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  1. Posted

    On 1/11/2023 at 8:36 PM, Displaced Texan said:

    Useless crap bills that have no chance whatsoever of becoming a law. 
     

    Dog and pony show. 

     

    12 hours ago, JackDaWack said:

    They want a consumption tax aka sales tax.. but that means everyone has to pay some taxes and we can't have that!

    Many countries do okay with no income taxes and just have a value added tax (VAT). You spend more money, you pay more taxes.  

    Our current system, according to one statistic I saw some time ago, results in only about a half of Americans paying income taxes.  Most of those people are below poverty level.  A few are billionaires that take advantage of our complex tax laws.

    In defense of the billionaires, I remember something I heard years ago.  Have you ever heard of a poor man creating jobs?

    I've never created a job for anyone.  Billionaires have created 1000s.  That's Trump or Bill Gates.

    OTOH, perhaps a VAT should be explored. I believe that the tax burden will still be carried by the middle class in any case.

  2. Posted

    I think too much is put into "a gun that fits my hand". I know a LE firearms instructor who's trained 1000s of new LEOs, most of which never shot a gun before.  He believed, as I do, you can learn to shoot a gun well that has a grip like a 2x4 if you work at it.

    Keep in mind, many LEOs are required to carry what their agency says they can carry. For me it was a double stack 9mm for over 20 years.  The agency eventually came up with a single stack option.  When I retired there was exactly one agent out of a couple of hundred who opted for the single stack.

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  4. Posted

    11 hours ago, Lawnmower2021 said:

    This is one of the most dangerous things about anti-gun rhetoric. Anyone else recall when Chicago PD literally recommended people just give in to muggers' demands to be left alone?

    You can't bank on what a wicked person wouldn't do. Normal people don't shoot people for no reason, but they also don't rob at gunpoint.

    As far as shooting when he did... consider this:

    1. It's survival. Shooting in the back isn't honorable, but neither is blinding someone with a flashlight. The goal is to not die.

    2. The cone of fire was actually further away from the other patrons at that moment, so it was better for everyone else.

     

    We also can neither assume he is a "good guy" for stopping the robber nor can we assume he is a "bad guy" for leaving before the police showed up. All we can do is learn and understand to best prepare for the possibility.

    Once again, there was a threat to everyone there.  The good guy shot the bad guy in the back was honorable.

    LE agencies have different rules of engagement on different levels.  Last I knew NJ agencies almost had to spot the bad guy the first shot if the gun wasn't pointed at them. I know Federal agencies who had the policy if the bad guy had a gun in his hand, not pointed at you, you said drop it and they didn't do it in a microsecond, you shot him.  This info is dated.

    Giving a bad guy a chance to drop the gun when people are in jeopardy will only result in someone getting hurt or killed.

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  5. Posted

    On 1/10/2023 at 8:38 PM, dilbert1967 said:

    Strange how this topic came up today.  I was doing some cleaning yesterday and came across two C-rations of "Ham and Eggs"  from 1983 when I was in basic training.  I opened one and tried it, it tasted fine.  And no, the eggs weren't green.;)

    1983 was during the conversion period from Cs to MREs. Ham and eggs were one of my favorites. Moreso if they were warmed up.  Warming them up in hot water was the best way.

    Your, at least, 39 year old C rats sure beats my 25 year old C rats.

    C rat ham and eggs were never green.  Powdered eggs from B rats were green.  B rats were everything was canned but prepared by the mess section.  I loved powdered eggs! Haven't had them since the 70s.

    I still like Spam which also came in B rats. 5lb loaves.  The Vietnam War was responsible for the Vietnamese acquiring a taste for Spam.  My brother recently spent 5 years in Saigon.  Sent me a photo from a store in Saigon. Yes, officially its Ho Chi Minh City but everyone in the south call it Saigon.   The airline baggage tag is still SGN.  Anyway, the only thing in the store with security tags were the cans of Spam!!!

     

  7. Posted

    3 hours ago, JohnnyB said:

    I went through the dates of all the canned food in my SHTF stash and 3/4 of it expired within the past year. I checked online with the FDA and many other non-governmental (trustworthy) sites and they all agree, do not throw it away!  Canned foods may start to lose flavor but the contents are still safe to eat for years!  The only thing I found was that more acidic canned foods tend to go down hill faster. Sauerkraut gets a bit darker in color but I threw it away.  I moved all the expired stuff to another shelf for if we get desperate. Canned foods where the can is not dented or rusted will last indefinitely. Even if taste is effected, it will still be edible and nutritious.

    Frozen food sealed well or vacuum sealed and stored at or below zero lasts forever!

    The best by dates are not ordered by law. The manufacturers put them on there hoping you will toss them early and buy more! I was actually a good friend of a doctor who swore that canned food did not go bad. He had several cases of #10 cans of creamed chipped beef just a few years ago and was still eating it regularly....The cans expired in 1994!  He threw a fit when his daughter found them and made him throw them away!:bad:

     

    2 hours ago, gleninjersey said:

    @JohnnyB Just start eating the "expired" cans first and replenish as needed.

    I've heard of people eating canned food from WWII and not getting ill.  I've found two year old frozen ground beef at the bottom of a chest freezer.  Made it into Polynesian meat loaf and some tacos!  Everyone survived!!  

    As yous said, if cans aren't dented or rusted they should be good.  Frozen food last a LONG time as well as long as not freezer burned.  Just losses some of it's taste.

    I had canned C Rations in the late 60s thar had Lucky Strikes in a green pack.  Lucky Strike stopped making the green pack in 1942.  These Rations were at least 45 years old.

    I'm not dead!!!

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  8. Posted

    20 minutes ago, ESB said:

    That's a plus and a minus for condensed.  Yeah, you need water and if a SHTF situation water might be hard to come by.  But you should have a plan for water.  On the other hand condensed takes up a lot less space and is cheaper which is probably the 2 biggest factors in stock piling.  They are also lighter in case you want to throw them in a backpack.  

     

    If you buy the condensed get the Chicken Noodle.  More calories than the Tomato.

    Never tried the condensed soup (other than the minestrone) without water.  I'm sure it wouldn't kill me to eat a can of Chicken Noodle without water in it!!!

  9. Posted

    5 hours ago, ESB said:

    Campbell's Condensed is 10 for $10.  

     

    4 hours ago, Mr.Stu said:

    I did the weekly shop today. Came away with 40 cans of soup, 20 cans of tuna, and 24 cans of various beans. I need more storage shelf space in my basement.

    Each can of soup gives you a meal.  The Campbell's requires water, the Progresso doesn't.

    However don't dismiss the condensed soup. One of my favorite things in Vietnam was when my Mother would send Campbell's Minestrone.  I ate it straight from the can!!!

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  10. Posted

    6 minutes ago, 45Doll said:

    The description of the whole incident with sound (but not video) is that after the citizen shot the robber, as he was apparently leaving, in the back (once, twice, maybe even three times) after he hit the floor he continued to shoot him, for a total of nine shots.

    I think the citizen is going to have a problem. Even in Texas.

    Now I can't tell from the video (but it looks bad for the shooter) but I always taught to shoot until the threat is neutralized.  Just because a bad guy is down doesn't mean he still isn't a threat.

    I have questions about those last few shots.  No problem shooting him in the back when he did.

    Someone mentioned the shooter didn't give him a "drop the gun" command.  In what was in the video the shooter may have been dead if he did this.  Shooting a bad guy in the back is not universally the wrong thing to do.

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  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Cheflife15 said:

    I did find it kind of weird how nonchalant he was.  Guy took a life,  grabbed his stuff,  and left.  

    I guess just shock and adrenaline?

     

    1 hour ago, Displaced Texan said:

    Or like it wasn’t his first time 

    Probably not shock and adrenaline.

    Whilst most of us on this forum have no experience with this (thank God)  one needs to understand there are plenty of good people who can kill a bad guy then go home to play with their kids.

    I've been trained by a few of them.  I'm not a Sniper, special operator or anything like that.  I've only had the benefit of being trained by the best men of my time.  In the military and as a LEO.  They might seem nonchalant about having to kill someone.  That's not the case.  They were good guys who had to kill bad guys.  Then they could home play with their kids, have dinner with their families, make love to their wife and it doesn't bother them they killed a bad guy a few hours before.

    These guys who are true gunfighters are not nuts.  They knew what had to be done and did it for the benefit of our society.

    All of them said it was more a matter.of mindset than shooting skills when they trained snipers.

    These are the people Winston Churchill was talking about when he said,

    "We sleep safely at night because rough men are ready to visit violence on those that would harm us".

    Not sure if this guy fits in that category.

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  12. Posted

    On 12/23/2022 at 8:56 AM, samiam said:

    As I have stated before, some way must be found to make the legislators, administration officials, and any other NJ employees who have taken an oath to defend the Consitutions of the US and of NJ, personally liable for the ongoing blatant efforts to rescind our Constitutional rights, whether that involves filing lawsuits against some of these wannabe tyrants personally, or filing criminal complaints against them based on the idea that NJ Statute Title 42 includes intential violations of those oaths in the definition of perjury. Until at least a few of these assclowns are made to pay for their arrogant stupidity by sacrificing their own property or freedom, not a damned thing will change in this state. And no, I am not at all willing to absolve any NJ employee who has taken such an oath freedom from such scrutiny on the basis that the employee was "just doing his or her job."  If your job requires intentionally infringing the indisputable rights of others, and you are not wlling to be held fully accountable for that infringement, resign!

    Okay, that's not going to happen.  Legislators, judges, the Governor, and others have qualified immunity.

    Before you fluff this off, if certain offices didn't have immunity who would take those jobs.

  14. Posted

    I have been carrying a gun for almost 50 years.  Over 30 years as a LEO.

    I know all this stuff is new to most of you.  There will be 1000 encounters for each one you needed to pull a gun.

    Get a Kimber Pepper Blaster. Legal in NJ and NY. In NY you have to say you bought it there.

    FWIW for all of you who think cops are trigger happy.  A cop, because of the training, will recognize a lethal force encounter before a civilian.  For those naysayers Google police. Yes they are not civilians.

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  15. Posted

    You only need a silencer (look at the original patent application before you tell me it's a suppressor) if you're intending to whack someone.  The Mossad has done great with Beretta M70s.

    BTW, the problem with Berettas with tip up barrels presents a totally alien immediate action drill.  If you get a failure to extract and you pull back the slide you'll most likely wind up pulling the slide off the frame.  You need to tip up the barrel, shake or pull the failure to extract from the chamber.

    As far as caliber I feel confident with my German 32 PPK.  Hey it was good enough for James Bond!!! Some forum members have shot that pistol.

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  16. Posted

    On 12/25/2022 at 7:32 AM, maintenanceguy said:

    You're right, there is no extractor.  Just a pin that protrudes through when the slide is in the rear position.  This pokes one side of the case and flips it out of the way - but it doesn't always work.

     

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    That's the ejector. If you have that much brass on the breech, it's not clean.

    I have a 21A for over 20 years.  After a break in it works almost 100% on MiniMags.

    Okay I said almost 100%.  The first 100 rds run a 100%.  The next 100 rds will have 5-6 failures to extract. If it doesn't extract the ejector will do no.good. I attribute this to getting dirty.  This is not a Glock.  Clean it after shooting if you want to carry it for social purposes.  I have no issue carrying it after cleaning. I've carried this or a 950 in 25 ACP.  I had a Walther TPH that would only give 50% reliability in the DA mode. A 21A will go off in DA. Not a SD gun IMO by choice but I have a story where it worked well.  Ask me and I'll tell.

    Now I'll carry a mouse gun as my only SD. That's due to a variety of issues.  However, I saw a video where a guy called mouse guns GTF off of me guns. If you pump 6 or 7 rds of 22s, 22lr, or 25 ACP into a target they're going to feel it.

    So if you intend to carry a 21A make sure it's clean.  I carry Mini Mags solids. You need the penetration in a mouse gun. A 22lr hollowpoint penetrates as much as a 22s. A solid does better

    Remember, most encounters will require LTL. I carry a Kimber Pepper Blaster. Legal in NJ and NY. Although you have to swear it was bought in NY.

    So if you're carrying a 21A make sure it's clean and loaded with solids.

    WTF do I know.  I've only been carrying guns for almost 50 years. Been a firearms instructor for almost 48.

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  17. Posted

    6 hours ago, 1LtCAP said:

    if both keys are gone, and one of those was the master/main key, then the stealership is gonna be your best bet. they can use the vehicles VIN(i believe) to make you a new main key.

     yes, you are correct, transponder key too. 

     

     i copuld be wrong, but don't think i am.

    Just asking @1LTCAP couldn't a locksmith make a key from a VIN?

  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, Displaced Texan said:

    Eh, I used to be overly concerned about printing. Not so much any more. MOST people won’t notice. 
     

    I was once told by a very smart man, who has CCW for a long time…”dress around the gun”. 
     

    He wasn’t wrong. 

    TttTThaHaFWIW I've been carrying for almost 50 years. IWB,  belt holster, whatever. I've concealed full size 1911s, 4" Service revolvers, and everything else under a tshirt.

    See @Displaced Texan post. He has the answer.

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  23. Posted

    On 12/6/2022 at 10:46 PM, 1LtCAP said:

    didn't mr nappen come up in a thread in here, and it was mentioned that he charged something like 10k retainer?

    i just picked up a us lawshield flyer at bobs........looked good, and i came in here looking for advice on them. seems this thread is a pretty good indicator on them..........one question............probably need them to answer this one....but i see a place for a cc number....can't pay by check though? if doing yearly?

    Credit card means they can automatically renew.  Not a bad thing in this case.

  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, Krdshrk said:

    2 eggs, 2 pieces of bacon, 3 slices of American cheese, and yes, 4 slices of pork roll.  I didn't have any rolls so white toast was what I went with. 

    I would go with 2 slices of Taylor Ham.  Don't want to overpower the taste of the bacon and sausage.

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