Top 10 Worst Towns in N.J. on Permit to Carry Issuance Delays
The NJNRC notes the following jurisdictions with the longest average wait times during the time frame between February 2019 and March 2024:
Seaside Park 253 days
Hi-Nella 200 days
Palmyra Boro 196 days
Bayhead Boro 191 days
Westville 170 days
Allenhurst 165 days
Englishtown 153 days
Ringwood Boro 135 days
Ho-Ho-Kus 129 days
Ogdensburg 124 days
For the jurisdictions with the highest number of days wait on an individual application, we have Orange, Jackson Township, and the NJ State Police. Those waits were 1178, 1096, and 1002 days respectively.
The jurisdictions with the worst average wait times for the first quarter of 2024 are as follows:
Ho-Ho-Kus 151 days
Chesilhurst 142 days
Hillside 137 days
Pompton Lakes Boro 128 days
South Bound Brook 118 days
Chatham Boro 110 days
Asbury Park 108 days
Cresskill 107 days
West Caldwell 107
Pine Hill 106
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And finally, the jurisdictions with the lowest average wait times since 2019 are as follows:
Pine Beach Boro 0 days
Marlboro Township 8 days
Toms River Township 11 days
Flemington 12 days
Robbinsville 12 days
Howell Township 15 days
Eastampton Township 15 days
Middle Township 16 days
Hardyston Township 16 days
Wyckoff Township 17 days
During the first quarter of 2024, there were 49 jurisdictions with an average wait time of zero days to issue permits.
While the wait time for carry permits is closely monitored by activists, it seems one community may have tried to find a way to…discourage gun ownership without crossing that particular Rubicon.
Is Belleville, New Jersey Slow-Walking Firearm Related Permits?
New Jersey is a special place when it comes to the Second Amendment. For nearly a century, the rights enshrined in our Bill of Rights concerning weapons and arms have been under regulation. In the wake of NYSRPA v. Bruen, most of the permitting issues should have been resolved. In N.J., in particular, this should not be an issue. 100% of the application process is online and the New Jersey State Police handles the heavy lifting on the background checks. Recently there have been reports coming in that Belleville is allegedly slow-walking permits.
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N.J. requires firearm identification cards for the purchase of, and the possession outside of exemption, of long guns. N.J. also requires pistol purchase permits for each and every handgun an individual wishes to acquire. The permits are good for 90 days with an option to renew for another 90 days at the issuing authority’s discretion.
Further, a person must be in possession of and show either a firearm identification card, pistol purchase permit, or permit to carry in order to purchase handgun ammunition in the Garden State.
Reports have been coming in that Belleville is taking an excessively long time to process peoples’ pistol purchase permits and firearm identification cards. This is even in the case of people who have already been through the New Jersey vetting system multiple times in their lifetimes.
According to one applicant, Belleville resident Daniel Iannuzzo, these issues have persisted for years. Reviewing the paperwork and documentation that Iannuzzo provided, we can see he applied for three permits to purchase pistols on November 13th, 2024.
New Jersey requires applicants – even repeat ones – to provide two character references in order to apply for permits. Iannuzzo’s references returned their character evaluations via the reporting system on November 13th and 14th respectively.
Iannuzzo also has a receipt dated November 14th, 2024 showing that he paid the required $75.00 fee to Belleville – in addition to the $21.00 background investigation fee to the State of New Jersey.
According to New Jersey law, an issuing authority has 30 days to issue permits to purchase or firearm identification cards to resident
Belleville’s carry permit wait time is on par with the rest of the state, but that’s not something that’s handled locally in the first place.
You got that right. When we moved to Upper Township in 1986, we registered Republican rather than unaffiliated, because there was no effective Democratic Party here, and we figured that the primary would serve to allow us to vote for the candidate(s) of our choice. Except that a Republican primary was never held, a small circle of self-interested pols had a resolute grasp on the reins of power, and most of the citizens were complacent, and didn’t really give a damn. How does that happen? Well, shortly after we moved here in October, two local Republicans who had not been selected for the ballot (ex-NJSP Stoddard Bixby and local legacy pol Curtis Corson - I don’t mind naming names, the bastards all hate me anyway came door-to-door trying to persuade voters to write in their names, come Election Day. They made a few promises, but central to their efforts was the promise to make absolutely certain that a Republican primary would be held before each and every local election. Strangely enough, this tactic worked, and they were elected, Not so strangely, once they got on town council, they were bought off with preferred committee assignments and other bribes, and the “primary” word was not heard again here for nearly 20 years. There have been Republican primaries held for the last 2 election cycles, but at this point, all of the candidates would have been able to pass for left-of-center Democrats a few years ago, there really is that little variance of responses to issues, Pretty disgusting here, and I suspect that we are far from unique.
I really don’t understand this stance - “We don’t have any perfectly pro-RKBA candidates, so I’ll just sit out this election…again”.
What difference would it have made if Ciattarelli had been governor for the last 4 years instead of Murphy!? The last gubernatorial was uncomfortably close for the D’s.
This type of thinking is going to get us Mikie Sherrill as the next governor. She’s just as rabidly anti-RKBA, if not more so, as Murphy.
So we should let her slide in because Jack C. said he thought PTC’s should be limited 4 years ago?
Hey DirtyDigz, I may not have been too clear with my comments (just ask my wife). I fully understand the need to cast my vote, even if it’s for the lesser of two evils, and haven’t missed a single opportunity since I first started. I voted for Ciattarelli because his positions aligned with mine much more than the other guy. But, it’s one thing for a politician to change his/her views because of self-reflection, and quite another because it may be politically expedient to do so.
If I lost time between permits because I applied “late”, it wouldn’t be a big deal except I have a non-resident PA permit and I have to submit my new NJ permit so my PA permit remains valid. I think PA frowns upon having a break between NJ resident permits.
came door-to-door trying to persuade voters to write in their names, come Election Day. They made a few promises, but central to their efforts was the promise to make absolutely certain that a Republican primary would be held before each and every local election. Strangely enough, this tactic worked, and they were elected, Not so strangely, once they got on town council, they were bought off with preferred committee assignments and other bribes, and the “primary” word was not heard again here for nearly 20 years. There have been Republican primaries held for the last 2 election cycles, but at this point, all of the candidates would have been able to pass for left-of-center Democrats a few years ago, there really is that little variance of responses to issues, Pretty disgusting here, and I suspect that we are far from unique.