Reply #30: There are people who buy gun collections... [View All]

and just before I retired, I sold five handguns to a co-worker and friend. He had a concealed carry permit and was interested in increasing his firearm collection at the same time I was interested in decreasing mine. (He was much younger than I am and I predict by the time he reaches my age, his firearm collection will be quite extensive.)

I haven't taken the time to see if the New Jersey law affects private sales. It's possible that my friend could still have bought the five firearms from me under the new law. Since my friend tended to shoot the handguns he bought and none of the firearms I sold were unusual or extremely valuable, I'm not sure that the sale would have qualified under the collector exemption.

And no, "honest citizens" are not gun traffickers. Nor are bank robbers or cat burglars "honest citizens". I define an honest citizen as a person who obeys the law. A gun trafficker is a person who willingly purchases weapons to resell them to another individual knowing that they will be sold on the black market.

Twenty years or thirty years in prison sounds about right for such a crime.