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    If anyone has read the Federalist Papers, Hamilton clearly explains the need for citizens to arm themselves the same firepower of the army or militia  and are to be able to protect ourselves and our neighbors from the armies of an unfair government. There is no question to why our founding fathers wanted us to own firearms.

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    When we moved into our house 26 years ago, I built a wood shed from pressure treaded wood for the frame and plywood sheathed roof. On the inside I nailed chicken wire tight all the way up to the roof. The outside is vinyl siding with a 3 tab shingle roof. No problems with insects. Every year I fill it up in the summer, it holds about 2 1/2 cords of wood. The first year I stacked the wood until you could not fit another piece in it. When it came time to burn in the winter, at first I thought someone hopped my fence and was stealing wood. Then I realized it had shrunk after the moisture left the wood. It was at least 1' lower in height than when I first stacked it. No tarps to move, just fill the wheel barrow and burn.

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    On ‎12‎/‎26‎/‎2018 at 5:56 PM, JohnnyB said:

    Kinda late to start now but according to their  website Jersey is killing them with orders!

     

     

    ***New Jersey Customers:   We are working as fast as possible, but it takes time to process orders! Thank you for your patience!  Current processing time is about 3 to 4 days with the current rush. USPS times are estimates of transit time only. We will get all orders out as soon as possible so you can keep your magazines!!!***

    I ordered 8 of them for my PMags on Christmas Eve, I received them 4 days later. Most of my magazines are on vacation in Georgia but I want to still go to the range and not be hassled at the range or on the to or from the range. I put a rivet in the baseplate and epoxied them, they can't be opened. Not ideal not being able to take them apart, but in the past I never did anyway. Only with my older magazines did I find the need to take them apart.

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    5 minutes ago, JohnnyB said:

    Problem is, even if you blocked it to 10 rounds. The follower and 30 round style spring would allow you to remove the block and use it as a 30 round mag. It would not be permanent!

    I was wondering it that was the case.

    I was thinking that you could glue of pin the magazine, but then how do you take them apart to clean them. 

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    18 hours ago, Regular Guy said:

    I guess the rifle and shotgun courses use to be two separate courses, but now it is combined into 1 firearms course.  If you used to have just the shotgun course and you now want to get the rifle permit, you would have to take the current course.  Here is the link where I got that.  I just did the course back in April.  

    http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/hunted.htm

       

    Thanks, that was very helpful. 

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    1 hour ago, voyager9 said:

    I wonder if that resignation comes with a pension and healthcare? 

    It depends on how many years she has in. You need 25 years to get medical. Any amount of years if you were in it early enough Tier 1. Pension depends on your salary, I worked 12 years, resigned because my boss was a shit head. I get a pension but it is very small, no medical. There are a lot of misconceptions on the medical. At 65 you still have to take Medicare A&B and your State medical will cover other costs. State medical does not cover everything. My wife as a teacher contributes $1,200 a month for our state medical health plan. Free coverage is long gone.

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    At one point the NJDEP had a fund to remove oil tanks from personal property. I don't know if it is still in place. I was in the Environmental business at the time and had a few connections. One company when testing for leaks drilled right through the bottom of the tank testing for soil contamination. Guess what? They found contaminated soil (which was caused by them. I happen to be going up to Clifton today to my sisters and will ask her what she had to do in the end.

    There are a lot of companies that will rape you for taking out a tank if you know nothing on the subject.

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    18 hours ago, Sniper22 said:

    That's virtually impossible to happen from a next door septic system. Wells normally are deep enough and get their water from an underground aquifer. The water gets into that aquifer from a long distance away, depending on the depth of the well.

    Not necessarily. Before I retired a 3 years ago I worked for a municipal water/wastewater utility. I have had success with the NJDEP in having a cleaning business pay for monitoring 4 times a year for another 10 years as they had contaminated the groundwater with their chemicals. Our well is 900' deep. I've worked for an environmental company that tested gas stations that had leaks over 10 years ago and still have to test with up to 16 test wells in the area to see the contamination is still present.

    You are correct when you say normally wells are deep enough that the rainwater does not get deep in certain areas depending what the soil formation and clay layers are like. In a confined aquifer, clay normally keeps the contaminants from entering but there are plenty of unconfined aquifers that allow contaminants to enter. A typical home owner well can be 40' to 300' depending on where the aquifer is located. Some aquifers get recharge from rain, others from streams, lakes and rivers.

    You do not need the health department to put a shovel in the ground, you need a mark out to show there are no utilities that you will encounter, water, sewer, cable, gas, and  electric.

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    12 hours ago, SJG said:

     A U.S. District Court decision in Mass sets no precedent and is not binding on anyone but the parties to the suit. However, knowing that Circuit it is likely they will affirm the decision which will impact that Circuit.  The proposed NJ bill on assault weapons, which is really a "one evil feature bill" would result in a de facto ban and/or a featureless AR. I am sure the assembly will move on that in their next round of firearms bills. Either way, and make no mistake the objective is to do in the AR. Any such law will probably be challenged, but the bottom line is, this issue is not going away and will only be laid to rest if and when the U.S. Supreme Court chimes in. That may or may not happen in our lifetimes.

    Not that I would do this, what would happen if someone cut off the pistol grip with a saw? I have plans in place to transfer them out of state if it comes down to it, but still wonder if they would be then legal?

    Also, I'm sure this has been already talked about but you just can't read every bill the liberals put out there. We have talked about lever action, tubes for 22Lr's, Are all semi-auto 22Lr's also banned by their evil features even though you can't compare a "high Powered 5.56 at 3200 fps to a slow 22Lr that fires around 1,000 to 1,200 fps. A S&W  15/22 would be considered an assault weapon even though it is not a "high powered" firearm?  I read the bills as yes it would, but there are so many posts over the internet that go either way. NJ bill say "look alike", so my take is all are included?

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    How will this affect those of us in NJ?  I think those that live in Massachusetts are getting hit harder then we are at the present time. I'm hoping there will be a quick appeal to this case. This judge clearly doesn't understand or wish to understand the reason we have a Second Amendment.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-assault-weapons-ban-doesnt-violate-2nd-amendment/ar-AAvyIYD?ocid=spartandhp#image=1

    This was published over an hour ago.

     

    BOSTON — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Massachusetts' ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, saying in a ruling released Friday that the weapons fall beyond the reach of the Second Amendment.

    U.S. District Judge William Young said assault weapons are military firearms and aren't protected by the constitutional right to "bear arms." Regulation of the weapons is a matter of policy, not for the courts, he said.

    "Other states are equally free to leave them unregulated and available to their law-abiding citizens," Young said. "These policy matters are simply not of constitutional moment. Americans are not afraid of bumptious, raucous and robust debate about these matters. We call it democracy."

    Democratic state Attorney General Maura Healey said the ruling "vindicates the right of the people of Massachusetts to protect themselves from these weapons of war."

    "Strong gun laws save lives, and we will not be intimidated by the gun lobby in our efforts to end the sale of assault weapons and protect our

    communities and schools," she said in a statement. "Families across the country should take heart in this victory," she said.

    Young's decision comes as AR-15 assault-style rifles are under increased scrutiny because of their use in several recent mass shootings, including the February massacre at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead.

    The Gun Owners Gun Owners' Action League of Massachusetts and other groups that filed the lawsuit argued that the AR-15 can't be considered a "military weapon" because it cannot fire in fully automatic mode.

    But Young dismissed that idea, noting that the semi-automatic AR-15's design is based on guns "that were first manufactured for military purposes" and that the AR-15 is "common and well-known in the military."

    "The AR-15 and its analogs, along with large capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional right to 'bear arms,'" Young wrote.

    Young also upheld Healey's 2016 enforcement notice to gun sellers and manufacturers clarifying what constitutes a "copy" or "duplicate" weapon under the 1998 assault weapon ban, including copies of the Colt AR-15 and the Kalashnikov AK-47.

    Healey's stepped-up enforcement followed the shooting rampage at a nightclub in

    Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 patrons. She said at the time that gun manufacturers were circumventing Massachusetts' ban by selling copycat versions of the weapons they claimed complied with the law.

    The Massachusetts assault weapons ban mirrors the federal ban that expired in 2004. It bans the sale of specific and name-brand weapons and explicitly bans copies or duplicates of those weapons.

    The lawsuit was filed last year by the and other groups who said the law infringed on their rights under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

    Jim Wallace, executive director of the Massachusetts gun owners group, said Young's upholding of Healey's crackdown on copycat assault weapons gives the attorney general "unbridled authority" to interpret laws as she pleases.

    "Everyone in the state should be really concerned about that," Wallace said. "What if the next attorney general isn't a friend on one of your issues?"

    Wallace said he couldn't yet say whether they will appeal the ruling.

    The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment allows Americans to have guns in their homes for self-defense and blocked local governments from banning handguns.

    But the court last year turned away an appeal from Maryland gun owners who challenged the state's ban on assault weapons.

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    2 minutes ago, capt14k said:

     


    Georgia is safe for now but I worry about all the transplants outside Atlanta. Many companies moved their headquarters to Atlanta and brought NY/NJ executives with them. NH as I said is far from safe. Check out Northeastshooters Forum for the truth about New England gun laws.


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    We found 10 acres next to a friends house on a mountain in Georgia. Problem is when they found out we lived in NJ, the price changed from $30K to $100K. 

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    1 minute ago, capt14k said:

     


    IMO NH is to VT as PA is to NJ. The disease of Liberalism is spreading. NH is far from a solid red state just like PA. They undid 227 years of VT firearms laws in under a week. NH like PA is in the crosshairs. If I was making a permanent move I would not move to either state. The way I see it the closest safe states are Indiana and Tennessee.


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    I do spend a lot of time in NH, love the state, but I couldn't afford to retire there as it is #2 right behind NJ in taxes. I think our move in 2 years will be GA or Tennessee.

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