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  1. Thanks so much for your support and feedback! By all means, forward the article as you see fit. The Opinions editor at Times of Trenton, Diana Groden, was extremely willing to work with me. She made suggestions and pointed out areas that I needed to re-word or choose a more palatable wording or examples to keep readers' minds open. She really took time and effort to help me communicate my points without turning off readers (I did let my bias get the better of me by slipping in the "agenda" sentence...oops). I'm surprised that it also has 7,100 facebook likes!
  2. It's been a long time since I've shown my face around here. But, with all the anti-2A articles out there, I decided to try to do something about it. I had constantly been complaining that no papers were publishing "our" side of the 2A discussion. So, I wrote an article and submitted it to the editor of the Times of Trenton, it was my response to their Jan. 2 guest opinion article ("People have no right to assault weapons"). After some back and fourth discussion and editing, they published it in the Sunday edition! It's on NJ.com. Link
  3. A Linden, NJ man was arrested for shooting squirrels in his back yard. He wasn't charged with any firearm violations, though! Only animal cruelty. Interesting. radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/nj-man-arrested-for-shooting-backyard-squirrels.html
  4. I've shot 2 boxes of Fiocchi .357 mag hollow point. No issues at all. Very consistent loads, brass ejected from the cylinder every single time, no problems with crazy expansion, no problems with cracked brass, all rounds fed into the cylinder without a problem. I trust it.
  5. I started to write a response tearing this post apart. But I stopped. I sincerely hope that you are properly licensed and insured to give the type of legal advice that you just gave out. Your advice puts people in the path of both physical harm and unnecessary legal punishment. I'm out.
  6. There is standing precedent (in the NJ appellate division) that intentionally arming yourself with a "weapon" for the purposes of self-defense does not fall within the "lawful purposes" clause of the statute. Not only that, but the defendant in that case was about as sympathetic as you get. She was a battered woman (beaten by her abusive boyfriend), escorting her child home from the park, when her abusive boyfriend attacked her, unprovoked. She defended herself with a box-cutter (not a knife, a friggin BOX CUTTER), and her conviction of unlawful possession of a weapon (or whatever) was upheld! The court said that spontaneously arming yourself with something that was lying around is OK, but intentionally arming yourself before you left the house, just in case of confrontation is not OK. I don't know what the outcome would be, now that the US Supreme Court has said that self-defense is a basic human right, fundamental to our principles of ordered liberty. I don't want to be the test case. My theory is that all your problems start when you talk to the police. If you're ever involved in ANY altercation, do not talk to the police. They're not your friend (they're not really your enemy, either), but, they are there to gather information and evidence, which is then to be presented to a prosecutor (who wants to score high arrest/conviction ratio). Personally, I carry my EDC everywhere, all the time. Just never for the purposes of self-defense. My knife is a tool that may become useful at any point in time of my daily life, period. If I am ever in a self-defense situation, and I have used my knife, I will not talk to the police. I will only give identifying information and a request for an attorney. PS. Yes, I'm an attorney. No, this is not legal advice.
  7. I guess when you advertise that you don't believe in self-defense, you become a target for criminals. Just ask Justice Breyer.
  8. Funny, when I was a cigar noob, I tried a bunch of Macanudos and they completely turned me off of cigars...they were too "light," and too much like a cigarette. I would recommend: Padilla 1932 (size: Toro) Padilla 1948 Edicion Limitada 2010 if you can find them (Torpedo or corona) I only have 6 Edicion Limtiadas left, but if you want to try a 1932 (I bought a box), PM me your address, I'd be happy to send you one! Cigars are quite a particular art. A cigar that's wonderful in one size could be "too much" in a larger diameter and too weak in a smaller diameter. Also, try pairing your cigar with a nice bourbon, whiskey, scotch, brandy or red wine.
  9. Neither my wife, nor I smoke cigarettes, but we love Jose Padilla 1932's! FYI. Be careful about admitting to buying Cubans overseas...the way the law is written, I'm 90% sure that it's illegal for you to even purchase them while outside of the U.S.
  10. THIS x10004556334!!!! During voir dire, I kid you not, my father was asked, "can you set aside the science and training that you received as an engineer, and decide this case solely on the information given to you?" He was quickly dismissed from the jury pool. BlueLine: first chance you get, tell the defense that you're a police officer. You should be out by lunch, at the latest.
  11. Nope, physics is still physics, even when clouded by the slight retardation caused by lead dust! Those droplets came from directly above, no trajectory beyond straight down. So, either something was hovering while it dropped a liquid, or it came from a source directly above the point in the picture. I've got experience with small water leaks in the ceiling causing funny brown water droplets. If I'm right, at first, there's no evidence of the leaks, but eventually the paint above the droplets will bubble. If I'm wrong, the paint will never bubble, and the droplets came from something other than the roof.
  12. I'd be that these occur only when it rains for a couple days. I'd bet that you've got a small roof leak that dribbles through an mold-soaked area. Water likes to ride from the point of entry to a joint, then down the walls to baseboards or ceilings. I'd hate to say, but you've probably got a roof leak and a mold issue.
  13. Not just a "Liberal" thing. Question anyone with an agenda. It's most difficult to pick out a bias or agenda, when it's one with which you agree.
  14. First and foremost, I would strongly recommend against camping out with the goal of holding the trespassers at gunpoint. I just don't see that ending well. I would suggest letting the police know about the trespassing and vandalism. Without power or other utilities, you're pretty much stuck with hoping the police step up patrolling and you could purchase a stand-alone unit that takes photo or video and trying to identify trespassers after the fact.
  15. He's not that bad looking....I mean...she? *shudder* I wouldn't touch "her" with vjf's equipment...especially not after what she's been through!
  16. OK, I'll be the first to call Bullisht (well, the first on this board, anyway). A Phoenix, AZ gun dealer makes a large purchase of .223 and 7.62x39 ammunition to the tune of $100k, pays for it ALL in advance and the driver gets "lost" and "mistakenly" takes a detour into Juarez? Yes, we have the driver's version of the story, that he "turned around," but what's the real story? Did "turn around" include him pulling into a Juarez commercial zone, where it took him 10 minutes to turn around? Did his truck come back a couple thousand pounds lighter? I'll consider this guy's version of events as "helpful, if true." But, this story just doesn't smell right. I just have trouble believing that any seasoned truck driver would enter a foreign country with tons of ammunition that could potentially be illegal, and think that everything would be OK.
  17. This is what pains me the most. When I continuously see people think that R=Pro-Gun and D=Anti. It's not an R or D thing; just look at Jeff Van Drew and Chris Christie. There are stereotypes and assumptions that can be made based on R vs. D, but, then, you know what they say about stereotypes and assumptions... That being said, if we completely changed the NJ legislature, we could get a veto-proof bill passed to change CCW, no Governor signature required. Though, I do fear what else a legislative body with such similar agendas or beliefs would do.
  18. There's not one. http://www.usacarry.com/concealed_carry_permit_reciprocity_maps.html Click on "Permits Honored by State" at the top of the map. Then, click on NJ. NJ does not honor any other state's CCW permit system. Except, maybe, Illinois.
  19. Well, she definitely owes you a second SBJ Day, now! Or, some other favor, but she owes you BIG for pulling that. Perhaps you can save it for when you need a big "get out of jail free" card to pull later?
  20. LOL! I've been in America! I'm a Florida native and only moved to this political cesspool in 2007. The abrupt change has left me in shock, mostly. I'm still struggling to appreciate the levels of corruption, hypocrisy and moral turpitude that the politicians have been permitted to sink to here. I've seen Lionel several times, but he'd previously struck me as a whiner. I don't agree with all that he says, but he is about as close to a constitutionalist as you can get in mainstream media!
  21. Every now and then, I tune in to the news, just to make sure nothing's changed. I turned to PIX 11's 10 o'clock news this evening. To my surprise and wonderment, there was an op-ed piece that was COMPLETELY pro 2A! By a commentator that is pro 2A! Supporting citizen's RTKBA (including carrying)!!! It's refreshing to hear someone actually speak of the Constitution in the context which it was intended. http://www.wpix.com/videogallery/69199099/News/here-comes-the-neighborhood-watch#pl-62886862
  22. You're right, they could retry the first count, because the judge failed to instruct the exemption for possession of the handguns. But, the state cannot retry the second charge (for the magazines), because of a lack of sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury conviction. **That's what I get for not reading the opinion before spouting off!**
  23. At first I was laughing along with him. His rant started off as funny and poignant. Though, I could "smell" where he was headed. Then, he went off the deep, anti end. But, as he so "eloquently" points out. Yes, guns in bars, religious services AND the classroom. And I should be so lucky that my first born comes out with a sidearm or a long gun! Ya lost me, Bill. You could have quit while you were ahead; you stopped being funny right about the 3:40 mark.
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