Grima Squeakersen
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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.
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7 minutes ago, siderman said:Sort of. Mass migration to FL the past few yrs has almost doubled real estate for sure. But it also heavily favored the Republican registration machine so much that for the first time 2 yrs ago the registered R's passed the D's and the margin keeps growing. Btw the state legislature- gov, house, senate are all owned by the R's roughly 2-1, the opposite of NJ.
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.
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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.
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2 hours ago, leahcim said:Same in Washington State, mass migration of Californians in the 80s had the initial effect of driving up real estate prices, and eventually flipped the state from redish to blue.
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.
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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.
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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?
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2 hours ago, diamondd817 said:It's all intentional.
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?
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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 :-/
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On 4/4/2024 at 7:03 PM, High Exposure said:Rule 3 as we know it didn’t become universal until 1976 when Cooper started teaching it.
Before then, trigger finger disciple as a universal rule was non existent. The common belief was the faster you could touch the trigger, the better.
A lot of the holster designs are “classic” and made more for looks than utility - in my opinion.
Personally, if you are carrying in a holster that doesn’t cover the trigger, you are behind the power curve. You have either not kept up with modern TTPs or you care more about appearance than function. Either way - that’s a no-go in my book.
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.
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On 11/13/2023 at 9:53 AM, Mr.Stu said:If you have been fingerprinted before for firearms purposes, then you don't need to do it again. However, if the SBI does not have electronic fingerprints on file, you need to get them done.
That's good to know. For me, Identogo was a royal PITA, NTM more money spent.
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On 2/26/2024 at 9:38 AM, RWL62 said:$200 for the government ($150 goes to your local PD, and $50 goes to NJSP) and whatever your local training center or instructor charges. Gun For Hire in Woodland Park charged me $275 (with tax, $285). So, for me, will be $475 every two years (but I'm sure the cost will continue to go up).
IF you do not have a local PD, presumably the entire $200 larcenous fee goes to NJSP.
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33 minutes ago, Mr.Stu said:Revolver holsters were exactly what the OP was asking about.
I don't think they are quite as unsafe as some might expect. Remember that a double action trigger on a revolver is in the region of 10lb. Add to that the resistance created by the friction of trying to rotate the cylinder while it is in the holster, it would be pretty difficult to fire the gun by accident - not impossible, but also not very likely.
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.
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On 3/31/2024 at 10:23 AM, voyager9 said:With extra pineapple?
More likely the media hyping the hot topic. They did the same thing with railroad accidents after Palestine.
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.
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On 3/31/2024 at 1:12 AM, Sudsy said:That's a very good question.
So if you live in NYC do you have to pay Federal, NJ, NY, and NYC taxes ?
You won 1 BILLION dollars
Here's 50 bucks, congrats
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 :-)
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There was another case, post-Bruen, charging an illegal alien with firearms possession violation (among other charges). The judge's reasoning in that case appears to specifically address some of the issues raised in this thread. Judge Cardone was a Shrub appointee. Warning, this is a long and, in parts, tedious, read...
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On 3/25/2024 at 6:33 PM, RadioGunner said:The eye doctor's office is a medical establishment. The place where you buy the glasses is not. However, they are often combined. It is risky.
There are "eye doctors" and "eye doctors". An optometrist is trained to measure deficiencies in eyesight that can be corrected by lenses, and to prescribe and fit those lenses. He or she will have a "Doctor of Optometry" (OD) degree, but is not a medical doctor. An opthalmologist is a medical doctor (MD), and is trained to treat diseases of the eye. An office with an optometrist might not be prohibited, probably should not be, even by the intent of the NJ regs, but it's a grey area, and I personally wouldn't chance it. YMMV, significantly.
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3 hours ago, 45Doll said:I own property in Virginia (vacation and off-grid, bail-out-to property), have been a VCDL member, and I think Youngkin did a tremendously good job with the veto pen. I just hope he gets reelected in 2025 and has a friendlier House of Delegates to work with tthen (VA Senate isn't up unitl 2027).
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On 3/25/2024 at 5:44 PM, 1LtCAP said:i'd been wondering about the denials. essentially, do the use of force, shoot the quals, and there is NOTHING left for them to refuse ya for.
I've had past experiences with some local police functionaries that leads me to believe that it's possible someone could be denied if he or she was considered to be a royal PITA. Sadly, I've met a few who were that petty and power-happy.
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On 3/15/2024 at 4:33 PM, dilbert1967 said:For those people here who applied and were given a bad e-mail address from a reference, what did you do to fix it? I know the answer is somewhere in the 158 pages that make up this thread, but to save time, I thought I'd just ask the question.
As it turns out, the answer wasn't in this thread.
My buddy used me for a reference, and provided my correct email address on his application, but somewhere along the NJSP chain of possession, there was a hyphen inserted where it did not belong (my guess is that it was at the end of a line in some document that contained a macro for line breaks) that invalidated the address. He was told there was no correction/editing process and had to resubmit, and went through some other delaying nonsense (I'm not certain of all of it) as well, and it delayed him by at least two weeks. This was during the transition from paper to the on-line application process. I got massively screwed up on my application during the transition from judge to police approval. Damned state is plenty effed up when a process is stable, God help anyone who submits any paperwork for anything here while a process is being changed.
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24 minutes ago, Mr.Stu said:John is a good guy. Sometimes he writes things with his tongue so far in his cheek that he risks biting it off.
That makes more sense now. Thanks!
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On 3/14/2024 at 8:29 PM, dilbert1967 said:I find it interesting that the state is reporting approximately 33,400 permit-to carry applications since Bruen and Anthony, on his GFH show two weeks ago, stated that he has qualified just over 30,000 applicants on his range. I think the state is under-reporting....again. Especially when youj consider all of the other ranges that were doing qualifications. "Transparency" is a foreign concept to Murphy and crew.
There certainly would appear to be a discrepancy there. As much as I despise the way PRNJ is run, and the clowns running it, I honestly don't see how they would think they could get away with under-reporting permit applications and issuance by that large of a factor. I can't imagine that more than 25% (SWAG) of all NJ PtC applicants quaify at GFH, my expectation is that the actual fraction is considerably lower. I wonder if a significant number of those GFH qualifiers don't bother completing the application process for one reason or another.
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On 3/17/2024 at 8:27 AM, FDHog said:If the NJ Carry stipulations of where we can and can't carry is the Law of the Land, how could these signs be legal? What if it went the other way where a bar owner put up a sign " guns allowed"? Would that make it OK for us to go in? I can't see how these sings would be legal. Might be the establishment's preference, but not the law. I don't see it holding water.
The regs passed in NJ in response to Judge Bumb's decision forcing the issue of CC permits does provide that any business that posts such a sign becomes a restricted area. Those new regs were partially overturned (more to it than that, but don't feel like writing a novel at the moment) but that provision remains in effect. Clearly unconstitutional, along with most other NJ carry regs, but in terms of state law it is "legal", until overturned by a higher court.
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On 3/14/2024 at 8:19 PM, 45Doll said:OK. Start the timer for the first armed robbery at a decaled business.
And the perpetrator of course will not have a permit to carry. Nor can they probably read.
Does this mean we can sue a business that posts that decal if we're harmed in their store during an armed robbery?
/SarcOff/
I already know the answer.
The perp will probably have hopped off one of Greg Abbott's buses early...
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On 3/17/2024 at 8:42 PM, FDHog said:Beautiful dog. Unfortunately I have a 105# English lab that would lick them to death or maybe not.
It's amazing how when criminals are confronted by an armed person, they hightail it and run like the cowards they are.
A lab might confront in intruder. Unless the intruder has food...
Radios...?
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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.
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