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  1. Posted

    I own BMWs and have been pulled over my share of times...usually for 10-15 over in locations where the speed limit SHOULD be higher.  In other words, I don't speed in residential areas.

     

    Needless to say, I have my share of "seatbelt" tickets because:

     

    1) I'm always respectful of the officer.

    2) I never try to deny what I've been doing.

    3) I don't have a radar detector and make sure to point that out.

     

    Whatever detector you get, it better be completely stealth or it may work to your disadvantage.  All you guys mounting V1's in plain sight...well, you might as well put a bumper sticker on your car that says "I speed excessively and try to get away with it.  Please give me a ticket".

  2. Posted

    So my wife and I have drafted a five year plan to move the hell out of NJ. I've had enough of this walking on eggshells and jumping through hoops just to have permission to exercise a constitutional right. I have lived my entire life in this state and love it dearly, but I give up. Abandon ship.

     

    Interesting that you picked five years. I concluded this weekend that was my timeframe as well.

     

    With the exception of going to college out of state I've lived in NJ my entire life. Several generations of my family have lived here. So while I do have family in other states I actually hate the thought of leaving NJ but I'm fed up with the anti-gunners, the ridiculous cost of living and the ever increasing effects of overpopulation, the NIMBYs, etc. I've had enough. Frankly, even CCW wouldn't be enough to keep me here at this point. Like others I'm stuck here because of a job, but as soon as I can find property elsewhere I'm buying. NH or the Carolinas are looking better and better every day. I sent a letter to Christie telling him as much and received a cookie-cutter politician's response today.

     

    Will the last liberal paying all the bills in this state please turn out the lights before they leave?

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    My only fear, Nick... is that many people just don't want to fight... many people today are just spoiled and used to things coming to them easily.

     

    I think 'complacent' is a better term to describe most of the people in this country. It's been only 65 years since the end of WWII, yet we as a people have forgotten that America is nothing special and it CAN happen here. I remember growing up hearing my history teachers tell us that democracies are relatively short lived, in historical terms, and that America had one of the oldest in recorded history. Little did I know at the time that I would eventually come to interpret this not as just some abstract historical fact but as a warning.

     

    The anti-gun movement is one step on a long road toward socialism and totalitarianism, and the biggest slap in the face is that the anti-gunners don't even realize they're being played by the mainstream media and the wealthy interests that own it, and are sowing the seeds of their own enslavement. I think they'll wake up eventually -- probably right after the government starts breaking into homes in the middle of the night to take the dissenters away, never to be seen again -- but by then it will be too late. The people will have been stripped of any remaining ability to revolt in a meaningful way, and our civilization will enter another dark age ruled by the new aristocracy.

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    If you aren't spending every free moment writing each and every one of your representatives here in NJ and in Washington, including the Governor (and for all the good it will do) the President himself, you're part of the problem.

     

    Rest assured, nonsensical crap this could happen here too if we don't send the message that this is unacceptable:

     

    http://news.yahoo.com/ny-seals-1st-state-gun-laws-since-newtown-074653716.html

  6. Posted

    Jackson always quotes 6-8 weeks. Reality is 4-5 months. After the background checks, etc. it goes to the Chief's office and there it typically sits until the chief feels like signing. Last time I called around the three month mark and was told that it was just delivered to the Chief. When four months rolled around, I emailed the Mayor's office and complained. Got a call the next day to come pick it up.

     

    For what it's worth, the people processing the paperwork, referrals, etc. are pleasant to deal with and will tell you straight up what's going on -- it's just that the entire process is too damn complicated and time consuming. And it doesn't help that the Chief, who I'm sure is a busy guy, has to deal with all of these BS applications. But good luck getting this state to take a simple "fill out a form, pass a NICs check, sign card with the Chief's signature stamp" approach to firearms licensing. You can thank the liberals in Trenton for this crap.

  7. Posted

    I agree with LorenzoS...no fear ordering ammo online, provided you don't try to order AP, tracers, or anything else verboten in the PRNJ. Prices are almost always better.

     

    I've ordered twice from ammunitiontogo so far with no problems. Their website is easy to use and they provide regular order updates when things ship, etc. If they have what you're looking for, I don't think you can go wrong with them. And no -- I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Just a customer.

  8. Posted

    NJ politicians are the ones screwing us the PD's are just following the laws set in place.Or at least most are, jackson PD hates gun owners im going on 6 months for 3 pistol permits.

     

    Email the Mayor's office and complain. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. I was going on four months last time and I called them on it. Got a call to pick it up the next day. I'm convinced they sit on permits because they consider them a low priority. How do I know? When I gave the clerk my form with an updated address, the clerk immediately called records and gave them my new address to enter into the computer. They could do all the necessary checks and laminate a card with a photo in under 15 minutes (the DMV does exactly that)...but they'd rather make it a hassle to discourage people from having guns...which is all part of the agenda of the liberal mafioso that controls the legislature. Remember their motto "We're not happy until you're living your life the way we want you to live it".

     

    In any case, nice to see the OP lives in a slightly less communist version of NJ.

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    Sure. I'll make up a list and post it for everyone. I already have a few ideas how to make it better. Maybe I will sell this one and make another for myself.

     

    I would produce some of these for people who don't have the tools to make them. I do have to perfect a drum at this point though.

     

    Thanks. I'm hoping to teach myself how to weld (mig/tig) over the winter and this would be a great first project...largely because the tolerances aren't exactly critical.

  10. Posted

    To clarify, I'm not concerned about whether the equipment is typically covered on policies...I already know that, at least on my policy, firearms and such must be declared if you go above some stupidly small value. I expect that reloading equipment or any other kind of specialized equipment that wouldn't necessarily be found in an average household would NOT be covered unless itemized. The question is whether anyone has called up their insurance company to add coverage for their reloading equipment and been told "take a hike" for whatever reason.

     

    The author of the thread I read seemed to suggest that the insurance company had more of a philosophical problem with the fact that he was creating ammunition rather than doing something that would invalidate the policy (creating a fire hazard, etc.). But the end result would be the same in either case: no coverage.

  12. Posted

    Did a search here for "reloading" and "insurance" and came up with nada.

     

    Anyone ever have any problems with homeowner's or renter's policies knowing that you reload? I don't know where I read it, but I seem to recall someone saying that State Farm dropped them like a bad habit after they were informed that the owner was into reloading. Considering that reloading gear can easily reach into the thousands, it would be nice to know it's covered.

  16. Posted

    By "your primer pockets will thank you", do you mean that I'll be able to get more reloads out of the case before the pockets loosen up too much? If so, I'm okay with that, and I certainly don't want to add any more steps than necessary to the process. In fact, this is one of the reasons I'm considering the 1050...while the separate Dillon swager works, I can't imagine wanting to do all that manual labor if the press will do it for me.

  17. Posted

    New to reloading and I'm trying to sort out how I'll go about processing brass. Even some pistol brass is coming with crimped primer pockets lately so I got to thinking...is it better to swage the primer pocket (a la Dillon 600 or 1050 built-in) which seems to just smash the crimp down vs. reaming the pocket, with, say, a Hornady reaming tool, to remove the extra metal entirely?

     

    Seems to me it would be better to ream if only because it won't cause any distortion of the case and since the Hornady reaming tool also puts a slight chamfer on the edge of the pocket, priming should be easier.

     

    Thoughts?

  18. Posted

    I've been researching reloading equipment lately and am set on I want to buy.

     

    I had no power for a bit over 30 hours this weekend, and my whole life revolves around power this or Internet that, so I was sitting on my couch reading a book (how quaint!) part bored and part frustrated. And all I could think was "hey, reloading doesn't require power...if only I had my reloading equipment I could be pushing out a couple cases of .45 right now!"

     

    I'm thinking about reloading and I'm not even reloading yet. Now that's hardcore! :)

     

    On a side note...have you guys ever heard of anyone using larger qty's (say, 10-15 lbs) of stainless media in a small concrete mixer to do large batches? The tumblers often sold with stainless media seem to be a bit on the small side.

  21. Posted

    Are you talking about the Dillon primer tube feeder that loads the tubes automatically or is there something else you have seen?

     

    That looks cool, but that's not it. The thing I saw (in a video...which is what makes it virtually impossible to find anything via a traditional search engine) looked like a KISS bullet feeder (about that size). In fact, I thought it WAS a bullet feeder until I noticed at least a couple hundred primers rotating around in there.

  22. Posted

    No...that's what I'd call a "manual" primer feeder because you have to put the primers in, shake them to "right" them, etc. The device I'm talking about worked like a bullet feeder -- just throw boxes of primers into the unit and turn it on. Unit presumably ran until the primer tube was full and kept it that way as long as you had primers in the hopper.

  23. Posted

    Somewhere I remember seeing an automatic primer feeder for progressive presses that looked a lot like a bullet or case feeder by design (a rotating disk that magically "righted" the primers and threw them down the tube leading to the press). Tried googling to no avail. Anyone have a brand name?

  25. Posted

    I tried searching but this stupid forum software doesn't allow me to search for any word under four characters. And guess what -- "type 06 ffl" won't work.

     

    What I'm trying to figure out is how difficult it is in NJ to get a Type 06 FFL for the manufacture and sale of ammo. Anyone on here gone through the process care to enlighten me?

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