Grima Squeakersen

Have you done any research into the cost and licensing requirements to run a repeater? We own some mountainous acreage in a very rural part of Virginia RIdge and Valley country that serves as vacation place and potential SHTF retreat. We get mediocre cell phone coverage (US Cellular only) and nothing else. I have thought of putting an antenna tower up the hill a ways (we own nearly to the top of the ridge. I wouldn't do it just for Ham or GMRS radio, but if I could get expanded cell coverage, and/or satellite internet (Dish or Starlink) as well, from one tower, I might go for it. ==== sorry, didn't intend to hijack the thread ====

The biggest problem with this announcement is that the FBI has proven itself to be completely untrustworthy, but it is the agency charged with keeping the public informed about such developments. So, this is something that Wray and the FBI want us to believe, because they are convinced that is in their best interests that we do so. But how much objective truth is there to it? Are Biden's enviro-Nazi puppeteers planning to sabotage the internet and what is left of our petrochemical production capability and somehow false flag attribute that attack to the Chinese? Unlikely, but it's terrible and damning that I even need to seriously consider that possibility. It's a dilemma. Reminds me of an old Star Trek TV episode where Kirk short-circuits some robotic adversary by telling it, "I always lie. Listen very carefully. I am lying to you..." Personally, I'll wait until I see some corroboration of this from something that I regard as a trusted source (and those are few and far between these days) before I buy it.

That political skew is good as long as it lasts. I know about the real estate increase. I had been considering FL as a potential long-term alternative if I completely give up on NJ. Now I'm leaning more toward SC. I know some folks with places on the coast a bit away from the elite areas, and they like it very much. And real estate in those places seems to be holding reasonable prices, at least compared to FL.

I have been cleaning at home, but I don't have a permanent station set up for this, so I need to spend some time rearranging stuff before doing so. I've also thought of cleaning while at the range, so I'm interested in the comments about various ranges not allowing cleaning on-premises. Do you mean that they don't provide a dedicated space to do this, or that they actually forbid the practice? I pay for range time per hour, and, as long as I'm paying for the time, I'm wondering if the range is likely to object if I'm cleaning 1 or 2 handguns instead of shooting them. I know I can ask them, but if it is a general prohibition for a good reason, I'd like to know in advance.

I have a sneaking suspicion that something similar could happen (if it isn't already) to Florida, as well, That wouldn't be a good thing.

Just a heads-up for anyone who might also be in this situation. I joined USLS mid-April of 2022. Some time after renewing for 2023, I changed email providers, and dutifully reflected my new address on my account page. So, I have been anticipating renewal alerts at my new address, but those never arrived. I logged in to my account the other day, and was surprised to see that my subscription expired that same day. I went to my account main information page, confimed that my email address was correct, then went to the billing page, which showed my previous two payments, but which did not give me any apparent way to pay up for the new year. I requested support using the Customer Service form on the web site, but received no reply. Today I called their support number. Apparently changing the email address from my view of my account page did nothing to change the address that they use internally for billing purposes, including expiration notifications. Maybe they also use that address for replies to the support form, even if a different email address is entered there. Also, my account was set up to auto-renew and charge my credit card without my intervention, but that setting did not show on my account page in any obvious way. So, if you have USLS and have changed your email address since you last renewed, you might want to give them a call to ensure that they send renewal information to your correct address. The prospect of having legal coverage lapse while carrying in NJ was, for me, a less that confidence inspiring experience. I will note that the telephone-based customer service was excellent.

F*n imbeciles. They know damned well (or should) that, even if passed by the Colorado Senate and signed into law, virtually that entire load of crap is certain to fail Bruen/Heller scrutiny, and probably sooner, rather than later (SCOTUS). What a monumental waste of time (of course, how much can a dip$h*t's time be worth, anyway?) and energy. I passed through Colorado a few times in the 70s, and visited some clients there in the 80's & 90's, and, even by the end of that period, I had the impression that it was politically fairly conservative (with a few exceptions such as Aspen). WTF happened?

Of course it is. Does anyone seriously think that if the stakes were transposed: if there was a SCOTUS decision that allowed restrictions on firearms privileges that had previously been allowed under NJ law, that court decisions implementing those changes would not have been long since rendered in final form?

Agree with the other two replies. In general, semi-auto rifles and shotguns are highly restricted in terms of functional enhancements, while bolt-action or pump-fed long guns have a great deal more latitude. Doesn't make any real sense, but if you are moving here, you should start getting used to that (not exclusive to firearms regs, either :-/

Thanks. I have Col. Cooper's rules permanently taped to the front of my gun safe, but I wasn't aware that he was solely responsible for the that trigger discipline.

That's good to know. For me, Identogo was a royal PITA, NTM more money spent.

IF you do not have a local PD, presumably the entire $200 larcenous fee goes to NJSP.

But what is the claimed point or advantage of such a holster, given that every guide to gun handling good practice that I have ever seen dictates that no finger is to be placed on the trigger until the target is acquired? The first pictured example also appears to me to present an unacceptable risk of losing the firearm in strenuous activity.

There was also an MSM story played up a couple days after the bridge hit trying to make a big deal of a claim that the operator had been investigated a while back for retaliating against a whistleblower on a different ship, who had allegedly reported some safety concerns, among other things. Then I dug a little deeper to find that the operator was Maersk. How many thousands of ship routes do they run annually? At their volume it would be amazing to me to find that there had never been any complaints filed.

If you won 1 billion and elected the cash option, they are "only" going to pay you ~400 million. The advertised jackpot value assumes that you will elect to take an annuity over 20 years (with the lottery operators making out by keeping the undisbursed portion invested, natch). The web pages for the different games have the cash payout (typically a bit over 40% of the total) listed in small font. So, the jackpot number is a little bit scammy. But if you did win a lottery jackpot worth many, many millions of dollars, your most prudent course might me to find an investment advisor who typically handles such sums, and discuss options such as creating a tax exempt foundation to accept the prize. Then that foundation could make payments to you and your family (in addition to pursuing whatever tax exempt purpose it was nominally set up for, of course) in amounts that would let you manage your reported income to minimize taxes. Obviously, you would need to wait until that was set up to sign and cash the ticket. Or, you could just cash it yourself and let the government walk off with 90% or more of your billion bucks. That, or the annuity option, would probably be the easiest strategy, but I'll be damned if I could ever let that happen :-)