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  1. 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.


  2. 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).


  3. 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.


  4. 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.


  5. 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.


  6. 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.


  7. 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...


  8. 1 minute ago, Downtownv said:

    John is a member on this forum...

     

    Well, if he is reading this thread, I will tell him that I certainly hope his expectation is realized. My own expectation is that Platkin will not remedy the situation unless failing to do so becomes an immediate threat to his political future, and in PRNJ, that is highly unlikely to happen.


  9. On 3/21/2024 at 3:09 PM, Downtownv said:

    By John Petrolino 

    The Attorney General’s office did not comment

    ...

    Article conclusion:

    "we can only speculate that after this topic is fully explored, these illegal denials will be remedied swiftly by Platkin’s office."

    I'm glad I didn't read that while sipping my morning coffee, I might have choked to death. I haven't read this guy Petrolino before, is that supposed to be a joke, or does he live in some kind of fantasy land? Because my impression is that if someone kicked Matt Platkin hard in the jaw, Phil Murphy would become an instant eunuch.


  10. On 3/9/2024 at 2:35 PM, 45Doll said:

    They are, and will be, admitting way more illegal aliens to make up for those of us migrating.

    The U.S. invasion total so far eclipses the populations of 40 of our individual states.

    How will "admitting way more illegal aliens" "make up for us migrating"? Where are the NJ tax revenues going to come from after the productive citizens flee the state? Illegals who are not welcome in their native countries because they either have no skills, or are too idolent to earn a living? From what I'm reading, most of those illegals are on the dole, as well as being protected from the consequences of their frequent criminality. State can't dole out what it doesn't have, and what it does have to give out comes from taxing the likes of you and me. Maybe FedGov would try to increase Federal taxes in the areas the productive citizens are fleeing to, to redistribute to shitholes like the DemonCraps are making of NJ, but that will ultimately meet with a lot of resistance, and cannot be sustained. If they are as criminal as I have been reading, if they don't have us to victimize, they will be assaulting and killing each other. That doesn't make for a viable or stable tax base, either. I don't doubt that TPTB in NJ plan what you claim, but it is a very short-sighted plan, and imo doomed to fail.


  11. On 3/6/2024 at 6:06 PM, Bomber said:

    Thats part of the political calculation.

    Just make things so unpleasant and expensive in democrat run sates and cites people who can leave. With enough of them gone the dems have a free hand  to do pretty much anything with no meaningful political opposition.  

    Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Adams in NY have come right out and said as much.

    WIth enough of us gone, those imbeciles will have no tax base to fund their Fascist shenanigans.


  12. I have a huge, 38-year, accumulation of "stuff" at our home that never gets used, that I'd like to begin getting rid of. We haven't space or parking sufficient to hold a yard sale here. Listing those items individually on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace isn't feasible, there are just too many. There is a fairly large flea market every week-end on Delsea Drive in Vineland. I'm thinking about renting a table a few week-ends this Summer, and dragging some stuff out there using my pickup and a trailer. Nearly all of the transacitons at this market are for cash. It isn't in a horribly bad location for crime, but it isn't the best, either. The market is patrolled by private security, but I don't know how often, or if that outfit is any good. Bottom line is that, if I do this, I would be much more comfortable if I was armed. Does anyone see anything on the current NJ prohibited places list that could be reasonably construed as prohibiting carry at a privately run flea market, provided that there aren't any "No Guns" signs posted?


  13. 2 hours ago, dilbert1967 said:

    Therein lies the problem.  When Anthony opens his radio show, he mentions there are "......over 1 million gun owners" in NJ.  Until people open their eyes and look at the big picture (the 2nd Amendment) and vote accordingly, we will continue to get the same results we have now.  With those numbers, NJ should be at least a purple state instead of deep blue.

    >1 million gun owners - sounds like a lot. But as of the 2021 general election, there were ~6.5 million registered voters in NJ, of which ~2.6 million cast a ballot. So, if 100% of those gun owners were eligible to vote and did so, they would constitute ~15% of registered and ~38% of actual voters (the latter in an off-year). Also, how those voters are distributed can matter a great deal. Down here in South Jersey, we do a reasonably good job of voting Republican, at least as compared to the remainder of this state. There are 40 legislative districts in NJ. I'm not going to waste my time doing numeric analysis of every district, but the average number of residents (2020 census) is 116,181 each, so a majority, on average, would be 60,000. 60,000/1 ,000,000 is just under 17, or ~42% of those districts. So, by either set of numbers, statistically, NJ gun owners could, at most, possibly carry 38 - 40% of the legislature. Obviously, both those analyses are ridiculous oversimplifications, but it does give some indication of the practical maximum limits on the direct electoral influence gun owners can expect to exert in NJ. This is a prime example of why the Founders organized this nation as a Republic, not a direct democracy, and why the Bill of RIghts was enacted. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting for the luncheon entree. Getting more gun owners to vote, and what little honest media remains to take note of that, is a laudible goal, but expecting that to provide some kind of ultimate solution to having our Constitutional rights rescinded by NJ is a forlorn hope.


  14. On 2/23/2024 at 11:14 AM, 45Doll said:

    There's two Athlon ads off YouTube that both auto-play on thread pages. The result is audio that sounds like I'm in an echo chamber. Is this necessary?

    I don't mind ads to support the forum. But IMO auto-play with audio, and especially when it's redundant, is really annoying.

    Please consider stopping that. If I want to know about a product, I'll click on it.

    You could always use NoScript or a similar widget to selectively enable/disable JavaScript in your browser (caveat: don't know if that is possible with an Android phone or Chromebook). I only see video content on web sites if and when I choose to do so.


  15. 23 hours ago, DirtyDigz said:

    https://www.njoag.gov/ag-platkin-finds-microstamping-technology-viable-for-use-in-commercial-firearms-following-live-fire-testing/

     

    Mr. Roldan wouldn't have any financial interest in the very first firearm to be included in the microstamping roster (and the one that all NJ firearms retailers will be required to carry), right? RIGHT!?

    This a colossally stupidity, and one more ridiculous, costly, imposition on NJ firearms dealers that will no doubt cause a few that were already marginally profitable to go under. That said, I don't see anything in the law that requires anyone to purchase such a firearm, the only requirement seems to be on dealers to make one available. Has there (yet) been any legislation introduced or proposed to make this mandatory? Not that I doubt that the assclowns are having wet dreams about doing that, just wondering if any of them have mentioned that aspiration.


  16. On 2/26/2024 at 7:50 AM, oldguysrule649 said:

    OP, perhaps a long shot. I assume you are using a PC to download the doc. Do you normally run any VPN software such as for example Nordvpn? If so, try “pause”ing it or log completely out of it. See if that helps. I have had issues in other (not gun related) situations where it gave me link issues. 

    Yes, that is worth a try, but I'm skeptical it is the problem. If the OP is on a VPN he may also have JavaScript disabled, and should also try enabling that for the site. I am always on a VPN (Proton) with JS completely disabled when browsing. I selectively enable JS permissions (or  disable VPN, as a last resort) until a site or page functions adequately. My experience indicates that any security that bars VPN use is usually in place for an entire domain, not just a single page or document. I have been on both the NJSP.org site and the FARS site using my VPN with no issue, but I did not get to the point of downloading a permit. There is a possibility that the NJ FARS site hands the browsing session off to a third party domain (identogo, or the like) for download of the actual permit document, in which case VPN  (or JS) could be the problem for that site. That has happened to me when placing an online order for an item at a site, which then transfers me to a payment processor (e.g. Square) for providing credit card information. Even if this is so, it in no way excuses the abysmal, irresponsible, buck-passing horseshit that the OP encountered when trying to resolve the issue with NJ "authoratah"  :icon_mad:

    edited to add:  Yesterday, I received an long delayed (a story recounted elsewhere in these forums) email invitation from NJSP FIU to go to the NJPortal site to complete a reference form for a buddy's NJ Permit to Carry application. Actually, I got 2 emaii invitations, one right after the other (morons!) I completed the reference questionnaire while connected via my VPN, FWIW. So if there is any NJSP/NJPortal blocking based on an incoming IP address belonging to a VPN (or on an abuse list, blocking rationales vary) it probably is a third party contractor actually responsible, as speculated above.

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