Requires firearm transfer between members of immediate family be conducted through licensed retail firearm dealer.
Not law yet. Pending legislation.
Asw. Carol A. Murphy
Bill summary
Official digest is not on this card.
Now vs if chaptered
Now: immediate-family transfers are exempt from the licensed-dealer conduit. If chaptered: family transfers must go through an FFL; a kitchen-table hand-off can be pled as 2C:58-3. Confirm chaptering before advising.
Defender utility
New Jersey defenders: a family hand-off is not a dealer-bypass crime today. If this chapters, an intra-family transfer without an FFL becomes the existing 2C:58-3 unlicensed-transfer theory — demand proof of a 'transfer' and that the parties are not in a remaining exemption (LE, C&R, temporary). User-duty / private-transfer vehicle; not a current charge.
Who this is for. NJ PDs on private-transfer / family-hand-off calendars — pending FFL-conduit expansion, not present law; not a California charge.