New Jersey § 23:4-24

§ 23:4-24.

a. A person shall not hunt with a hound or with firearms or weapons of any kind, or carry a long gun in the woods or fields or on the waters on Sunday, under a penalty of $50 for

each offense; except that this section shall not apply to: (1) any person hunting raccoon between midnight on Saturday and sunrise on Sunday

during the season prescribed in R.S.23:4-1 ; (2) a person possessing a valid and proper rifle permit licensed to trap fur-bearing

animals pursuant to the provisions of R.S.23:3-1 using a .22 caliber rifle and .22 caliber short rimfire cartridges to humanely dispatch

legally trapped animals; or (3) a person using a bow and arrow to hunt deer during any bow and arrow hunting season

for deer prescribed by the State Fish and Game Code, provided the person possesses

a valid bow and arrow license, or a valid “All Around Sportsman License” if applicable,

issued by the division, abides by all applicable provisions of the code, and is hunting

on a State wildlife management area or on private property. b. This section shall not prevent farm land owners, lessees actually occupying or

farming the land, members of their immediate families, or their farm employees from

hunting and destroying at any time and in any manner crows, woodchuck, fox and vermin

on that land. c. For purposes of this section “ long gun ” means any rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic or semi-automatic rifle, or any

gun, device or instrument in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired or ejected

any solid projectable ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet, or any gas, vapor or

other noxious thing, by means of a cartridge or shell or by the action of an explosive

or the igniting of flammable or explosive substances. It shall also include, without limitation, any firearm which is in the nature of an

air gun, spring gun or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling

force is a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas or vapor,

air or compressed air, or is ignited by compressed air, and ejecting a bullet or missile

smaller than three-eighths of an inch in diameter, with sufficient force to injure

a person.