles hanging on the gun racks in the back window of pickups in the high school parking lot

Yep, at least half of the trucks at my HS had shotguns in the rear window opening day of Dove Season. Hunters Ed class had a live fire session and the school provided a rifle if you don’t own your own. This wasn’t even a rural HS, North Austin, Tx.

 

[OkieStubble]

Yep, at least half of the trucks at my HS had shotguns in the rear window opening day of Dove Season. Hunters Ed class had a live fire session and the school provided a rifle if you don’t own your own. This wasn’t even a rural HS, North Austin, Tx.

Austin? Times have indeed changed.

 

[Lightcs1776]

Come to NY and you will find the most aggressive unconstitutional anti-gun laws anywhere, with perhaps California as an exception. I would be happy waste $30 to find out the laws here have been changed to align with the SCOTUS decision.

 

[ChiefHA]

We even had a taxidermy class in high school and it wasn't unusual for people to bring their guns to class and clean them

 

[ctr]

Voting matters. Votes have consequences. We get the government we vote, or fail to vote for.

 

[Quaznoid]

Another reason to get out of Jersey, if you needed another reason

 

[NewYorkBuck]

Voting matters. Votes have consequences. We get the government we vote, or fail to vote for.

And sometimes even the government we didn't vote for ...

 

[Lightcs1776]

Voting matters. Votes have consequences. We get the government we vote, or fail to vote for.

I never, or at least rarely, get the government I vote for. It is one of the primary factors for planning to leave my state when I retire. I always vote, but I know that it will not change things in my state.

 

[ctr]

I never, or at least rarely, get the government I vote for. It is one of the primary factors for planning to leave my state when I retire. I always vote, but I know that it will not change things in my state.

Sad but true. My family roots in this state go back to the mid 1700's. But I will not retire here. The state is a lost cause with the influx of North Eastern and California people. They crapped in their homes, now they crap in mine.

 

[Lightcs1776]

It is sad, @ctr but reality. Fortunately, there are still people that will move while embracing what makes a state strong rather than bringing failed policies with them. I have been not only invited but encouraged to move to Georgia as the general attitude is in line with mine, or mine is in line with those in Georgia.

 

[alpster]

One of the big reasons I left NJ after 32 years. I'm in the free state of FL now. I will be teaching an NRA Basic pistol course tomorrow. I love it here!