Signed by Governor Phil Murphy

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with house amendments and pass a bill that requires firearm retailers to sell personalized, or "smart" handguns.

Highlights:

• Requires each licensed firearm retailer to display personalized handguns for sale in a conspicuous manner that makes it easily visible to customers and distinguishable from other traditional handguns (Sec. 4). 

• Specifies that personalized handgun performance standards and qualifying criteria include, but are not limited to the following requirements (Sec. 2):

• The handgun will be reasonably resistant to being fired by anyone other than the handgun’s authorized user;

• The personalized technology will be incorporated into the design of the personalized handgun and will be a permanent, irremovable part of the handgun and any device or object necessary for the authorized user to fire the handgun;

• The personalized handgun will not be manufactured so as to permit the personalized characteristics of the handgun to be readily deactivated; and 

• The personalized handgun will meet any other reliability standards generally used in the industry for other commercially available handguns.

• Defines “authorized user” as the lawful owner of a personalized handgun or a person to whom the owner has given consent to use the personalized handgun (Sec. 6).

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Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass an amended bill that requires firearm retailers to sell personalized, or "smart" handguns.

Highlights:

Vote Smart staff and volunteers have provided this synopsis based on an initial review of the text and voting record of S 101. We will continue to analyze the contents of this bill and will have more information available as soon as possible.

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