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Welcome from Hoboken. Remember to register to vote and vote against Ruben Ramos for Mayor later this year. He voted for all those anti gun measures in assembly.

Finally got the chance to take the Savage 11-VT to the range. After getting more comfortable on the rifle, I was about grouping 5 rounds at 1 to 1.5 inches at 100 yards. Used inexpensive ammo, like American Eagle, Remington UMC. Cleaned after every shot for the first 10 shots. Then cleaned every 2, 3, 5, 10 and 15 shots. Total 130 rounds today. I am usually more accustomed to the 22lr, today I worked on loading my shoulder into the rifle and feeling the recoil. In a few more weeks I'll take it back out, with a higher magnification scope, Fiocchi match grade, and try again at 100, 200 an 300 yards. The crosshairs and dot on the Bushnell look huge: at 12x at 100 yards it seems to cover half-inch.

$180.99 for 200 $18.99 for 20 in-stock as-of 11:48pm Thursday 5/2

I am listening the the session. Norrcoss said S2735 is held by sponsor (Van Drew).

And bill reported out of committee. Many thanks to everyone who showed up to voice your concerns. The conclusion was foregone, but we gave them something to worry about.

I was expecting anti's to number about 50 to 75. I was expecting gun rights to number about 100 to 200.

Went to work instead. Will watch from the live cam, see how things go, and maybe go Thurs instead. Fought an hour traffic to miss the bus by minutes. Maybe next time I take anti-gunner's bus, which is only 15mins away. :-) but after I testify they may jot give me a ride back. Got dressed up too. A little over dressed for work today. Everyone is probably wondering if I went on a job interview.

Bad traffic. Timed to get here 15mins early but got here 3 minutes late to see the bus leaving without me. Had a speech and everything... Oh well, good luck guys.

As I reflect on S2723, something occurred to me. I was at the Bergen Ethical Culture Society in March when Loretta Weinberg was guest speaker. She mentioned something that stuck out as odd. Maybe someone else has a better recollection of what she said, and correct me if I recall incorrectly. She said she asked some LEO, either a municipal police department or the state police, how many FIDs and permits were issued. They either told her they couldn't tell her, or wouldn't tell her, I don't recall clearly. I remember she was being rather put-off by it. Reading S2723, the centerpiece bill, and S2720, I wonder if she is still working off that feeling of having been rebuffed. If they told her they were not allowed to release that information, because that information is not of public record, that could explain her putting in S2720. If they told her no, and she suspects the municipal or state police is not saying because they don't track that kind of numbers, that could explain S2723. The bill does not change the respective roles of Superintendent of State Police to set process, or the municipal Police Chief to conduct background check. But it adds a 3rd party to the process, the Chief Administrator of NJ MVC, to the process. NJ MVC has annual budget of about $410 million, employing about 2400 employees. Whereas a municipal police chief or superintendent is focused on the bureaucracy of administration related to crime, NJ MVC is focused on bureaucracy of data processing. A data-centric organization like NJ MVC should be better at answering questions like "How many Firearm IDs are in XX town? How many were issued for each month of 2011, etc.." The bill is about building and Information Technology system, which in section 6c the superintendent will "test drive" between the 25th month and the 73rd month following the act's passage. If anybody ever read Brady Bill of 1993, which is in US 922 (t) (1) and led to National Instant Background Check System (NICS), it is kind of like that. The sad part is, where as NICS applies to the whole country, Sweeney and Weinberg's bill only applies to NJ. All this flowery language, the super-duper system, the millions of dollars they are going to spend... none of it means a thing, once you realize criminals don't have firearm ids, don't buy guns legally, and if needed buy guns out-of-state.

I go into DMV to renew my driver's license, which is kind of a chore. They say, - please fill out firearms application - make appointment go get fingerprinted again. - provide 2 references' names and addresses. Some DMV may require 4. Some may require references not be family. Some may require references to be notarized. -mental health background check.

Seriously. 31 pages. I am still digesting... or maybe that sound is indigestion.

Looking at legislative schedule from front page, S2476 banning online ammo sales is still there. But looking at Legislative Calendar (left hand navigation) posted as of 9am today, S2476 has been dropped. Reading S2723, it looks look firearm training and ammo regulation bills were sucked in. Gone is banning of online ammo sales. Instead all ammo sales require id (not just handgun), and can only be shipped to address on Id.

I haven't finished reading yet. What I have read so far makes me laugh. www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/S3000/2723_I1.HTM

Bill text for s2723 has been posted.

I signed up for the bus leaving from Pine Brook. Not as close, but parking in the area doesn't look so bad. See you guys in Trenton tomorrow!

Since logistics of the 4/30 meeting is difficult to track, I am considering taking the bus to ease logistics. The prospect of waking up 5:30am to catch a ,7am bus hurts... I am not a morning person. Does anyone know the parking situation around the Bullet Hole in Bellville? That looks like the closest location to me, but as I recall parking is not abundant.

1 day before the 4/30 committee meeting, and the bill text for Sweeney's centerpiece bill S2723 is still not released. I am surprised they don't have rule requiring bill text be available for review 48 hours prior to commencement of debate. I am going into 4/30 meeting in support of S2492 NICS records and S2724 School Security. I am most opposed to S2476 which bans buying ammo online, and S2485 terrorist watch list. For 5/2 meeting, bill text for S2721 and S2735 have been released. Both look good.

I don't agree with everything NRA says. Doesn't mean I don't support. I understand politics is fast changing. Sweeney's "centerpiece bill" S2723 hasn't even has bill text released yet, and the committee meeting is Tuesday. And this isn't anyone's full-time job. Even the committee meeting schedules keep changing. I support Frank and the NJ2AS, even if I won't agree with everything they do. Just like I support ANJRPC and Cherry Ridge, even if won't agree with everything they do. I support the organizations that I feel align with my interests. I don't expect them to be "absolute" and "takes a poll" or calls for my "opinion" on every little bit of change. NRA didn't call me up when they supported the Brady Bill of 1993, the NICS Improvement Act of 2007, or the Leahy-Collins Anti-Trafficking Amendment of 2013. If I wanted to join a gun group that just said "NO!" to everything, I would have joined the Gun Owners of America.

You know what doesn't make sense to me. S2723. Sweeney's "centerpiece" bill, with Norcross and Weinberg sponsors, Gill as co-sponsor. 2 days before its debate before SLP, and still no bill text. I hope no news is good news. But I tend to be overly optimistic.

That's what I was kind of thinking too. Especially coupled with S2430, "Study Commission on Violence" But I've been known to be wrong.

makes sense to me.

I'll pick door number 3. I usually pick ignorance over malicious intent. In my experience, people are more dumb than evil. I save my tin foils for baking chocolate chip cookies.

For 4/30 I'm thinking to drive. If anyone wants a ride from southern Hoboken drop me a PM. The bus from 7am-3pm just doesn't seem to make sense for a hearing that starts at noon. .

it's an aggregate number? who cares? fight the real battles..

Interesting. We'll see what the bill actually says. Anyways, bills with no overlap between Senate and Assembly, like S2721 and S2735, not likely to go anywhere.