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  1. Posted

    19 hours ago, JackDaWack said:

    Where does the NRA fit into the question you were presented with? For all practical purposes, the NRA doesn't advocate in NJ much. We only have the leg of ANJRPC, which does a lot. My thoughts of the NRA wouldn't change the response to my question. 

    "NRA doesn't advocate in NJ much". That may be true, but to me is evading an important part of the issue. Many, if not most, ranges in NJ advocate for the NRA . Many if not most require NRA membership to join the range. Most appear to frequently encourage their members to engage in a variety of NRA activities that make money for that group. That is money that could stay in the members' wallets, or go towards firearms or ammo, or even be donated to an organization that is actually making an honest effort to promote firearms rights in this crummy state. To me, that stinks. The management of those ranges know full well what a crock the NRA is. Maybe it is too much to expect them to repudiate it, but at the very least they could stop playing recruiting and collection agent for it.

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    8 hours ago, GRIZ said:

    Read 10A.

    The Tenth Amendment denies States powers prohibited by the U. S. Constitution. At that point, the U. S. Constitution included both First and Second Amendments, which circumstance clearly (to me, at least) prohibits any State from either denying free speech or infringing arms rights. What part of that is inconsistent with what I wrote?

    "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

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    We have a >30 yo Westinghouse top loader. It recently  tried to crap out on us, and I was ready to buy a replacement. After reading over 100 reviews on about a dozen "top-rated" washers, and noting the many, many complaints about "green" "water saving" machines that don't get clothes clean because of the lack or water (duh!), I contacted a local repair shop. They came out and completely rebuilt our washer for a total cost of about $450. Yeah, that isn't much less thatn the cost of a new machine, but 6 months later it is still going strong, and our clothes get clean.

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    On 8/4/2023 at 7:58 PM, Mrs. Peel said:

    I've recently taken the plunge (a very expensive rabbit hole btw) of high power precision rifle (F-class & benchrest more specifically). So, I've been on a similar path as you - in terms of investigating various ranges. Let me share what's I've found so far. Going from North to South, and adding to the 2 posted above by @njJoniGuy:  

    • Cherry Ridge, Highland Lakes, NJ - 300 yards - you can join or attend comps open to the public. (I'm a member here - it's a LOVELY range - large - 100 yd rifle, 200/300 yard rifle, a pistol range, a shotgun range, etc. - something for everyone!)
    • Hudson Farms, Andover, NJ - 900 yards, longest in NJ - but an elite private club (think: CEOs landing at their private helipad kind of elite). I think this rule applies: "if you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it" - lol. The grounds are stunning! And it's worth a visit to see their gobsmacking Griffin & Howe gun room (a venerable old outfitter/sporting goods company located on the property). That is open to the public if you're just visiting. That said though, I suppose you could take lessons through the Griffin & Howe training school & get access to their rifle range that way. The lessons are a little rich for my wallet, but if you can afford it... more power to you! They also have a rifle competition in the fall as I remember that is also open to the public. 
    • Central Jersey Pistol & Rifle, Jackson, NJ - 300 yards - you can join. I'm not sure if they have comps though - you can check their schedule. Or perhaps others here know?
    • Cumberland Rifleman, Millville, NJ - 600 yards - can join or attend comps open to the public.

    Depending on where you live, you might want to consider out-of-state ranges, too, in neighboring states: like NY, PA, CT.... because there's really not a ton of longer distance ranges in NJ. If you don't mind a road trip though, there are several ranging out to 1000 yards or more in these other states. I've noticed some of them have deals with local hotels so if you're there for a comp, for instance, you get a really cheap room price. 

    Good luck! Hope you find what you're looking for. 

     

     

     

     

    One caveat on Cumberland Riflemen is that, while it has a very good reputation, it may not be the most convenient range to join, unless you already know someone who is a member. New members are inducted once per year (late September or early October iirc) and are accepted only if sponsored by current members. Before I got rid of my .50 BMG, I had wanted to join to take advantage of the 600 yard range there (ntm that it is only a 20 minute drive away). I somehow found one of their range instructors on another forum. I mentioned that I did not know anyone there to sponsor me, and he told me that I should come to some of their social functions to get to know some members. That sounded reasonable, so I pulled up their event calendar, only to discover the events didn't begin until mid-September. So unless someone wanted to go to social events in the Fall of one year to schmooze, and not join until the Fall of the following year, there appeared to be a bit of a Catch-22 for prospective new members who didn't already have connections. I decided that  it probably wasn't worth the trouble, and not long after that, NJ decided to register and tax .50 BMG, so I sold mine.

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    18 hours ago, CMJeepster said:

    Court cuts down Hawaii knife ban in controversial Second Amendment case (msn.com)

    From the 9th Circus, amazingly.

    Hopefully this will someday impact us in the PRNJ.  Some of the banned ones that I have might be able to come across the river from my mother's house in PA.

    While I 100% agree with the case and decision (2nd A specifies "arms", not only "firearms") my first reaction was to wish that resources would currently be focused on firearms, for a number of reasons. However, a little research tuirned up this column from Bearing Arms, which speculates that the decision may help undermine one of the ridiculous analogies that anti-gun forces have raised in court to continue to justify clearly unconstitutional restrctions on AR, etc. under Bruen. If so, that would be a very good thing. 

    Ninth Circuit panel tosses Hawaii's ban on butterfly knives

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    Things have seemed very quiet lately on the NJ post-Bruen front. Judge  Bumb enjoined much of the NJ Anti-Carry bill, then Platkin (et al) got some of those injunctions temporarily overturned on appeal. A good bit of time has now passed, and nothing has been resolved with any degree of permanence. I have heard little or nothing specific in terms of court dates or strategy recently. Anyone here have any verifiable information about this?

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    19 hours ago, mustang69 said:

    I'll support mandatory firearms training when there is a literacy requirement to vote.  Don't misunderstand, I think training is important.  I just don't think it should be required.  The requirements leave too much room for gov't interference in the right itself.

    There is no training, licensing, or registration requirementfor exercising the right articulated in the amendment just before the Second... Why should RTKBA be any more fettered?

    ***New Jersey, where politicians and bureaucrats have elevated incompetence to an art form***

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    16 hours ago, Vdep217 said:

    This is my theory.  During covid everyone got what they wanted at than the bruen decision dropped those who wished to carry got what they wanted and maybe sold off some that they eouldnt carry.  There is this stigma that you can't carry a full sized gun concealed wich is false but I digress.  So right now unless you have a desired carry gun for sale it may be a slow mover.  Ling guns have always been a roll of the dice

    I just wore my 4.1" Ruger SP101 revolver concealed OWB for 2 weeks straight on a trip to Virginia. I have a Falco holster that rides high on my belt, and I can have the gun comfortably hang in the waist recess just in front of my right hip bone so that an untucked T-short completely obscures it, standing or sitting. This was also surprisingly comfortable, I carried this way an average of 12 hours per day, and didn't notice any discomfort at all until near the end of that time. I was carrying that way for 2 days and my wife didn't know until I told her. This was pleasant surprise; I had no expectation it would work until I actually tried it. I had assumed I would need a button-front collared shirt-tail type shirt, worn untucked, to hide the firearm, but the T-shirt turned out to be sufficient. I do need to avoid particularly short hemmed T-shirts to accomplish this, but that is not much of a problem for me.

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    3 hours ago, axeman_g said:

    And this was the antis intention all along.

    I have noticed the increased difficulty people have had selling their pre-owned firearms over the last 6 months or so. Transfer fees being raised definitely slowed down the market, yet it appears the bubble was completely busted by the increase in PPP fees. I would imagine most people are looking at an additional $100 approx. to  purchase a used handgun and transfer it.

    I have a handgun up for sale and have had 1 interested party in a firearm package that is at least $200 undervalued. 

    Anyone care to share their thoughts?   

     

    You might want to check to see what guns.com would offer. If it's too lowball, don't take it. It doesn't require much to solicit a bid from them. I sold two firearms to them in the past year-and-a-half: a .50 BMG single shot sniper rifle when NJ instituted the registration requirement and fee, and a Bond over-and-under derringer in .45 Colt with a spare barrel in .357mag/.38spc after I decided it wouldn't make a very good concealed carry back-up gun. I did take a bit of a hit on both, but nothing I regarded as outrageoous.  If you decide to accept their offer, they make the process very easy to complete.

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    5 hours ago, GrumpyOldRetiree said:

    Thanks for your suggestion. Its not so much that I have a problem with the hard floor, it more relates to the fact that I can't bent my knees. So anytime I have to get on the floor (like cleaning out an under-the-sink trap) I go through a 10 minute ritual of finding a support to lower myself down and then pulling myself back up again.  

    I'm in the same boat as you re knees. The first instructor I went to for qualification (Fred Hauber at Full Metal Jacket: if you take a course from him/them and get screwed over somehow, you can't say I didn't warn you) was following HQC2, which requires timed shooting from a kneeling position/under a barrier at 15 yards. To make matters far worse, the official NJ qualification for retired LEOs had an exception for shooters of 5-shot revolvers (I was using a Ruger SP101 in .357), without which  reloading makes the sequence pretty much impossible to complete in the alloted time, even for someone with healthy kness. In a subsequent conversation about that segment, Hauber told me that he refused to allow that exception because NJ had informed him that it was no longer offered in the "official" HQC2. In the same phone conversation, he happily informed me that FMJ offered a wide selection of semi-auto handguns for sale, with which I should easily be able to complete that segment No possibility that he/they were using (the purported) NJ requirements for a little profiteering there, eh? A few days later, after I made arrangements to take a different qualification course with Dave Cope at Shooters, Hauber left me a VM telling me that he "discovered" that the exception was still valid, and that I should return to FMJ to complete my qualification. I ignored his VM. I left about $300 on the table at FMJ in so doing, but I wanted (and want) nothing further to do with them.

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    12 hours ago, 124gr9mm said:

    I hate all the fighting.

    A lot of it comes down to the need "to be right".  Person X went a particular route so they want to feel like they did it the 'best' way, so they'll attack any other decision.

    In my opinion most of the noise around this is fear-mongering.  The lawyers are dong it as ammunition for their case(s) before Bumb, and the gun shops are using it as an incentive to get people to take training.

    I don't hold it against either of those parties. 

    For those crapping on GFH I'd suggest you simply go somewhere else.  Yes, they charge money, but they seem to offer the most support, classes, and everything else needed for people who want to get a CCW (or just shoot), so they will continue to be a popular option.  The fact that members there get a discount on classes (and FREE re-qual classes) indicates that they value their customer base.  I don't shoot at public ranges very often, but when I do GFH is typically my first choice.

    For various reasons I went to a different range for my qualification.  The qual was done by a retired State Trooper and the sheet I received indicates that I passed with minimum score of 80%, and that I received use of force instruction.  If there is no change to the legislation and I need to provide something to my local PD by October 1, I'll give them a copy of the original qual sheet.  It meets the requirements.

    The rest of the infighting doesn't help anything.

     

    Generally agree with your points, with one significant caveat. The same range owners/operators who are making a good buck by satisfying whatever egregious training regime NJ comes up with also typically like to portray themselves as uncompromising 2A advocates. Sorry, but there is an inherent conflict there - they cannot be both simultaneously.

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  15. Posted

    12 hours ago, TuscanRaider said:

    I took my training Oct 21 last year. Got my permit in mid Jan…..it already qualifies so I don’t need to go again. Interestingly enough you can renew 4 months early, and if you’ve qualified in the past two years you don’t need to go again.  So if I time it right my qualifications from last year will STILL be good for my renewal next year :)

    Renew by paper, or are they actually getting this into the electronic system? Because if it's on paper, we will again be at the mercy of the Authoritae regarding processing delays.

  16. Posted

    7 hours ago, ALAN553 said:

    Did you know that up to  yesterday there were only 2 states left in these "ununited" states that refused to let you pump your own gas, Oregon and NJ...now there is only one....If they don't trust you to pump your own gas without killing someone...do you really think they are interested in letting you carry a gun?  Legislators must really think we are stupid....

    "...Legislators must really think we are stupid..."

    Depending on who you include in your collective pronoun "we", I think NJ legislators may have damned good evidence of the validity of that premise. After all, who voted those asswit dimholes into office?

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  18. Posted

    FWIW, Nappen is holding a seminar on the new requirements at Range 609 in Rio Grande (Cape May county) on Sunday, 8/13. While I am not going to take everything said as gospel, it is free for US LawShield members ($10 otherwise) and I can justify investing 3 hours on a Sunday to hear what Nappen has to say. It is sponsored by a training outfit called "Best Shot" and I have absolutely no doubt that they hope to use it to hard sell additional training that they will claim is needed to meet the new requirements, but that doesn't faze me. I have never had much trouble telling an aggressive sales person to "take a flying f*ck at a rolling donut"... https://texaslawshield.secure.force.com/pmtx/evt__QuickEvent?id=a2z6e00000bJd3G

  19. Posted

    Yep. I believe the increase was included with the NJ bill (A4769?) that feebly attempted to resurrect NJ's unconstitutional efforts to deny PtC by distorting the requirements of the Bruen decision. If not, it was an administrative rule change that occured at about the same time. A case could absolutely be made that it discriminates against poorer people, but it pales in comparison with the total cost of obtaining and maintaining the NJ PtC itself, which may be on the order of $1000 per year (if not more). See this thread for more info:        

     

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  20. Posted

    17 hours ago, Scorpio64 said:

    The search string is too short.  If you use a modifier like NRA AND membership or "NRA membership" , you will get pages of results.

    OK, that makes sense. Is the length requirement documented anywhere that can easily be found from the search bar? If not, I suggest that it would be a good idea to do so. Alternatively, such a search could produce an error message similar to: "Your search produced too many results to display. Please narrow your search by providing additional criteria" which could be perfectly illustrated by giving your examples.

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    5 minutes ago, Scorpio64 said:

    It is extremely rare that entire threads are killed for any reason and even less likely that NJGF management is actively quashing NRA related topics.

    The reason you won't find much here is because nobody cares about the NRA outside the membership requirement to join many of the ranges in NJ.

    I'll take your word that there would be no such nefarious intent, but your contention that a search for "NRA" produces no results because no one has mentioned it is implausible, sorry. In that case there probably is some defect in the forum indexing or the search tool itself. This very thread contains the string "NRA" at least a dozen times. It contains "NAGR" once - in your post. Why would that single mention be returned from a search,  but no mentions of "NRA"?

  23. Posted

    On 8/4/2023 at 3:09 PM, Scorpio64 said:

    When I shoot CCI Qs, in my Marlin 25N, the firing pin hitting the cartridge is louder than the report.  I'd say they are so quiet, that if a lawnmower was in use nearby, I doubt you'd ever hear the shot.

    Interesting. Maybe I'll buy a box, borrow my son's Ruger 10/22, and save myself a few bucks and a long car ride. Also prompted another thought - the groundhog burrow is right next to where I keep my mower (which is missing the muffler) - no reason why that couldn't be running at the time.

  24. Posted

    5 hours ago, Tunaman said:

    Just be aware of any town ordinances on the discharge of firearms.  If someone sees or hears you shoot,  whether it be a .22 or an air rifle you could be in trouble and lose your gun rights forever.

    I did a pretty thorough search, and my township code seems to lack any mention of "firearm", "rifle", or "handgun", and the only references to "discharge" appear to be in the context of sewage, so I don't anticipate an issue there. NTM that the only neighbor likely to observe anything has a farm, and previously had a groundhog problem herself (she elected to use the Great Pyrenees solution).

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