{"id":43692,"date":"2015-09-23T01:13:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T05:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=43692"},"modified":"2015-09-23T01:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T01:25:53","slug":"man-confiscated-m1-carbine-illegal-assault-firearm-new-jersey-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/man-confiscated-m1-carbine-illegal-assault-firearm-new-jersey-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Will Not Get Back His Confiscated M1 Carbine, It\u2019s An \u2018Illegal Assault Firearm,\u2019 Rules NJ Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">New Jersey native\u00a0Danny Burt inherited his grandfather\u2019s M1 carbine in 2006.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Burt\u2019s grandfathered served in WWII, so the iconic rifle meant a lot to the Cumberland County resident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In April 2013, Burt\u2019s entire gun collection \u2014 including the M1 carbine and 20 other firearms \u2014 was confiscated by the New Jersey State Police after a temporary restraining order was filed against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A month later, the restraining order was dropped.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When Burt, who had no criminal history, attempted to reclaim his firearms, the court ruled that \u201cthe M-1 carbine is an illegal weapon and is therefore improper to possess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Burt claimed the rifle had considerable sentimental value to him, and that he had no knowledge as to whether the gun was operable,&#8221; the decision states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While the court offered its sympathy, it iterated that not only was the weapon \u201ccontraband\u201d but since it\u2019s a second-degree felony to possess the rifle in the first place, the court granted the prosecutor\u2019s request to force Burt to forfeit his entire gun collection as well as his firearms purchaser\u2019s identification card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">From the <a href=\"https:\/\/njcourts.judiciary.state.nj.us\/web0\/\/opinions\/a4797-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"man-confiscated-m1-carbine-illegal-assault-firearm-new-jersey-court\" title=\"Man Will Not Get Back His Confiscated M1 Carbine, It\u2019s An \u2018Illegal Assault Firearm,\u2019 Rules NJ Court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court documents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Here, of course, plaintiff had not one but two hearings in which he stipulated to a statutory basis for forfeiture, namely his possession of an illegal assault firearm, the M1 carbine, resulting in a judicial finding disqualifying him from gun ownership in New Jersey and revoking his firearms purchaser identification card. Possession of an assault firearm is a second-degree crime under N.J.S.A. 2C:39-5f.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>As the prosecutor correctly asserts, &#8220;the weapon is contraband [which] can never be returned to [Burt].&#8221; Accordingly, because Burt has had a weapon seized as a result of a domestic violence complaint that has not and can never be lawfully returned to him, he is subject to the specific disability under the Gun Control Law contained in N.J.S.A. 2C:58-3c(8).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[H\/T: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/cumberland\/index.ssf\/2015\/09\/grandfathers_wwii_rifle_is_an_illegal_assault_weap.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"man-confiscated-m1-carbine-illegal-assault-firearm-new-jersey-court\" title=\"Man Will Not Get Back His Confiscated M1 Carbine, It\u2019s An \u2018Illegal Assault Firearm,\u2019 Rules NJ Court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NJ.com<\/a>; Chris Eger, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guns.com\/2015\/09\/22\/man-told-cant-have-gramps-m1-as-its-an-assault-firearm\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"man-confiscated-m1-carbine-illegal-assault-firearm-new-jersey-court\" title=\"Man Will Not Get Back His Confiscated M1 Carbine, It\u2019s An \u2018Illegal Assault Firearm,\u2019 Rules NJ Court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guns.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey court ruled that \u201cthe M-1 carbine is an illegal weapon and is therefore improper to possess.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":43710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,25,261,216,240],"tags":[132,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-police-state","11":"category-s-h-blannelberry","12":"category-this-week","13":"tag-buzz","14":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Man Will Not Get Back His Confiscated M1 Carbine, It\u2019s An \u2018Illegal Assault Firearm,\u2019 Rules NJ Court<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A New Jersey court ruled that \u201cthe M-1 carbine is an illegal weapon and is therefore improper to possess.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/man-confiscated-m1-carbine-illegal-assault-firearm-new-jersey-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Man Will Not Get Back His Confiscated M1 Carbine, It\u2019s An \u2018Illegal Assault Firearm,\u2019 Rules NJ Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A New Jersey court ruled that \u201cthe M-1 carbine is an illegal weapon and is therefore improper to possess.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/man-confiscated-m1-carbine-illegal-assault-firearm-new-jersey-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-09-23T05:13:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-19T01:25:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/M1CarbineNewJersey.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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