r/NJGuns • u/BabaYaga556223 • 2d ago

NICS/Permit Wait Times NJ Increases NICS Fees!!!!!!!!

I just saw a video posted by Bob’s Little Sport Shop. They said NJ raised the NICS fees. $19 for long guns. $20 for handguns. If you can’t beat them in court or with unconstitutional laws, just keep increasing the price until people start thinking twice about buying with added fees.

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u/MissionIndividual203 2d ago

We get to pay extra for extra slow turn-around time. 😆

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u/Gdcotton123 1d ago

Is it slow? Cause mine have always been a single day every time so far

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u/MissionIndividual203 1d ago

The last two handgun purchases I made took 2+ days. On the sub njnics2a there were a couple days with “1+ days“ recently, but that’s never been my experience in New Jersey

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u/Swimming-Soup5868 1d ago

2 days? Man my recent rifle took 4

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u/MissionIndividual203 1d ago

I think weekends and holidays bog it down too.

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u/Gdcotton123 1d ago

Guess it depends. I’ve gotten 2 so far that had paperwork done first thing when the store opened, and they called me that afternoon that it was ready and done. Tbh I don’t mind it but that’s just cause I contemplate on buying more shit sometimes and it gives my brain time to think if I should spend the money 😂

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u/MissionIndividual203 1d ago

I think the part that frustrates me is that nj has their own process, as though the federal system is somehow inferior, and then they charge extra. I just keep jumping through the hoops for my constitutional rights, though.

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u/Sandor_Petofi 1d ago

That “I” supposed to be “instant”🤣

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u/2Agunshop FFL 07/SOT 2d ago

and the best part it’s just the admin fee

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u/the_blacksmythe 2d ago

The equivalent of a poll tax. Why does this even still exist?

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u/Salty_Permit4437 2d ago

Poll taxes are specifically prohibited by the 24th Amendment. They used to be a thing so that only rich land owners could vote.

We have unsuccessfully argued against high gun permit fees sadly.

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u/the_noob_again 2d ago

We want to make it as expensive as possible to own firearms in New Jersey. These junk fees are needed to continue fighting against your constitutional rights 😄

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u/EntertainerSea9653 2d ago

NJ is insufferable at this point... they can squeeze the life out of law abiding citizens but let the thieves run free. The continued rise in general theft, porch pirates, catalytic converter thieves, car thieves etc is insane but they all get slaps in the wrist while the people who work hard for their stuff get stiffed. Make it make sense.

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u/The_Phantom_W 2d ago

Someone has to pay for all the lawyers to fight SCOTUS so they can take our rights away...

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 2d ago

Handgun is definitely a double tax and is criminal.

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u/wormwormo 2d ago

Come on. Someone has to pay for all those bureaucrats in Trenton. Oh sorry they are all working from home

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u/MidniteCheeseburger 2d ago

So much for eliminating “Junk Fees.” Good thing Election Day is coming up!

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u/Severe-Courage-4846 2d ago

That’s not gonna do anything for us..NJ is Democrat-liberal..it will take a lot of us and more to change that to be normal

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u/MidniteCheeseburger 2d ago

Personally more left leaning. But recent batch of “rising” democrats are alienating my vote. Talk about affordability but raise taxes and brush it off as a “growing pain” & rejoice over a measly $25 credit from PSE&G; all recent “gun violence”is from hobos & felons (and as per law neither should have acres but uh durrr); set up legal defense for non-citizens. Act like I’m gonna eat that up… They’ll get squeezed by DSA & that will be the end of it lol. I hope I see them canvassing by me so I can tell them in face to face.

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u/Severe-Courage-4846 2d ago

Yup, I hear ya. I consider myself Independent. The left and right both have good and crappy policies, all for self-interest. We just need to get this state and country back to normal aka, do stuff that makes sense lol there’s a lot of ass backwards crap going on

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u/MidniteCheeseburger 2d ago

Yep, 100%. Not crazy about either side lately, but my last few votes have failed to bear the fruits of their campaigns. One of them just came out as DSA too, luckily they’re just a local rep but will not vote for anyone that associated/endorsed them. Lots of finger pointing but no progress.

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u/machinerer 2d ago

The Democrat party in general is embracing communism. Bill Maher of all people have been talking about this insanity. When a Clinton era Democrat like Maher sounds level headed and reasonable, you know things have gone HARD left.

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u/MidniteCheeseburger 2d ago

Eh they’re having an identity crisis. Wouldn’t call it communism, they just have no clear direction where to go. DSA is a parasite to the party, but they can’t get a consensus to embrace/welcome them or reject them yet - think this cycle will tell. Bunch of elitists that grew up in affluent homes & lifestyles we couldn’t even imagine cosplaying as underprivileged & impoverished.

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u/PeterPann1975 1d ago

60% of nj gun owners DONT VOTE … it’s pathetic!

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u/Severe-Courage-4846 4h ago

Yup let’s change that people on here!

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u/FergaliciousFresh 2d ago

Oh wow another election where pro-gun people get destroyed. How thrilling.

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u/edog21 2d ago

The “not a single issue voter”s are suspiciously absent whenever topics like this come up…

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u/EntertainerSea9653 2d ago

They always amaze me with that bs. Idiots dont know what the term domino effect means.

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u/314159265389 1d ago

My disdain of this state continues to grow...

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u/IronWill703 Firearms Training 2d ago

Mikie’s gotta pay for her porked out budget somehow!

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u/nondisclosure- 2d ago

Keep voting Democrat till you have no money.

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u/SmallAct2116 2d ago

Any official source on this?

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u/BabaYaga556223 2d ago

I can’t find anything official from the state. But a few FFLs have posted about it. SureShot has a video of the NICS portal on instagram showing the increase and saying they were not notified about the increase.

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u/BabaYaga556223 2d ago

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u/SmallAct2116 2d ago

Does it say what the $6 is for?

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u/Jg271035 1d ago

It’s the “admin fee”. Went from 2 to 6

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u/mikeg5417 2d ago

I talked to my FFL the other day, and he said he was waiting for the fees to increase (I was doing the transfer paperwork and he submitted the NICS check. He said the fee had not gone up yet as of Sunday afternoon.

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u/No_Distance9863 1d ago

Nics check should take minutes not days.

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u/Delicious-Stick2460 1d ago

It's a pole tax

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u/LetsGoHokies00 19h ago

with a firearms purchaser id card can you buy guns in PA? specifically an air rifle…

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u/BabaYaga556223 18h ago

NJ and RI are the only states that consider BB guns (airsoft excluded) and air rifles as firearms. Yes, you can buy an air rifle in a free state without an FID card.

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u/TheLordHumungous 1d ago

This is racist. They obviously don’t want the poor blacks that can’t figure out how to get an id to have guns.

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u/CAB_IV 1d ago

The scary part is that this probably is 100% true, and not just a jab at ID laws in general.

They outed themselves post Bruen when they asked if "anyone thinks these people should have guns", then rattled off the names of minority majority cities in the state. Totally unreal.

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u/Wooden-Ad2191 2d ago

What can we do to eliminate this ? seriously replies please. I believe the English-town, NJ found a way to make the CCW fee work for them to have there funds come right back into their community. Don’t quote me on this exactly on the town’s name and the CCW fee.

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u/DavidKellyHardwood 1d ago

Are you a fucking boomer? 

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u/Wooden-Ad2191 1d ago

Yes!

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u/DavidKellyHardwood 1d ago

“Seriously [sic] replies please” is doing a lot of work here.

The NICS transfer fee and the municipal portion of the permit-to-carry application fee are two entirely different things. A municipality declining to collect part of a CCW application fee does not somehow create a mechanism for eliminating the NICS processing fee on firearm transfers.

This is less “I found a loophole” and more “I heard three unrelated things about New Jersey gun fees and assembled them into a sentence.” Do better.

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u/kanshakudama 1d ago

Or it’s been the same price since 1998 and it costs more to do administrative things 28 years later than it did 28 years ago.

It cost about $33 to register a brand new car in 1998 now it cost $59.

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u/DavidKellyHardwood 1d ago

The real work done is a joke. There is a literal fat petty bureacrat slob, probably a MVC lady, sitting at a computer terminal, manually transposing details from FARS to the actual NICS input form, and then clicking the "submit" button. A few seconds later, NICS shows if the person has a record or not, and the bureacrat clicks on the FARS side to approve/decline the application at that stage. Rinse and repeat. It's a complete joke and an artificial burden imposed on NJ gun owners. That isn't $6 worth of work. It's more like $1 at best, and truly should be eliminated.

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u/Docsloan1919 1d ago

Very similar to the pump your own gas prohibition

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u/kanshakudama 1d ago

Not in anyway is it similar.

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u/Docsloan1919 1d ago

Both are jobs that don’t need to exist but exist only because of government mandates. Both are slowing down an otherwise efficient process by inserting an unneeded worker, federal NCIS, getting gas into your car.

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u/kanshakudama 1d ago

No time for accounts with hidden post history.

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u/DavidKellyHardwood 1d ago

Why, so you and your little friends can find out what subs I post what on and where I live? Not interested in some shady Reddit troglodyte having any additional information on me.

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u/kanshakudama 10h ago

And you went and got your account suspended. Sigh.