Firearms Information

HOW TO APPLY FOR A FIREARMS ID CARD

AND HANDGUN PURCHASE PERMITS

All applications for firearms licenses, permits, and changes begin online on the NJ’s Firearms Application and Registration System (FARS) website.  Your application will begin with the State Police and then be handed over to Deal Police Department to be completed.

EFFECTIVE MARCH 2023

Firearms fees have increased as per New Jersey Statute and are now:

  • $25 per handgun permit
  • $50 for Firearm Identification cards

 

Upon approval, you will be contacted to pay the permit and/or initial Firearm Identification card fees. Payment will be accepted in check OR money order payable to “Deal Police Department.”

***DO NOT CALL OR COME IN TO PAY UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN CONTACTED BY THE DEAL POLICE FIREARMS DIVISION. PAYMENT WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED UPON APPROVAL***

The online FARS website is for:

  • Initial Firearms Purchaser Identification Card
  • Application to purchase a handgun
  • Change of Name on Identification Card
  • Change of Address on Identification Card
  • Change of Sex on Identification Card
  • Lost or Stolen Identification Card
  • Mutilated Identification Card

 

STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FARS WEBSITE:

  1. Go to: https://www.njportal.com/njsp/fars
  2. On the bottom left of the F.A.R.S. page, you will see a button marked “Online Firearms Application,” This will bring you to the next page, where you will need our ORI # NJ013100.
  3. You may now continue with your online application. Note: you will need to provide the email addresses of two (2) reputable references (friends, co-workers, family members, etc.) during the application process.
    • IMPORTANT: Inform your references that the FARS system will email them a “questionnaire” that must be completed immediately in order to complete your application. Failure to do so will delay or may even “reject” your application.
    • To avoid delaying the processing of your application, be sure to enter your name as it appears on your driver’s license.
  4. If you have never been fingerprinted before for firearms purposes,  you will need to go for fingerprinting. Fingerprinting appointment can be scheduled at https://uenroll.identogo.com/workflows/2F164B after the successful submission of your application. However, if you have been fingerprinted before for firearm purposes, you will have completed both the Firearms Application and 212A requirements upon completing your application and payment.
  5.  The applicant will be able to download and print the Electronic Firearms Purchaser Identification Card (E-FID) from their approval email.
  6.  For “Permits to Purchase a Handgun,” the approval email will serve as a necessary document for handgun permit execution.

HOW TO APPLY FOR A PERMIT TO CARRY A HANDGUN

Directions for applying for a permit to carry a handgun. Please download the following instructions and forms:

  1. Permit to carry instructions
  2. New Jersey Mental Health consent form
  3. Permit to carry application
  4. New York Mental Health consent form

 

If you have lived within the State of New York at any time during the past ten years, you must fill out the New York mental health consent form. Please complete all relevant sections of the form and email it to cmirrione@dealpolice.org. Include your social security number in the upper right box of page 1. The "from" and "to" portions should be left blank.

 

Any questions should be directed to: cmirrione@dealpolice.org or dliptak@dealpolice.org

EFFECTIVE MARCH 2023: Firearms fees have increased per New Jersey Statute.  Carry Permit is a $150 check OR money order payable to “Borough of Deal” AND a $50.00 money order payable to “New Jersey State Police.”