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As BLF already kind of indicated, there doesn't seem to be for the jury duty itself. That said, if you actually get called to a coutroom or assigned to a case, you may get a judge that chooses to enforce a dress code in their own courtrooms.

Got called for jury duty a few months ago and found myself in the middle of a pretty intolerable state of limbo for almost 3 full days. Arrived on day one & was immediately called to a courtroom along with 100 other people. The second we step into the courtroom, it's explained that no cell phones & laptop use is permitted at any time. Didn't seem like a big deal at first, because I didn't expect to be there long. In the courtroom, judge explains case involves murder charges & is expected to last MONTHS! But I didn't really worry at that point, because I honestly had the utmost confidence I would not be found suitable for the jury, plus I made the mistake of assuming I'd get the opportunity to explain just how distruptive serving on such a trial would be for me [as I had only recently started a new position within my company]. The judge starts off by asking everyone who can't serve because it would cause severe "financial" or other "hardship" to raise their hands. Since that wasn't quite a fit for my own concerns, I didn't raise my hand. Unfortunately, 60 other people DO. Worst of all, the judge interviews everyone individually in her chambers. This takes until 10:30pm on my second day of jury duty! Keep in mind, my service was 3 days or 1 case, and I'm still techically "assigned" to this case until I get specifcally called to the jury & dismissed. Then, finally, we get questionaires that are going to be used to "streamline" the jury assessment process. We spend 4 HOURS going over 60 of the most straightforward questions I've ever seen in my life. Finally, we're done reviewing the questionaire and everyone fills it out. End of day 2, and my sanity is already waning... Start of day 3, they finally call their first set of 12 to the box & I'm number 8. "Good" I figure. I need to be up there to get dismissed in the first palce and I'm essentailly 8th in line to go over my questionaire, right? NOPE. If a juror has any YES answers, the judge calls them into her chambers to discuss it privately. So they'd go to the chambers, go over the yes answer & return to the court. They would NOT go over anything other than the specific "Yes" answer that precipitated the move to the judges chambers, so people would sometimes return to court only to have to go right back to the judges chambers after another "yes" later on in the questionaire. Each time they did this took AT LEAST 30 minutes! On top of that, the majority of the people called were ultimately getting dismissed AND they would replace that juror seat & start again with the person they just called before moving on. They went through 5 people before finally being able to move onto interviewing the 2nd juror, at which point I realized how horribly wrong I was about the benefit of being called 8th. Towards the end of day three I started doing the math & realized that even optimistic assumptions meant it'd be wed of the following week before I'd be interviewed at the rate they were going (meaning I'd have already been out of work for 6 days), when I'd walked in pretty much assuming I'd be out in 1 or 2 days. I also start to genuinely fear a scenario where I don't ultimately get dismissed and actually end up on this case. Finally, in a moment of despiration, I asked a question to the judge in open court that got her attention. A few minutes later, after she was done resolving another matter in her chambers, I was called back. Finally granted a chance to speak to the judge, I pleaded my case, citing the significant opportunity cost the trial would impose on me. I also did my best to present myself as the kind of juror I assume most prosecutors & defense attorneys would generally dismiss, but was in no way dishonest about anything. She then sent me back to sit in my seat. What felt like an hour later, she emerged & said that I was dismissed and it was finally all over. Looking back, I almost sort of have survivors guilt over the whole thing , as I'll bet a decent chuck of those people are still stuck in that courtroom to this very day.

I just reread it all more carefully and it actually does seem that your correct. I'm actually really surprised by that. Shame on me for not researching it more thoroughly, but I had just always assumed all the warnings I heard about transport applied to all firearms, which seemed in line with all of njs usual nonsense.

I don't believe that is the case. Unloaded transport is permited, but not indefinetly. I would recommend you check out vladtepes excellent NJ law summary thread, but the follow is the specific passage that effectively blocks you from simply keeping an unloaded weapon in your vehicle 'just in case': "g. All weapons being transported under paragraph (2) of subsection b., subsection e., or paragraph (1) or (3) of subsection f. of this section shall be carried unloaded and contained in a closed and fastened case, gunbox, securely tied package, or locked in the trunk of the automobile in which it is being transported, and in the course of travel shall include only such deviations as are reasonably necessary under the circumstances."

Really good guy & a pleasure to do a transaction with. Thanks agian.

[Assuming the group buy resulted in appealing pricing] I'd be interested in -9mm -38 Sp -357 -2.23/5.56 -7.62-39 -12 Guage anything -22LR -.308 [Less so than the above though. Don't really shoot this in bulk].

Zero threshold versus verbal threshold. Yes, that will increase what you pay. Kinda figured it went without saying that better coverage options will increase the premium cost as well.

Two things 1) Good people can be a bad "risk" for an insurer. The fact that a car parked in Irvington is more likely to be stolen than a car parked in Madison doesn't have anything to do with the person that owns the car, but it is a factor in the likelyhood the insurance company will pay a theft claim on the vehicle and they can't afford to ignore that difference even if it isn't the owners fault. 2) Insurance companies underwrite based on the average claim behavior of a given group of drivers, not what they expect each specific driver to do (i.e. correlation, but not necessarily causation). It simply would not be feasible to fully investigate each driver with bad credit to differentiate between those with bad luck and those who are run-of-the-mill irresponsible idiots that make bad decisions in general. The latter of the two is a bad risk for obvious reasons and will drag down the average claim history for drivers categorized as having bad credit. It's no different that when 17 year olds are charged more than adults. Not all 17 year olds are idiots, but plenty of them are and no insurance agent can predict which is which. Other reasons those with bad credit can be a riskier driver to insure: -Those with bad credit due to ongoing financial troubles probably won't always get tires/brake pads/etc replaced as often as they should -Those with bad credit will often find their ability to buy or rent a place to live compromised, meaning they may have no choice but to live in more congested areas with hire rates of auto theft/vandalism/etc.

If someone is getting charged a "boatload" for their auto insurance, it's because they are in an elevated risk category [for reasons that may or may not be their own fault]. I.E. They're more likely to suffer an auto accident and be in serious trouble if they do not have adequate insurance coverage.

Most insurance carriers will still actively seek recovery directly from the driver and make their lives a little worse, but you're right that there will usually not be much chance that the funds paid out on your own insurance will ultimately be recovered. Also, I was under the impression that it would still be illegal to drive without the coverages required by law in states such as NJ, which these policies certainly wouldn't provide. No?

One of the worst ideas I've heard in a while. Basically like saying "I pretty much plan to be poor forever". "Fault" is a function of whatever a judge will let a plaintiff attorney get away with. It does not have anything to do with any sense of reason a rational person could follow and is focused solely on shaking the largest settlement out of the deepest available pockets. Assuming that safe driving means you will never end up in the cross hairs of these parisites is no less naive than assuming a house in a rich suburb is inherrently safe and doesn't need to lock it's doors.

I have zero first hand experience with this scope, but I have often seen it descibed as having exceptional value for the price: http://swfa.com/SWFA...scope-P499.aspx

Certainly and, again, I definetly follow the logic. Given that, is it fair to say that it probably isn't worth retreating and increasing the risk of a fall if an encounter occurs in a tight hallway where the only movement available is linear backpeddling? I'm inclined to say 'yes', unless the backwards movement is done slowly & deliberately before any attack has begun, with the intent of increasing the room you have to work with if the threat does ultimately charge. Luckily, I've got simunitions this weekend, so I may just get the chance to see if I'm operating under any potentially fatal assumptions.

Certain logical, but does it perhaps venture into excessive optimism to count on having room to move laterally? All you've got is backwards in a straight line in a significant portion of indoor attacks.

Interesting. What am I looking at on the bottom?

A permanently installed thread protector would make it compliant and safe you the expense of a comp. Would also closely match the diameter of the barrel, although I think it's more complicated than that in most instances where you're changing significan't aspects of the upper.

What would be interesting [and ridiculously expensive] would be running 2,000 rounds through an original milspec 1911, a modern manufacture 'milspec' 1911, a 1911 with common "reliability work", a 1911 with modern 'improvements', a compact 1911 inspired carry gun and a target focused 1911 design. It's be interesting to see which one was able to go the longest without a failure and which one had the most failures overall. Actually, since there is zero chance I could ever afford to actually run such a test, may as well make 5 thousand round trials run ten times with standard cleaning practices done for each in between trials.

Not really. The 1911 guy that writes off all modern designs as plastic toys for posers is a pretty standard message board cliché.

Even if one holds the view that the 1911 represented the most reliable semiautomatic design available at the time of its adoption, it reliability relative to other available options has changed a lot since then. I'm not arguing that it's useless, or that anything definitive is demonstrated by this video, but a decision the army made 101 years ago doesn't have much relevance to how a 1911 compares to glocks, sigs, XDs, CZs, etc.

Plus, Skipio's [or was it Scipio?] palcement on top of the trigger plate put him on the receiving end of some pretty forceful palm strikes. Strategies varied, but all contained some level of imitation-baby abuse

You're gonna look down one day and suddently realize that your "budget AR" seems to have acquired $500+ worth of attachements and new parts. Ask me how I know

I try to only shoot 50-100rds in 1-2 calibers each time I shoot handgun, stretched out over 30-50 minutes. My usual approach is to slow down my ammo consumption & and get more practice on reloads by only loading 1-5 rounds per magazine and doing 1 or more slide lock reloads in each string.

Appreciate the comments guys. The feedback was helpful. I'm gonna look to put together a fresh batch of 20 reloads, try to find a target with more contrast that will mesh well with my reticle and give it another go relatively soon. I'll also increase the time inbetween shots & strings, per glennp's thoughts. Thank you. I'll likely end up taking one or both of you up on the offers, once I get everything together.

Appreciate the feedback all. Eye fatigue may be part of it. I'm gonna see if I can come up with something with a high contrast point of aim that might make things easier on subsequent attempts. On Vlad G's questions 1 & 2 - Yes. I'm using this upper from BCM 3 - It was the front bag of the Caldwell Deadshot shooting bag combo.

I headed to Cherry Ridge on Sat morning with the specific goal of shooting 4 comparably good 5 shot groups to kind of prove to myself that I hadn't simply cherry picked the handful of good groups I've taped up over my reloading bench. That isn't exactly what I ended up doing, and I'd be interested in anyone's feedback or thoughts on what I should take away from the results. Range is 100yds and I was benchrest shooting my BCM 16" SS barrel AR w/Trijicon TR24. Ammo was all from the same batch of 77gr reloads I made at the same time & used the same lot of spent brass for. I shot the plates top to bottom, right to left. I.E., the first two groups started off pretty good, but the next two were noticably worse. I don't believe it was my barrel getting hot, as it was a relatively brisk 37 degrees and I was taking 5-10 seconds a shot and around 3 minutes in between strings. I also don't feel like I was doing much differently in each string. None of the groups felt less comfortable than another. Overall placement on the plate also doesn't really change, so I don't feel like I can blame wind or anything like that. Yet, it would seem that something changed. It's not as if the larger groups are just being thrown open by a single flyer. My only other thought would be that nothing really went wrong and I just need to think of all 4 groups as 'valid' indicators of the accuracy my rifle & reloads are capable of, which would be a little dissapointing as the bottom right's extreme spread was over 2".