Smokin .50

LOL, I guess so! I'll slide it in right between my grumpy old know-it-all & 2A leader roles Last month someone called me a Fudd on Facebook. They had nuthin' to say when I open carried my Colt Officer's .45 ACP in Condition #1 in my Mitch Rosen kant-forward holster all last weekend though... L-R: DC Project NY state Delegate Lauren Hartnett (from Tottenville, Staten Island), your ugliness the strapped "Fudd", DC Project Northeast Regional Director, DCP CT state Delegate & Connecticut Citizens Defense League President Holly Sullivan. The ladies joined Amanda Suffecool (Ohio Delegate for The DC Project) from nationally syndicated "Eye On The Target Radio" for a panel discussion at the Rod of Iron Freedom Festival at Kahr Arms last Saturday. Moderated by Charlie Cook (Riding Shotgun With Charlie--I'm interviewee #49), the panel focused on 2A and how women can get more involved.

annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd It looks like I killed another thread, lol? ~R

First, well-done to @Handyman Next: "Safety bullets" were already invented....decades ago! Glaser Corbon: Glaser Safety Slug is a frangible bullet made by Cor-Bon/Glaser, a subsidiary of Dakota Ammo, an American ammunition company based in Sturgis, South Dakota. The Glaser Safety Slug was developed by Jack Canon in 1975, the same year the company was founded by Armin Glaser. In the wrong hands, this video would help get this ammo banned from production as politicians would love to enact "FEEL-GOOD" legislation against it. These rounds are both a blessing and a curse, especially here in NJ. A low-information jury member could be convinced that using these 1,400 FPS "extra-deadly rounds" that are a Surgeon's nightmare meant that you premeditated a shooting scenario and enjoy killing. Anything can be twisted in court. HP's are outlawed under the Geneva Convention because they're UNFAIR & EVIL! NJ outlawed "Dum-Dum's". A Prosecutor can indict a Ham Sandwich.... So be careful out there!

Why stop at 10? Do I hear 20? YES, sold to that Eagle Scout right there!

I've been behind the trigger for over 48 years. I studied the EXCEPTIONS & EXEMPTIONS and stopped worrying about looking for permission to breathe air. The laws themselves are somewhat confusing, and don't include the NJF&W game laws that allow hunters that aren't old enough to buy firearms to USE & TRANSPORT firearms to the hunting site. On their bicycles. Study the exceptions & exemptions. Then look at the game laws Read carefully, as punctuation has MEANING: "COMMA, OR LOCKED IN THE TRUNK OF AN AUTOMOBILE" is the first of many that HS grads that barely passed English class always get wrong Taking your wife's hand gun to the range w/o her is an illegal transfer & a felony (indictable offense) UNLESS she has assumed room temperature. Cause then her property is YOURS & it's now YOUR hand gun And ya don't have to prop-up her dead body in the front seat of your vehicle to be "legal". In Jersey, there's the letter of the law, there's what will get you in trouble (waving a scattergun out yer car window), there's what candy-asses do (use FOPA for INTRASTATE transportation) to "feel-good", and there's what those "in-the-know" do. Continued success in your exploration to determine how much of a candy-ass (OR NOT!) you wanna be ~R

My half-stock .50 cal Lyman Trade Rifle with 1/48 twist loves 370 grain T/C Maxi-Balls w/ 72 grains of FFFg real Goex underneath. Here's what I've done at 50 yards offhand with primitive, non-adjustable open iron sights during a regular monthly competition at Old Bridge R&P Black Powder league, 89 x 100-4X. As you can see I'm guilty of minor "vertical stringing" due to heart beat. The one in upper right is a called flier. Those Maxi's have a habit of "twinning" themselves as you can see here on this B-19 50 Yard International Target. Bicentennial quarter for size. Notice how sharply cut the bullet holes are. I earned my NRA Distinguished Expert in Muzzleloading Rifle with this rifle & Maxi combo. Here's what a single 370 grain Maxi can do to a 290 pound hog with a headshot at 22 yards. He dropped where he was hit!

For those that can't see the above linked article, I'll reprint here in its entirety: RECOIL SHOOTING RANGE HOLDS GRAND OPENING TODAY! NJ's NEWEST 25 YARD INDOOR RANGE OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! by Black Wire Media Sat. Oct. 3, 2020 www.cnjfo.com/join-us Recoil NJ, New Jersey's newest indoor shooting range, opened just this morning at 25 Mott Ave. Monroe Twp. (Middlesex Co.) NJ, within minutes of NJTP Exit 8A. Featuring 16 spacious 25 yard firing lanes, air conditioned & heated for your comfort, each lane has a programable target system to send & retrieve your target carrier. The range can handle up to .308 Winchester / 7.62mm NATO rifle rounds, and the entire facility is acoustically baffled, with each shooting lane protected by fully-encapsulated AR-500 steel plate for your safety. CNJFO Vice President Dave "Rosey" Rosenthal visited this afternoon and was invited "to take a ride" on Marlboro, NJ resident Eddie Farah's Smith & Wesson .357 magnum, firing a round through the "X"-ring (see target close-up photo). Farah is seen firing in Rosey's photo. The Coalition gave these images to Recoil NJ to use as they see fit, so you may see them on the Range's Facebook & website soon This family-owned & operated business is open 7 days a week, and offers both hourly lane rentals for walk-ins and an annual membership, with first responder & senior discounts (see photo of price list). The range will be supplying some swag for upcoming Coalition outings, and CNJFO brochures & business cards are proudly displayed on their counter, so be sure to pick one up when you visit and/or join! At present there are no gun or ammo sales or rentals, so shooters must bring their own unloaded and cased firearms & ammo with them. Registration & sign-up are easily handled via a kiosk with assistance by their friendly & courteous staff. The range sells paper targets and plans on offering firearms training in the near future. For the latest info, hours, directions, etc., please visit their website: http://recoilnj.com/about-our-range/ @kc17 Thanks for the kudos Sir! Hope everyone enjoys the story & pix. The shot thru the center of the X-ring is mine

Thanks for responding & good luck getting it all straightened-out! Keep us advised please as we also learn from others. This way if someone else has the same situation, we can point them in the right direction. ~R

Annnnnnnnnnnnnd 4 days later the OP hasn't responded to clarify the $750 price quote........

@redbankresident Forgive me, but this table tennis game of single questions & single answers has gone on long enough. Meaning, due to the complexity & totality of the situation, it's time to come clean and/or DWYAT (Do What You Are Told) previously. You got a price of $750? That means you found a Dr. to write the note! Spend it! You can't find a Dr. to write the note AFTER being quoted the $750? Now we're all CONFUSED. Or you're BS'ing us all? Or perhaps we missed your serve in table tennis? (Missing INFO?) Your 2A rights are only worth what YOU think they're worth---NOT A PENNEY MORE Middletown won't keep your file open forever. If the CLEO tells this Detective to clear his desk before Thanksgiving and you're still pending, you'll most likely be denied and sent "the form letter" because you were given a chance to go back to the Dr. that wrote the script to get a letter & FAILED TO DO SO... No one will risk their practice on writing you a letter if they don't know you and you're not under their care ($$$). The best Dr. to write the letter (if Pirelli actually said he's not needed YET) would be the Dr. that wrote the script for the Happy Pills to begin with. He or she could write that you're no longer in need of continued medication for a temporary issue, as is the case most of the time in these issues. Job loss, death of child or spouse, financial ruin are all causes for a few refill doses of Happy Pills. Perfectly understandable, and several of us have gone thru this ourselves. Even gun owners are human beings with feelings... So unless you went Dr. Shopping for Happy Pills (and didn't come clean about it to Pirelli), spend the $750 you were quoted and call it a day. OR call Pirelli back for a full work-up and present THAT to the Detective in the Middletown PD that you're dealing with. We all hope YOU resolve this issue. Only YOU can do it. We can't do it for you. As others have said, lying on firearms forms is a YUGE No-No! Good luck! ~R

First, welcome to the Forum! In answer to your question I can recommend a 2A-friendly guy that has been interviewed on Gun For Hire Radio with Anthony Colandro, attended NJSAFECON as a vendor to reach-out to firearms owners, who specializes in this sort of EVAL and who's practice is recognized by the state of NJ as providing expert evaluations, testimony, documents, etc.: Gianni Pirelli in Verona, NJ. https://gpirelli.com/?page_id=959 Whatever he wants, just write the check. If you've already been denied and were told to "go see someone for a letter", you're playing with a ticking time bomb. Denials have to be handled in an expedient manner. You're ON-THE-CLOCK here! Be frank on the phone when you call his office and have your paperwork in your hand when you do. Your lifetime 2A rights are on the line, and you really can't put a price tag on THAT! Pirelli literally WROTE THE BOOK on this type of EVAL! Good luck on getting this taken care of! When you can spare some time, take a glance at what the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners is all about: https://www.cnjfo.com https://www.cnjfo.com/News https://www.cnjfo.com/join-us https://www.Facebook.com/cnjfo Sincerely, Dave "Rosey" Rosenthal, VP Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners (CNJFO) P.S.: We were a vendor at the same NJSAFECON event in Princeton, NJ.

He's got both ears & he can READ too, lol!

Sherlock "Danger" gettin' ready to raise hell at Lehigh Sporting Clays... He's a great cuddler...sleeps on my wife's lap when we're watchin' TV. When his claws aren't close enough to take care of bidness, he reaches for his Daddy's 3rd model Colt's Dragoon Cap & Ball! Yes, I've got lots more. No, not right now. Enjoy the thread! ~R

I totally agree! At between $50 - $100 per transfer as you explained, transfers are just as profitable as stocking & selling the hardware itself. Some stores will fill every line of a 4473 (multiple serial numbered items) for one fee and others will NOT. Where this all falls off the rails is here on the forum. Members & lurkers are cheap, and ask about transfer fees daily. Some will spend a tank of gas & tolls to avoid the $50 - $100 highly profitable transfer fee brick & mortar shops WITHOUT A RANGE need to survive post 'Rona shutdown... The "Good ol' Boy" personification of the Fudd NJ gun owner, the "Regular" if you will, is starting to fall by the wayside (FINALLY!) as FFL's are seeing so many first-time gun buyers----AND LOTS OF THEM ARE WOMEN! Treating people right, offering SERVICE with the sale, brings people back. Some stores operate like the cheeseburger guy on Seinfeld, and some actually care about customer relations. The store that gets a good buck on a transfer has the ability to "be nice" in other ways, perhaps with a discount on cleaning products or some free paper targets, etc. Or the third transfer is FREE, just pay NICS... Point is, there's ways to treat people nice and not lose your shirt IF you have a good baseline to work from. To THAT end, when was the last time someone here proudly stated they paid $50 - $100 plus NICS and felt great doing it? Fearing the "Cheapsters" attacking them in droves with "You got robbed", "You're stupid" or some other asininely juvenile shit, they keep their good feelins' to themselves and await the next thread on "WHO HAS THE CHEAPEST TRANSFER FEE?"...

Paul, GFH doesn't charge a transfer fee to MEMBERS, just the NICS "You a member here? No? It's $xx dollars for the transfer....OR BECOME A MEMBER TODAY FOR JUST $xxx and we'll waive the transfer fee." Post-'Rona & with a giant expansion to finish the GFH bidness model WORKS! ~R

Every store can make their own bidness model. It's their right to do so. Some want to drive people thru the doors for paperwork (transfers) hoping a real sale will take place while others set their transfer fees to drive transfers for non-members & guns having to be shipped to them AWAY. The REALITY CHECK: Joe Blow orders a gun from "Bud's" & has it shipped to LGS. Joe Blow, all excited, calls LGS to notify them that his gun is on its way. So when the pink card holder behind the counter has to chat with Mr. Blow about a gun they make next to nuthin' on, everybody else at the counter trying to spend $, on the phone looking for an in-stock item (trying to spend $), or a person that rented a lane that needs more ammo (trying to spend $) HAS TO WAIT while Joe Blow relays tracking info he could have just emailed to the LGS... With all the Newbies buying guns needing shown how to insert a mag into the grip & drop the mag for a reload, now magnify the amount of time a pink card holder has to invest with each new customer that might be one of the 135,000+ complete Newbies that NEVER RENTED OR HANDLED A FIREARM and just woke-up to gun ownership. Gun stores aren't 7-11's. Pink Card holders don't grow on trees & there's only so many of them to go around...and it takes a while to get approved and receive your card (just like a FID), so you can't take a Wally World door greater & put them behind a gun counter in Jersey... Some Pink Card holders are still A-Holes that tell customers that hollow points are ILLEGAL and that gun owners have to TRANSPORT via FOPA Rules while transiting solely in NJ! Que the "better safe than sorry lecture" Pink Card holders are famous for... Supply & demand is at the root of all bidness decisions. Some bidnesses decide to not invest the time in dealing with Joe Blow's excitement, multiple phone calls, messages and then the actual transfer when their counters are 6-deep with customers waiting. Things will settle-down eventually and current transfer fees might be adjusted on an as-needed basis. Strictly BIDNESS... Being a capitalist I can understand it all, and I lack the shortsightedness required to bitch about it on a forum ~R

@njJoniGuy I found this little gem just now by accident, lol! Enjoy! @Mrs. Peel You got some acrobatic shoes to fill, lol!

I'm glad you folks like the writing & the video. I'm also glad the skies remained empty and all the crop-dusters were accounted for. The thought of being responsible for an early release of poisonous gas or nerve agent in a less densely populated area next to the water in NJ weighed heavily on my soul, but I was willing to take that risk if it meant saving millions in NYC. The Cops that rolled-up on me no doubt felt the same way. Prevailing wind was blowing out to sea... My photo studio was across from a commuter lot with 24 hr. meters. Several cars had multiple OVERTIME PARKING tickets under their wiper blades. Seeing another one being written as I peered thru my office window on 9-14, I hastily walked across the parking lot & chatted up the Cop writing the tickets. I suggested the owners were most probably WTC commuters and ALL DEAD, and it wouldn't be right for the town to force the loved ones left behind to pay for overtime parking. Our eyes met, he nodded and he collected several days worth of tickets left on all the vehicles. Slowly, one-by-one, the cars disappeared as family came to collect the vehicles. I can only assume some of those vehicles, frozen in time, had hair brushes, lipsticks, and other materials that netted DNA used to match WTC victims... I'm not a Hero. I just did what little I could to the best of my ability in a shitty situation. To be honest I feel like I didn't do ENOUGH, like my little part was of no consequence. Later that day, as I became aware of more & more con-trails from military jets criss-crossing the approach vectors to NYC, I put the Garand away w/o firing a shot. My insignificant role was over...

@USRifle30Cal OK, hang-on while I cry some more..... Here's what I posted today on my Facebook page: 9-11 isn't just "another day" for me. Armed with my M1 Garand & several en-bloc clips of .30-06, I sat in my backyard looking for crop-dusters because several were still unaccounted for. Several central Jersey airstrips are within a few minutes flight time of my house and could easily be the source of the next phase of the attack. I was praying to NOT find any as I scanned the eerily quiet sky adjacent to the mouth of the Raritan Bay within sight of the WTC. The Cops pulled-up & asked what I was doing, so I told them. They told me to "SHOOT FIRST & then call it in on a LANDLINE since the government SHUT-DOWN CELL SERVICE"! There were no crop-dusters armed with poisonous gas / nerve agents headed for NYC! My unrecorded effort seems a distant memory today... I lost wedding clients working at Carr Futures in the WTC. They met, fell in love, got married (I was their Photog) and picked-up their wedding proofs. She was pregnant. They found her DNA at Fresh Kills landfill in Staten island, never found his. Both families came to my studio to make parent albums. Not a dry eye in the studio! As we cried together, I told them I'd make TWO bridal-size albums since (2) small parents albums were on the contract, and the extra expense was on the house. Today I'm reliving the joy & sadness of that encounter. This year more than usual. I have no more tears left. God Bless the souls of Mr. & Mrs. Michael Resta & their unborn child! I'm taking a Facebook break today. I'm OUT... From today's CNJFO Facebook page: "ALL AVAILABLE BOATS! ALL AVAILABLE BOATS!! THIS IS COAST GUARD GROUP NEW YORK VHF-16! REPORT TO LOWER MANHATTAN FOR EVACUATION!" A simple VHF Channel 16 radio transmission on the official "emergency channel" so designated by the USCG. For those that don't know, it's probably the only direct communication means between our government and its' population. If it could float, IT RESPONDED! Not since the evacuation of Dunkirk in WW2 has a response been so overwhelming. Dunkirk took 3 DAYS to clear the beach of 300K Troops. On 9-11 these men & women took 500K+ off Manhattan in only 9 HOURS! Here's their story. On the 19th anniversary of this tragedy, we choose to remember the GOOD in people.

I can't bring myself to tell my story after reading Nick's (again--I've read it before). Hugs Nick! ~R

^^^Yes & YES! Leave the hand guns at home and take a pump or break-action scattergun. Make plans to visit a scattergun facility (Skeet, Trap, Sporting Clays) write them down & put them in the vehicle you're traveling in. Should you get T-boned & have yer guns splayed-out all over the highway, you now have a legit reason to HAVE them with you in the vehicle, UNLOADED & stored separately from the ammo Hand guns (all types) and AR-15's are considered evil weapons of death & destruction, so leave them HOME in Jersey since you probably don't have a NY state SAFE Act compliant AR w/ pistol grip that bends-around and makes a stock, right? If you're a "one-trick Pony" and only own a handgun, yer S.O.L. Just ask the last two Jamokes that went into the woods in Orange Co. NY last year with an "ARSENAL" of "ILLEGAL" firearms & blasted away. NYS Police tracked them down & thru them in the grey-bar hotel...

BLIMEY THAT'S A GREAT PHOTO!

@Zeke Perhaps you'll all get the reference now:

@Mrs. Peel Your "personal commentary" is like Spock's "best guess" flying a Klingon Bird of Prey to slingshot around the sun to time travel forward in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. Meaning it's often exceedingly correct to a fault, lol. Remember that "personal commentary" can always morph into an Op-Ed format. Opinions, especially those expressed by female shooters (instead of fat, bald, white guys) delivered in an Op-Ed format are quite readable. Facts & figures are nice, don't get me wrong, but POWER emanates from OPINIONS formed by the majority. The ol' "hey, I feel the same way she does" goes a long way at capturing the reader & forcing them to the finish line. Dry numbers, expressed without a story or EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT tend to make readers fall asleep and/or scroll-on by & not share the piece I'll shut up now and let you GET TO WORK (DAMMIT!)... ~R

You're 99% correct. Many, many moons ago....if you registered your "Assault Weapon" prior to the famous Florio Ban kicking-in, you could own it legally through "Grandfathering". I believe the "Grandfathering" was only good for the owner when said owner was still breathin' AIR, so the estate of the deceased owner would then have to sell said "assault weapon" out of state, since at THAT juncture no legal means of legal NJ to NJ transfer was allowed. With the death of the original owner, the grandfathering died with them... Now at 61 I'm still fairly "sharp" & didn't do an actual look-up, so I'll beg forgiveness now if I'm wrong. But I do remember a calendar "cut-off" to legally register "assault weapons"! Present day the term "grandfathering" is about as meaningful as talking about Do-do bird eggs. Oh, and whoevva this lawyer is that you quoted----HE'S A SCHMUCK! Doesn't know SHIT from Shinola! Rosey