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iconIf you think New Jersey is going after guns now, just wait until they start seizing property. Just what Jersey needs is a financial conflict of interest.

A New Jersey state assemblyman has introduced a bill that would allow the government to seize the home or car of anyone whose property contains an illegal firearm.

The legislation, sponsored by Assemblyman Louis Manzo, D-Jersey City, authorizes the forfeiture of "motor vehicle, building or premise" if a firearm is found in it that is not possessed legally per state law - "even if the firearm was not possessed by the owner of the motor vehicle, building or premise," states a summary of the bill, A3998. The legislation was introduced Thursday.

We already know the definition of 'illegal gun' is a moving target, especially in New Jersey. (New Jersey even classifies some .22s as "assault weapons".) But what else is sketchy is the definition of "contain". If you catch a robber who has an illegal gun, will the police come arrest the guy, and then take your house? What if the guy that steals your car has an illegal gun? Will you never get it back?

New Jersey isn't satisfied with violating just the Second Amendment, now they want to violate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments too. Four protects you against unreasonable search and seizure. Five protects you from double jeapardy and the taking of property without due process. But hey, the Bill of Rights never stopped Jersey before.


Comments

That gun that gramp left you..........
Kisss everything you own goodbye

Posted by: GrampaPinhead at May 11, 2005 12:11 PM

Hopefully some judge who knows the Fourth Amendment will shoot that ridiculous thing down, if anyone is stupid enough to pass it.

Posted by: Robert Garrard at May 11, 2005 5:08 PM

In NJ the proper form to fill out in triplicate is called the Voluntary Firearms Registration form, available from any State Police station. If you move to NJ with the guns you already own you don't have to register them, but if you don't VOLUNTARILY register them then they are illegal, and the excrement will hit the oscillator if anything ever happens. I have to get out of this state!

signed with a false name and no email in case they're watching.

Posted by: "Barney" at May 11, 2005 5:51 PM

Remember Joseph Pelleteri?

Posted by: Kevin Baker at May 11, 2005 11:28 PM

Tennessee does a similar thing with drugs and cars. Or at least they did. A friend of mine lost his car (which he wasn't in or near) to the state, because his brother was driving it around with some significant amount of drugs in it, and was caught. I don't think the brother even had permission to be using the vehicle.

Posted by: Jay Kominek at May 12, 2005 9:05 AM

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