New Jersey S 2683: Expands maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 15 rounds.

Bill Text

SENATE, No. 2683

STATE OF NEW JERSEY
220th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED MAY 19, 2022

Sponsored by:
Senator EDWARD DURR
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

SYNOPSIS
Expands maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 15 rounds.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.

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EXPLANATION – Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is
not enacted and is intended to be omitted in the law.

Matter underlined thus is new matter.

AN ACT concerning ammunition and amending N.J.S.2C:39-1, 1
N.J.S.2C:39-3, and P.L.2018, c.39, and repealing various 2
sections of statutory law. 3
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BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State 5
of New Jersey: 6
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1. N.J.S.2C:39-1 is amended to read as follows: 8
2C:39-1. Definitions. The following definitions apply to this 9
chapter and to chapter 58: 10
a. "Antique firearm" means any rifle or shotgun and "antique 11
cannon" means a destructive device defined in paragraph (3) of 12
subsection c. of this section, if the rifle, shotgun or destructive 13
device, as the case may be, is incapable of being fired or 14
discharged, or which does not fire fixed ammunition, regardless of 15
date of manufacture, or was manufactured before 1898 for which 16
cartridge ammunition is not commercially available, and is 17
possessed as a curiosity or ornament or for its historical 18
significance or value. 19
b. "Deface" means to remove, deface, cover, alter or destroy 20
the name of the maker, model designation, manufacturer's serial 21
number or any other distinguishing identification mark or number 22
on any firearm. 23
c. "Destructive device" means any device, instrument or object 24
designed to explode or produce uncontrolled combustion, including 25
(1) any explosive or incendiary bomb, mine or grenade; (2) any 26
rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces or any 27
missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-28
quarter of an ounce; (3) any weapon capable of firing a projectile of 29
a caliber greater than 60 caliber, except a shotgun or shotgun 30
ammunition generally recognized as suitable for sporting purposes; 31
(4) any Molotov cocktail or other device consisting of a breakable 32
container containing flammable liquid and having a wick or similar 33
device capable of being ignited. The term does not include any 34
device manufactured for the purpose of illumination, distress 35
signaling, line-throwing, safety or similar purposes. 36
d. "Dispose of" means to give, give away, lease, loan, keep for 37
sale, offer, offer for sale, sell, transfer, or otherwise transfer 38
possession. 39
e. "Explosive" means any chemical compound or mixture that 40
is commonly used or is possessed for the purpose of producing an 41
explosion and which contains any oxidizing and combustible 42
materials or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or 43
packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion or by 44
detonation of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such 45
a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant 46

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gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on 1
contiguous objects. The term shall not include small arms 2
ammunition, or explosives in the form prescribed by the official 3
United States Pharmacopoeia. 4
f. "Firearm" means any handgun, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, 5
automatic or semi-automatic rifle, or any gun, device or instrument 6
in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired or ejected any 7
solid projectable ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet, or any gas, 8
vapor or other noxious thing, by means of a cartridge or shell or by 9
the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or explosive 10
substances. It shall also include, without limitation, any firearm 11
which is in the nature of an air gun, spring gun or pistol or other 12
weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling force is a spring, 13
elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas or vapor, air 14
or compressed air, or is ignited by compressed air, and ejecting a 15
bullet or missile smaller than three-eighths of an inch in diameter, 16
with sufficient force to injure a person. 17
g. "Firearm silencer" means any instrument, attachment, 18
weapon or appliance for causing the firing of any gun, revolver, 19
pistol or other firearm to be silent, or intended to lessen or muffle 20
the noise of the firing of any gun, revolver, pistol or other firearm. 21
h. "Gravity knife" means any knife which has a blade which is 22
released from the handle or sheath thereof by the force of gravity or 23
the application of centrifugal force. 24
i. "Machine gun" means any firearm, mechanism or instrument 25
not requiring that the trigger be pressed for each shot and having a 26
reservoir, belt or other means of storing and carrying ammunition 27
which can be loaded into the firearm, mechanism or instrument and 28
fired therefrom. A machine gun also shall inclu