Bob2222

I'm also not sure about the tinfoil hats. I don't know how they can write a law that bans autoloaders like the AR without banning autoloaders like the 1911 and Browning shotgun. Listing "evil features" hasn't done what they wanted. And I really believe that Feinstein would like to ban anything more advanced than the rifle that Hawkeye carried in "The Last of the Mohicans", just as long as she can have her own security guards equipped with MP5s. November proved that you really can fool all of the people all of the time, and the politicians' responses to this scare the willies out of me. I'm not at all confident that Boehner won't just bend over about this, too.

Interesting to watch Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) expound on the need for gun control. The man needed to undergo surgery to control his weight. He can't even control what he puts into his own mouth and he wants to control the rest of us? Between 100,000 and 400,000 Americans die from obesity every year. Nobody mentions "food control". Food subsidies and the availability of limitless quantities to everyone everywhere is a matter of public policy. Obesity, lack of exercise and smoking cause a huge number of deaths each year. The number of deaths from all firearms, never mind from "assault weapons", is tiny in comparison. As a dad, it had an effect on ME, but I've never been sociopathic enough to cage my opinions enough to be elected to anything. Or ever had the desire. Chicago is supposedly on track for a new record number of homicides -- the total was up to 480 at the end of November. Zero Hedge on "drone control" --> http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-16/guest-post-gun-control-no-drone-control Why no tears for the Chicago and Pakistani children? I'd look at trying to solve the problem, not use it as the means to a political end. Why have a number of obviously mentally ill individuals been murdering innocent people of late? Why were they not receiving effective treatment or housed in mental institutions?

Connecticut, like New Jersey and many/most of the large blue states, already HAS an assault weapons ban so the Bushmaster must have been a "compliant" AR version to be legally sold in the state. So what the 'rats might have in mind is scary -- are they going to try to ban all auto loaders? Revolvers? I don't think for a minute that Obama's tears are real. Not just because this happens in Chicago on a regular basis, but because he's been personally responsible for the deaths of schoolchildren, in Pakistan, by drone attacks and hasn't stopped partying for a minute. This is about controlling the masses. Mass murder seems VERY much out of character for an individual with Asperger's syndrome -- I'm now wondering if he recently had a medication change of some sort. I see Sandy Hook -- and the other recent mass murders -- as a mental health issue, not a firearms issue, and I'm probably in a small minority.

I hate it, too. The last couple of Hondas we bought through Costco. No muss. No fuss. Needed to go in to the dealer with a check but it didn't take all that long. The best cars in the world are built right here in the USA. Toyota. Honda. Now Hyundai. The highest US content of any car last year was the Toyota Camry.

I could be wrong, but at the age of age 20, I don't think that he could have purchased a handgun legally anywhere in the US. The Bushmaster rifle is possible -- but he seems to have been so obviously crazy that a purchase should have raised eyebrows at most gun stores. I doubt it, though. He seems to have been too awkward to have gone through the process, if he wouldn't even sit for his HS yearbook picture. Possibly a "straw purchase" -- but then mom must have been pretty crazy herself to buy guns for a mentally ill kid -- or maybe they had been his dad's. The guy should have been institutionalized because he was dangerous to himself and to others. Obviously. Community mental health care has been a dismal failure for almost 50 years now, as demonstrated by most if not all of the mass murders over the last few years. As for a prized Ruger (or any heirloom) -- why not just disassemble it, give the ammo away, and put a couple of critical components away in a safe deposit box? A nonfunctional firearm with no ammunition is pretty safe. (Just remember where you put all the pieces! My BIL did this when he had young kids -- and then forgot where he hid some of the parts!)

I've used Macs since 1989. My desktop is a Mac Pro; my "on the road" work computer is a 15" Macbook Pro and I just bought my wife a 13.3" Macbook Air for Christmas/birthday (I haven't decided --- but they're 2 days apart). Wife thought she wanted an iPad to read her e-mails while multitasking -- and then started talking about how she could get a keyboard for the iPad ... in effect, she wanted to reinvent the laptop. I thought the Macbook Air was a better idea. She really will use it on her lap, which is hard on conventional spinning hard drives. The Air's flash storage might hold up better. My 15" Macbook Pro replaced an old 12" Powerbook G4. Nothing wrong with the Powerbook for what I needed it for -- except the screen was getting too small for my old eyes. As noted above, the 17" might be better if your eyes are old enough. Suggest visiting an Apple Store if there's one nearby you and trying them out. -Bob

I've used them and I was happy with the results.

As long as Christie is Governor, I doubt anything like this will get signed into law. Of course, Christie probably isn't going to be Governor forever. I believe that one of the reasons for the resurgence of interest in the .45 ACP round was the magazine limits in the original AWB. So instead of many smaller bullets, Congress legislated fewer but larger bullets. Since the general operating philosophy of our NJ legislators and Congress is that "a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part", I've purchased a few extra 10-round mags for everything years ago. (They're usually pretty cheap.) I'm sure my cousin in Texas will be very happy if he receives a package of >10 round mags in the mail someday!

I use Pro Vovo in Freehold. I have a '98 with 188k and the original clutch. They've taken pretty good care of it over the years.

World oil transit chokepoints -- in addition to the Suez Canal and SUMED pipeline: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/world_oil_transit_chokepoints/background.html They're mostly places that you don't want to go unless you're being paid. A lot.

"Approximately 4.5 million b/d flows through the Suez Canal (1.4 million b/d) and Sumed pipeline (3.1 million b/d), or about 5% of global oil" The oil should mostly end up in Europe -- I don't think we get too much of that oil here in the USA -- although of course a price spike is a worry for us. Supply is more of a worry to southern Europe. The transportation costs to Europe would rise if they need to ship it around the Cape. I wouldn't worry too much about freezing in the dark here. Just about paying the bill.

My guess is that they have some cash flow problems! We purchased several firearms from them near the peak of the post-2008 election panic. They were awfully slow but (eventually) delivered exactly what they promised. Phil was very helpful, but the last I heard -- from them -- he wasn't there any more. Sorry to hear that they're still having issues, or that it's gotten worse.

If you need to go to Camden because you work there -- and I know it's even more "politically incorrect" than CCW in New Jersey -- but have you considered a "large" SUV? You can probably do more damage to a bad guy with one than with a handgun. We haven't been to the Aquarium in at least ten years. I think we'll wait until the whole city is razed before we go again.

That's what I read, too -- "firearm and/or ammunition sales are permitted from your location." What if no firearms sales or ammo sales are involved at the smith's shop? If said friend owns a machine shop, in an area zoned for machine shops, and you wanted, say, a lower tapped and threaded for a screw, is it illegal to have the work done? What about plating or refinishing? Most smiths don't have the capability do that. Where does the gun go? Nappen has said NJ's laws often contradict one another. He seems to make a decent living from all this.

Does NJ license gunsmiths? That is, if the smith doesn't sell either firearms or ammunition from his shop -- that would require licensing. The NJSP website seems vague about this detail.

1.) I don't see why he couldn't have applied for a FPID card at the same time as he was moving boxes in through his front door. But either way it's not required to own a firearm, just to purchase a long gun or pistol ammo. (It also works as a form of ID for renewing a NJ driver's license!) 2.) If he had high capacity magazines, he should have destroyed or disposed of them before setting foot in the state.

me: But it says they are perfectly legal on YOUR website! http://www.state.nj.us/njsp/about/fire_hollow.html police: Then why are you calling me?

It's been used longer than that. I think the NJSP first started using them maybe 10 years ago, then the NJSC threw out all laser tickets because they weren't adequately trained and the technology wasn't validated. A few years later they had gotten trained and validated the technology and started using laser again, maybe 7-8 years ago. I received my last ticket from a LIDAR trap right before the 2004 election. So it's been more than 6 years. This may be going too far into the minutiae of electronic countermeasures, but there was a laser jammer manufactured about 10 years ago that was powerful enough that it could be argued that it might be hazardous. AFAIK it was never proven to be hazardous, but it was powerful enough to do very strange things to police laser guns. Subsequent models from the manufacturer were toned down. The designer is dead now (nothing to to with the jammers!), and the company was sold and moved to Europe, so it's unlikely that you'll ever see one. All newer laser jammers are so weak that there really isn't any serious hazard. If there were, the FDA would quickly shut the manufacturer down. One nice thing about LIDAR is that it isn't accurate when used through glass. The LEOs need to either stand outside their cars or shoot through an open window. As the weather gets colder and nasty, the chances of getting hit by LIDAR diminish -- until Spring comes and than it starts all over again!

Laser jammers are covered under the CFR and fall under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, just like laser sights and laser bore sighters. http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=1040.10 They are not illegal in NJ, but please don't tell your state representative about them, because the next time we have a Bolshevik governor, they might be! Most Lidar guns give specific error codes when they're jammed now, so the LEO is aware of what's happening.

Ditto. We lived in Wisconsin before we moved back to New Jersey. (Don't ask me why.) Papers? For a gun? What papers? I did take the challenge and managed to locate the pink copies for the pistols I've purchased here.