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This guy was a wing-nut (left hand thread!) Heard a report today that he had a FTF after changing magazines (report was the "magazine spring failed") at which point his weapon jumped... Not sure if this is indeed the case but wouldn't it be ironic if the hi-cap was the cause of the FTF and allowed people time to tackle him... If he had factory 10 or 15 round mags they may have actually been more reliable and thus not allowed people time enough to tackle him. I can only hope this was the case but you'll never hear that story if it is so true...

Guys give her a break; she has been waiting for years for some good blood to dance in... Lucky for us we have very strong pro 2A members in the House so her bill should be DOA. Also who in their right mind wants a gun control vote on their record in the run up to the 2012 elections? Don't see it happening...

Dick Winters was indeed a hero, what a tremendous loss... We are seeing so many from that generation go now. This past year we lost my grandmother at 85 and my wife’s father Sonny at 85 years who was B-17 tail gunner in the "Bloody 100th". My wife was a turn of life baby, her mother and father had her in their 40s after her brothers had both grown. In fact her brothers are my parent's age. Their seemed to be little respect for what Sonny did from his children in part I guess because they either never learned or because they never cared. When I met Sonny for the first time I saw the wall of B-17 and WWII memorabilia in his family room and in the center was a 1940's map of Europe with dots marking all of his missions. Being a huge WWII buff I knew the story of the 8th Air Force and knew what it meant to be a tail gunner in a B-17 over Europe in 1943, especially in the 100th BG. I had the privilege and the honor to sit with Sonny on a couple of occasions and talk about his service in the 8th Air Force. He showed me his box of flack, his medals, throat mic and so many other things from his service. He was so humble about it; he was the last surviving member of his crew and I cannot tell you what a loss it is to no longer have him with us. After his service in WWII he went on to become a Union City NJ Fire Captain, the man fell through three roofs, broke his back at least twice, survived three heart attacks, two open heart surgeries and even prostate cancer. He was the toughest old man I ever met and I miss him and his wisdom dearly. I'm sorry to ramble on off topic but if you have anyone from this generation left in your family cherish the time you have left with them, they are truly something else and we are losing them by the thousands every week... Sonny as everyone knew him hated his real name Cornelius and went by the name Joe in those years. He is holding the football on the far right.

Yup, the last two years of which Pelosi and her merry band of nimrods were controlling the books and baby Bush couldn't find his nads to veto their spending bills... I seem to remember a lot of things being better before 2006 actually... Just sayin'. At the rate these assclowns are printing money you ain't seen nothing yet... Oil is a commodity like gold, wheat and pork bellies. As the money supply increases its value decreases and what it buys is less of a given commodity. So while the energy price increases we saw in 2007 were mostly driven by an increase in demand globally fueled by a global economy on fire; the price hike you will see this year in a stagnate global economy will be largely due to inflation of the US dollar caused by our government intentionally devaluing our currency. Hold on to your tighty-whiteys because this time everything is in play including the cost of our food supplies. The best way I have heard this explained is in 1920 you could have bought a well made tailored suit or an ounce of gold for $20us. In 2011 that same quality suit and that same ounce of gold would cost you around $1,400us. Why? Because the United States currency is no longer tied to a standard such as gold as it used to be. The US just prints money on its honor that it is good for the value of what it says it’s worth when in reality it is nothing but worthless paper. No matter how much money you print its combined value is only worth what is backing it. So if I have a ton of gold in reserve and I print 100 notes against it each note has the value to buy 20lbs of gold. If I were to print 64000 notes against that same ton of gold each note is then only valuable enough to purchase ½ ounce of gold. You are about to witness Jimmy Carter part deux as the perfect storm of over regulation, high unemployment, increased interest rates and double digit inflation caused by the intentional devaluation of our currency ravage this nation... Unfortunately your average public school educated twenty something or liberal university indoctrinated graduate is too busy waiting for the next Xbox 360 title to come out or too busy looking for a job to begin paying back their $100,000 worth of student loans that are coming due to see the approaching tidal wave. Mark my words, the next several years are not going to be pretty....

The 305TPI in my T/A was rated at 195hp (10hp less than my 2.0L Cobalt BTW) and the 350TPI was only rated at a mere 230hp unless you purchased the duel cat option which gave you an extra 10hp (woohoo). Not a whole hell of a lot in a 3400+lb car. Didn't make a hell of a diffenece then as everyone wanted the Turbo T/A but dealers were selling them for upwards of $10k over sticker...

Color me a dumb-a**, I never do that...

Yeah buy we got free health care...

Guess they got it... Freaky dude...

Wait till you see his youtube page... Fun Bob posted the link on the NJCSD thread... http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10

Not all worked up, just saying that the judge in his case would not let him even use the moving exemption as his defense... So it really dosen't matter if what you are doing is legal if your judge won't let the jury hear your defense... I don't know, I thought it was funny...

Hello McFly; were you sleeping during the whole Brian Aitken thing, it was a joke...

Sounds like another law suit is in order...

We leased the Tahoe in 2006 and loved it so much we bought out the lease in 2009. The original list was $53,000 and I can say it was worth every penny. It has a Vortec 5.3L with Active Fuel Management that really isn't that bad on fuel, at least when I drive it. I get about 18mpg average with it. Throttle-jockey-Jackie in the next room is a different story; she only manages to eke out a mere 11mpg for some reason. But you know that and needing a full set of front and rear brakes and rotors replaced at 35,00mi has nothing to do with her driving habits... :thsmiley_deadhorse: It's my driving that is the problem, with 117k on my Cobalt I am on my second set of tires, original clutch and have only replaced the front brake pads once. Yup all me... LOL wait, if oil is $100+ a barrel in January, it will be back to $140-$160 by June...

No thanks, I'm spending $350 a month on gas now... I have no need to drive or accelerate faster; I already proved I can get myself in enough trouble with this... Besides I have an '07 Tahoe LTZ to truck the wife and kids around and I still have my '89 Trans Am with 49,000 miles on it. I bought the car new in '89 and in '93 replaced the factory 305 with a 4 bolt 350 I built and TCI 700R4. I spent about $12k on the build and it dyno'd at 430+hp/400+ft-lbs with a custom Hypertech chip I had burned for it. At 8mpg I'm fine with that just sitting in the garage thank you.

I was just breaking your nads... I really stopped driving cars for fun back in the early '90. I had Explorers, and three Rangers that I simply loved. I drove most of them to over 175,000mi in fact my '96 Ranger I sold in '02 with 270,000+mi on it (and it is still running!). In '07 when gas hit $4+ a gal I was spending over $700 a month in just gas driving my '03 Ranger XLT 4x4 so I decided to buy something more economical. I needed something cheap and disposable so I bought a Cobalt. Not being the type to drive sub 150hp sewing machine powered ricer I bought an SS/SC The car was rated at 22/30mpg but in reality was only getting about 27mpg so I went to work. I installed an Injen intake, GM Stage II kit, Magnaflow exhaust, ZZP 3' down pipe w/ high flow cat, a pre-production prototype SLP shorty header (that never went into production BTW, I have one of only five ever made), step cooler plugs, a larger secondary heat exchanger and I topped it off with a dyno tune by Matt at Tune Time in Toms River. I now get about 33-35 overall mpg (yes that is with driving at average highway speeds of 75+mph. The car was factory rated at 205hp/200ft-lbs at the crank. With no stock baseline at the wheels I cant give 100% accurate gains but my last dyno showed 262whp/224ft-lbs which puts it close to 300hp at the crank. I have about 117,000mi on it and I love it! This is the last picture of it taken the week I got it back from getting rear-ended:

I drive in excess of 45,000mi a year and am on the road between 3-5 hours every day; I can tell you at 7:30AM no one is going up the GSP in the left lanes through Woodbridge under 80-85mph so the 55mph thing is sort of bogus. The douchebag that cut me off was about the fifth one aimlessly meandering their way up the parkway that morning to find me and he just got the best of me. I lost my temper and as soon as I was able to I put some distance between us, I simply wasn't paying attention to how fast I did that until it was too late. Again an 1/8th of a mile in either direction and I would have been doing 80 like everyone else. The PA thing was just to avoid getting sucked through a set of tolls and onto other major highways to make a u-turn somewhere I was unfamiliar with, I didn't cut anyone off as I had plenty of room, I even pulled right over, wasn't my fault he didn't see me and blew past. It was just funny how it happened. Aside from the dirtball that rear-ended me in bumper to bumper traffic on Rt78 last April and the legally blind asian grandma that decided to merge her SUV into my left rear quarter panel while I was stopped at a red light back in December of ‘09 I haven’t been in an accident since I was 17 (circa ’86)… Considering the 800,000+ miles I have driven since the early ‘90s I’d put my driving record up against just about anyone… Chances are you're most likely one of the amateurs the regular GSP commuters dread driving with when forced to drive the highways on weekends or holidays... You really need to get over your pompous, self-righteous self.

That sucks, I misread it. Imagine that so close to America but yet so far. Bet he won't be back in NJ any time soon. NJ and you...

This happened in PA, not NJ... Gentlemen we may actually have the first confirmed case of a potential drive-by-bayoneting... Damn those NJ legislators are ahead of the curve, finally after 20 years we have proof it could happen...

Classic! I got nailed in Woodbridge on the GSP in 2009, 110 in a 55... Talk about sucky timing, had an a**-clown cut me off on the Driscoll only to go 30mph slower than the group I was with. I finally got around him at the last bridge in Fords, I wound out third, wound out fourth and as I let off the gas and shifted into fifth I entered the long straightaway by the Rt 1 overpass. The trooper was sitting on the right by the entrance with LIDAR. Talk about bad timing I was probably doing 110 for about an 1/8 of a mile... Oh well... I also had a Smokey and the Bear moment on the PA Turnpike the same year, I made a u-turn on the Valley Forge exit I got off at by accident, there was a wall of tractor trailers coming out of the tolls in front of me and as I made the u-turn around the barrier I saw three cars behind me a trooper turn his lights on. I wound out first, second and third to get in front of the oncoming trailers and pulled over on the shoulder of the on-ramp knowing he was coming for me. He went around the outside of the two lanes of trailers on the on ramp and I watched him drive past me under the trailers... Sat there for a few and just drove off. I did pass some hard looking troopers sitting on the shoulder about ten miles down the road though... You win some and you lose some I guess... I never had a problem in MD, the only out of state ticket I ever got was in Islandton, SC for 28 in a 25... May have been the NY plates on the rent-a-car. Figures they give the Yankee a complimentary hard time.

I got to thinking about the whole OGAM law suit and NJ regulating the sale of air guns as firearms. Imagine this, you go to the police station, apply for a permit to purchase a handgun and tell them that you are going to PA next month and intend to purchase a bb pistol at Cabellas while you are out there. Tell them if they would like to have a record of the transfer you'll be back to pick up the permit before you leave... LOL That should stir up a real hornets nest!

This was discussed on an NJCSD thread some time ago. Here are my thoughts:

The rule of thumb is anything you are convicted of that "could" carry a sentence of a year or more will make you a convicted felon and thus prohibited. So if you are convicted of a fourth degree crime in which you could have been sentenced to up to 1½ years but were only sentenced to 6 months you would still be prohibited. At least this is how it was explained to me. Under this situation you could get the conviction expunged but certain crimes can not be expunged...

That is my sweetheart, factory nickel with Siglite night sights manufactured circa 1994. It looks a little different now; I put a set of 229 Equinox grips on it last year. I also have a P225 sitting at Shore Shot that I have to pick-up some day...

I liked them so much I bought one of each... LOL Actually the blue one is an M9...

There, I fixed that for you...