Overnightmadness

Well I guess the 2nd question is.... what's the most commonly available ammo around here? I don't any trouble getting my hands on .22 and .40. And why is it so hard to find? Sorry for all the newby questions.

Lol, another one here. I bought the S&W .40 as my first gun little more than 3 weeks ago and I've since put about 300 rounds through it. I took a lesson and I've been reading up on technique etc and I've definitely been getting better but I have to say I'm still a pretty lousy shot. I bought a 22lr rifle last weekend and I was about a 200% better shot on that right out of the box. Still kinda feels like a glorified pellet gun but it's definitely easier to hit the mark. I still have one more handgun buyers permit and I was thinking of getting a 2nd hand gun and came on here to get some suggestions. Looks like a 22lr hand gun is in order. I have to say, it's not much "fun" buying a 22 pistol but it sound like it might be the right call. What about a .38? What's the next cheapest caliber ammo after the 22?

Hi guys, I know this forum doesn't get a lot of traffic but I have a NJ specific question. I'm hoping folks are around that can help answer this one. My dad passed away a few years ago and my mother moved to a smaller place in Ohio. I moved to NJ about 5 years ago and got my NJ firearms permit just this month. I had forgotten until recently that my dad had a small collection of old shotguns that my mother hung onto and still keeps in storage in Ohio. I asked her for them and she's agreed to ship them to me. I think it's 4 guns total, all 12 gauge shotguns. My mother doesn't know guns really but she seems to think one or two of them are rather valuable. A few of them were actually my paternal grandfather's and he was a bit of the dandy gentleman hunter type, definitely the type to drop a lot on a nice gun. He liked to impress. I remember one double barrel specifically being rather ornate with fancy etching in the steel and the double trigger. Anyway, I digress. How do I have my mother ship them to me? Can she just go FedEx and declare what they are and give a random number as to value? Can I have them delivered to my house? Do I have to go the FFL/ transfer fee route? Obviously I want to keep this totally above board. Thanks.

Just wanted to chime in here having read this thread. I was surprised to find out they had called my boss and my wife. My wife said it was kind of a strange phone call. They asked if she was my wife, asked if I was home and then the officer just kind of casually started probing to see if things were "alright" with me and our home. She said the officer was coming across very friendly and almost like a therapist, lol. She said it would have been very easy for someone getting that phone call to say anything like "well, he's been under a lot of stress lately" or something like that and it was clear that was what the officer was after. My boss on the other hand walks into my office, closes the door and asks point blank if I have a problem with someone at the company and if I'm planning to do anything crazy. Um, no, I just had to laugh (he's rather blunt). But I'm now starting to get nervous they're going to fail me. I've had a lot of jobs and residences in the last 15 years and wasn't so careful filling out those employment and place of residence forms. My circle of people and the township I live in is decidedly left of center. Most of the folks in my business, my friends and wife's friends have never even held a gun. I grew up shooting skeet and plinking in Ohio, and though I was nevr a hunter, I've been around it and guns enough that it seems to me like it shouldn't be a big deal. And for the record I never signed a release. I'm playing ball and trying to be a cheerful guy when I talk with them but I'm 2 months into this process and they just told me it could be another 4 more months of waiting. Sheesh, it really not right. If they do fail me.... what then? Is there anything I could do? Would they even tell me why I was failed?

I'm just ending my 2nd month of trying to get a permit. My town has exactly 2 hours per week they deal with this. Of course it's in the middle of the day so you have to leave work. Whatever. The 1st week I showed up, the officer who handled it wasn't there. I didn't know you could download and print the forms and fill them out prior so when I picked them up he says I can't stay there and just fill them out, I have to bring them back the next week. ok. So I bring them back and tells me they no longer do fingerprinting on site and refer me to an outside company. Call them and the soonest appointment is 3 weeks out. ok. So I'm done with finger printing and I know the reference letters have been returned, I call them and ask if there's anything else I need to do and how long I should expect to be waiting for a phone call and they say..... 3 to 4 months! If this is true this whole process will have taken 5 to 6 months?!?!? My record is clean, I'm sane etc etc. What's worse is that they notified my place of employment and my wife that I was seeking a hand gun permit. No biggie really, the wife knows and job isn't a problem (it did make for an awkward conversation) but still, that irked me. I'm in no position to get a lawyer and I learned at a young age that you don't go up against local police in anything you care about unless you're planning on moving far away later that day. Is there anything that can be done? I'm not desperate for a gun but it jhis is obviously a tactic they're employing that has worked in the past. They seem perfectly confident no one's going to say anything. I grew up in Ohio and I don't even want to talk about how easy it was to get a gun. I saved up a $1000 for a top of the line Browning shotgun when I was 19, went to the sporting goods store and walked out with it in 15 minutes. Granted that was 20 years ago. Now I'm 39, a tax paying home owner with a spotless record (don't even have speeding tickets) and great credit and I'm lookinig at 6 months to get a peashooter. :violin: