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Oh, I was there the last time for the petition drive. I'll be there again.

Take a look at this article at Politicker NJ: http://politickernj.com/2015/07/which-powerful-new-jersey-democrat-had-the-worst-week/ Where he calls NJ2AS "gun nuts", "Gun fetishists" and "outside the mainstream." I wrote the guy, but let's see if we can get a couple more people to correct him.

Happy 5775 to all of my fellow members of the tribe! May this be the year that we see a wrongly accused woman go free and Perutta is decided in our favor. L'Shanna Tova!

Now that is interesting. I kind of like that idea. Maybe I'll get a permit just for a black powder pistol.

Actually, this is perfectly legal: http://www.mossberg.com/rifle-calibers/30-30-win

Honestly, It's the athleticism. I think I finally noticed that I was middle aged and I want to try and push myself before my body starts shutting down.

So here's what's going on. I still read TTAG every day and I check up on the NJ forums every once in a while. I still listen to Gun For Hire. But I feel... done It's hard to explain. I just don't have the passion for shooting that I had just a few years ago. Maybe I'm getting older? Maybe I just feel like I have all of my bases covered when it comes to self defense and sport shooting. Honestly, I just got into bike riding and rock climbing. It seems like sport shooting has taken a back seat to everything else. Ammo is too expensive... when you can find it. I'm not about to sell anything, but nothing really excites me about the sport anymore. When I bought my first gun I went to the range maybe once every six months. When I changed jobs I sat in a cube next to a former Marine who was a Glockaholic and he got me into shooting again. Six years later it just feels like I'd rather do something else with my time. Was the gun thing just a phase? Has this happened to anyone else here?

Don't be surprised how quickly one gun turns into two.

Oh no. It's ok. I talked with my doctor. That little blue pill worked wonders.

Hornandy Critical Defense. G-d forbid I ever get into a shooting, at least the box says "Critical Defense" and not "Zombymax Fleshripper" or whatever.

If you see Giants Shirts, you are in North Jersey. If you see Eagles Shirts, you are in South Jersey. If you see Jets shirts you have obviously slipped into a parallel dimension.

How is the actual gun? Does its weight make it any easier to shoot? My Kel Tec PF9 is about the same size and I hate the recoil.

Honestly it depends. Let me get call up Roberta Mancino and get her opinion.

Honestly I was under stress and didn't feel it.

Funny, I get that all the time. Perhaps Beretta owners are just adored by women, even if we do flick the safety on once in a while.

I've only been escorted to the front of the store when I've bought a gun. Sometimes Dicks puts the ammo in a locked box, sometimes not. This is in the Princeton, Burlington, Mt. Laurel and Cherry Hill Locations. They have asked for Date of Birth and Citizenship for a while now.

Whoa, Didn't mean to cause a fight. I honestly do love all things Beretta. I wish I had never gotten rid of my PX4 - which was my HD gun. I have spent 20 years in the military and about 25 years shooting total. I know a thing or two about the Beretta 92FS, which is why this scared the crap out of me. If it could happen to me - it could happen to anyone. I've often felt that the best gun for home defense is the one you are most comfortable with. If you are a Russian immigrant, you may be very comfortable with a AK type rifle. If you are older with arthritis, a revolver may be more your speed. If you are the Vice President, a double-barred shotgun could work. If you breath through your mouth, a Glock may be a good choice. If you light your cigars with $100 bills, you may be more comfortable with an HK. If you dress impeciablly well and date Italian supermodels, then a Beretta may be more your speed. I took the gun to the range last weekend at Ft. Dix and put 100 rounds through it - I didn't have a single problem. And I was shooting 5 rounds at a time - forcing myself to rack the slide with the safety on using that "rollover and grasp" grip. My only concern is that when I flicked the safety on Thursday I did it it was under stress and after not shooting it for about 6 months - my new Colt Official Police Revolver has gotten a lot of love since I bought it a little while back. So what does this mean? It means I need more training and it was incredibly stupid of me not to train with my home defense gun for 6 months while I shot my revolver. It may take a while until I am comfortable again, but the Kel Tec PF9 is staying on the nightstand for now. I'd rather have 8+1 rounds I know will work than 15 that may not work under stress - at least until I can shoot some more and get my confidence back. And of course, this never would have happened if I had bought a Glock, Sig, M&P or XD... but then again Elisabetta Canalis would never have had dinner with me if I had done that.

I thought about that, but my Kel Tec has a rail. After Hurricane Sandy I realized how useful a rail was for a light. I'm seriously considering a 4" XDS which I've heard is a soft shooter that you can also carry. I'll give up 5 rounds for something I know will work. I had a PX4 Compact for a while and I never had a problem with it, but needed to sell it to fund other projects.

quote name="Nickjclittlecary"873653" timestamp="1399111927"] I dont see this as an inherent design problem.... Or failure of the firearm... No offense intended but it appears to be the user in this particular circumstance. I think you are absolutely correct. I attribute this to lack of training. I bought a revolver a few months ago and I've been playing with that primarily. So basically under stress I didn't roll mt hand up and grasp, I clamped down and racked. It's a perishable skill, but it still surprised me and it struck me that under stress I could do it again. Now granted if I'm doing a magazine change in my home after 15 rounds I've got bigger problems, But it's still a little scary.

Most of you know that I basically worship at the alter of Pietro Beretta, but I had a range session last night that really bothered me. I was shooting last night and practiced a reload. When I slammed my hand down to rack the slide I flicked the safety back on. Only here is the problem: I didn't notice. The gun didn't go click or bang. Malfunction, right? So I racked the slide again. And then again. And that's when I noticed that the safety was on. I would have been in a lot of trouble if this had happened to me in a fight. I've been shooting for almost 25 years and I made this boneheaded mistake under the stress of a fast magazine reload. I always thought that "rolling" my hand up the side of the gun would prevent this from happening. It didn't. I came down vertically like a bear paw under stress and the safety flicked on. I'm still going to keep my Beretta around but this really scared me. I just can't trust the gun anymore. My Kel Tec PF9 will be doing nightstand duty until I can get a new permit for something with no slide-mounted safety like a Sig, an XD or an M&P. And yes, I would still rather go to the dentist than buy a Glock. Food for thought for anybody with a 92FS/M9.

Its fashionable and its a low-impact demographic. We basically created our own problem with the FID system by creating a barrier of entry. How many times have you taken a friend shooting and they are very excited - until they have to fill out a form and wait. How many times have you gone over to their house and saw the form on their kitchen table weeks after you've taken them shooting? The inconvenience of filling out the FID form and fingerprinting creates artificial barriers which basically restricts gun owners to people who are hunters, enthusiasts and collectors. So with a high barrier of ownership we basically have a population that doesn't own guns, doesn't know anything about guns and doesn't know anybody who owns a gun. So when you have a population like that, the legislature can pass all kinds of crazy laws - because it only causes pain to 15% of their voting base. Look, I can look at an AR-15 and say: "Not my style, but have fun with that." The average soccer mom who grew up in Cherry Hill, attended school at Rutgers and basically returned to Cherry Hill to squirt out more kids has only ever seen a AR-15 looking gun when she was 13 on her Bat Mitzvah trip to Israel. It scared the crap out of her then and she ain't really feeling it now. Every couple of years lawmakers use these guns as brooms to sweep all of these people in the voting booth. So why wouldn't politicians do this?

He's from Italy? Just don't let him drive to the range.

Ooh... someone has read Freakanomics! I am of the opinion that the legislators are not stupid. They trot out the whole gun thing every few years to scare the soccer moms into the voting booth. I think that's one of the reasons that Jon Corzine crammed through the One Gun A Month Ban. I think he was sitting in his office thinking: "Nothing is working. We need to galvanize the base. Gun control usually works, but restrictions can't get much tighter - unless we just invent something." So they came up with One Gun a Month. It was brilliant when you think about it. It gave Corzine the chance to show that he was tough on guns and it is genuinely tough to argue why you *need* more than one gun a month anyway. One politician (I think it was Weinberg) who said : "This law will allow you to still buy up to 13 guns a year so what is your problem?" And in all honesty it's hard to argue against a law like that when most people in NJ don't think you need one gun, much less 13. Think about it this way - if the state passed a law banning the use of ATV's because they were dangerous would you care? Nope. You know who would care? A bunch of NJ Rednecks in Jackson, Cumberland County and way up North in East Milford. But you can safely step all over them because 90% of the state doesn't care. It's the same way with guns. Only 14% of the citizens of this state have their skin in the game. I am of the opinion that the only way to fight it is to make it so politically suicidal to vote on this way. We also need to run candidates in the Democratic primary against these guys. They hate that because then it forces them to spend money in the primary instead of in the general election.

I actually have all three, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu. I didn't know Game of Thrones was on Amazon prime. I will take a look. It seems like Netflix is good for the kids since they watch the same crap over and over. Hulu is good for catching up on TV and British Shows and Amazon Prime is good for... well quite honestly Downton Abby.

Funny. Maybe It's my age but I thought of GI Joe.