Not long after December 2012, Joe Veni's neighbors in Brick started noticing how many people were visiting his house. "My one neighbor says, 'What are you selling that everybody wants?'" Veni said from his kitchen table, which doubles as his sales counter. "I said, 'An AR-15.'" Such semi-automatic rifles are legal in New Jersey with some modifications. And when efforts in Congress to tighten restrictions on them fizzled after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, they became a hot commodity for firearms dealers like Veni. "I must have bought about 50 of them, and I had them all in my living room," said Veni, whose home-based store is in a Brick neighborhood of evenly spaced, modest...
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