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  1. Here's another scenario. I know what I would like to do, but I am ashamed to say I don't know if would do it...

     

    While driving directly home from your practice session at the range (not stopping to eat or go to the bathroom) you see a police officer in distress on the ground at the side of the road. It appears he made a traffice stop. Three young males have gotten out of their vehicle. Two are punching and kicking him in the torso and head and the third is trying to get the officer's gun out of its holster. You are well-trained and have a handgun and plenty of ammo in the trunk.

     

    Do you intervene? Or do the only legally defensible thing in NJ and just keep driving on by?

     

    Or how about this: After not stopping to help the above officer, you are safely home in your garage and have just finished cleaning your pistol. As you are preparing to case everything up, you hear your next door neighbors screaming. A female goes running into her back yard, covered in blood and slash wounds. Close on her heels is a crazed male with an 11inch chef knife screaming "I am going to kill you!" Though not on your property, this incident is taking place 20 yards away. Do you intervene? Or stay "retreated" in your dwelling as the law asks?

     

    Most ranting liberals I know have a help everybody, save the world mentality. I'm sure it would feel nice to save a life, but I'm not sure I am willing to do it if it would risk a prison sentence and cause my family to lose its source of income.

    This is my point. Actually argued with the wife over the officer scenario. I can't imagine driving by and not helping however I would probably wind up in jail with a family on welfare! It's just insane!


  2. Yeah, the worse alternate is this: during the investigation, the police find your safe full of 'NJ Legal' AR-15s and AKs, and magazines, proceed to forget the laws, overzealous DA sees that you're some kind of gun-nutjob, tacks on Assault Weapons charges and even a few counts of possessing a high-capacity magazines (because they look evil) and possession of hollowpoints (you're branded a psycho in preparation to murder some cops), and you live in a liberal county with a judge who hates you because you dared to act in your own peril and own a gun. You go to jail on a 20 year manslaughter sentence (or some similar length), lose your source of income, lose your house (and all your guns), lose your family, and try to win on appeal... if you get lucky. Even when you do get out, the family of the dead man comes at you with civil suits claiming you caused a wrongful death, literally sucking the last ounces of life out of you until you just want to die.

     

    Throughout all this, the media is constantly assassinating your character, and that douchenozzle who used to run Ceasefire NJ partners up with Sen. Menendez and Lautenberg (He's probably a zombie at this point) to crucify you, and use the event to pass a law called "<insert name of dead guy>'s Law" to protect the people of the (not) Great State of NJ from gun hoarding low-lifes like you. The law requires that you can only buy one gun a year, and the magazine limit is dropped to 10. All guns are to be colored fire-engine read and emit loud beeping noises so police may ascertain that you are armed from the next county over.

     

    So sad but probably so true!


  3. As I am a complete AR newbie I decided to give Ira a shot at building my AR. There was a sweet AR hanging on the wall that I fell in love with. I bumped the budget up a but and asked him to make something great! In a few weeks I'll have pics!!


  4. I am not a lawyer but I have direct experience with the mental health question. I went through about 5 years of misery in my marriage. My ex was a lazy woman who did anything she wanted other than what a stay at home mom should be doing (cleaning, taking care of the kids, etc. ) I am not a male chauvinist but when you choose to be a SAHM you have certain responsibilities to the household. I was working 60 hours a week coming home and cooking, cleaning, playing with the 2 little ones I had, getting them ready for bed, etc practically everyday. I was depressed. Then I found out she was cheating. All in one year I found out she was cheating, I filed for divorce, had to file bankruptcy and lost my house, my mom died from cancer and I lost my job. This is NO EXAGGERATION. It actually all happened within about 8 months from 2008 - 2009. I had been on meds for about 4 - 5 years at that point. I got up everyday, did my job took care of the family, and when I had lost my job found a new one pretty quickly. At that point I was unemployed and my ex had moved out and left me with the kids.

     

    Fast forward 3 years... I have a new woman who is friggin' amazing (and shoots with me). I am no longer on meds, lost 100 pounds (I was fat). I was very nervous about the FID process because of this. I pondered back and forth should I put down that I saw a psych and was on some meds for a while or shouldn't I. I spoke with the lady at the local PD about it and she said to ABSOLUTELY put it down. She said a lot of folks go through that stuff but if you don't put it down and they find out 1. you are NOT getting your FID and 2. You have commited a crime.

     

    So What I did, since these towns make US do extra paperwork I gave THEM some extra reading. I wrote a letter and attached it to my FID app with all my doctor info, exactly why I was being treated, and that I am no longer on the meds anymore. I made it completely available to them. I will talk about it with anyone (as you can see) because I am not ashamed of it. I made a conscious decision to keep myself in check which is more than we can say for even some LEO's out there that beat their wives and have anger issues. Sorry but there are plenty of them but THEY can have guns. So in my eyes I did the responsible thing and not ignore it.

     

    The end result was I received my FID on Feb 10th of this year. Again I am not a lawyer, but this was my experience so I think that honesty is the best policy. I guess an attorney can tell you how they check for your mental issues, but if you want the FID just tell the truth.

    Congrats on getting through the rough ride. We all have them. I'm sure ur kids make it all worth it!

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