New Jersey legislators are considering Senate bill 1800, which would add paperwork duties for licensed firearm dealers. After every retail sale or transfer, wholesale and retail dealers plus their employees would have to hand the buyer a written notice that the buyer signs and keeps, covering the ban on buying a gun to sell it illegally and the existing duty to notify municipal police or the state police superintendent within 36 hours if a firearm is lost or stolen. Dealers would retain each signed notice for at least 15 years.

A first violation would trigger a civil penalty plus a fine, with stiffer sanctions for later offenses. The NRA Institute for Legislative Action argued the proposal piles bureaucracy on already federally regulated dealers, ignores violent criminals, and will not raise public safety.