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  1. It's feasible. Just need the National Guard. Wait for that shoe to drop next...
  2. Had an anti-gun friend text me this evening asking what gun to buy just in case. It's true what they say about there are no atheist in foxholes...
  3. Well, the good thing is we’ll know in a few weeks if this was a nothingburger or real deal. The panic and intellectual masturbation is wearing me out.
  4. It's not SHTF until people start pulling guns/knives on each other and people start dying in hospital parking lots. Toilet paper and shutting down restaurants is child's play. The ship has sailed on testing and containment. Back of the envelope math, we have ~30K hospital beds (source) in NJ for a population of 9 million. Assume generously that those 30K beds are ICU and ventilator equipped. At what point in the medical system overwhelmed by Coronavirus patients requiring ICU/hospitalization (i.e. 9 million population x infection rate x hospitalization rate greater than 30K hospital beds for the duration of treatment)? You can play with the formulas and math for flexing the beds and rates, but in Italy, the ER's are triaging who gets to live and die. What are you going to do if you or a loved one is in the unlucky X% that needs to go into ICU with respiratory distress? More importantly, what's the guy next to you going to do? If people start cutting in line at the ER or hospital parking lot, is someone going to pull a gun? Let's hope it doesn't get to that point, but who knows?
  5. "States of emergency" can equal "no gun/ammo sales while in effect" Also, a couple months ago, the prospect of Angry Joe in the White House was unthinkable. Now, it's a possibility. It's 2013/2015 again! Maybe grab that cheap ammo and AR lowers while you can?
  6. https://www.yahoo.com/news/asian-americans-terrified-coronavirus-backlash-161833574.html As the number of confirmed 2019 novel coronavirus cases continues to multiply, many Americans are emptying store shelves of hand sanitizer, bleach, and canned goods. But there’s an acute fear among Asian Americans that the virus’ origins in China will spark a violent xenophobic backlash. Along the West Coast, where the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in the U.S. have occurred, those fears seem to be spurring a surge in gun sales. “People are panicking because they don’t feel secure,” said David Liu, who is Chinese American and owns Arcadia Firearm and Safety, which is just east of Los Angeles. “They worry about a riot or maybe that people will start to target the Chinese.” Liu said his store had seen a fivefold increase in sales over the past two weeks. He’s sold out of Glock handguns, and some customers have requested to buy his entire inventory of ammunition branded for home defense. “They think it’s Costco,” he said. Coronavirus Is Scary Enough for Some People to Risk Deportation According to Liu, the surge customers are overwhelmingly of Chinese descent. They worry, he explained, that in the event of mass panic, they might face violence because of their ethnicity, and be easy victims because of their historically low rates of gun ownership. Surveysof gun ownership don’t usually track Asian Americans separately, but instead include them in an “other” category that is typically very small. As The Los Angeles Times has reported, since the first novel coronavirus outbreaks in the United States, Asian Americans have experienced intensifying venom, including bullying, racist comments, and harassment. On February 24, a man of East Asian descent was assaulted in central London. One of the assailants reportedly said, “I don't want your coronavirus in my country.” “The main thing I’m hearing is that they don’t wanna get jumped because of their race,” said Cole Gaughran, the internet sales manager at Wade’s Eastside Guns in Bellevue, Washington. Gaughran said his store has seen a sixfold increase in sales in the same two weeks. His new customers, most of them first-time gun owners, were almost entirely of Asian descent, he said. Bellevue is just a 15 minute drive from Kirkland, where at least 11 people have died from the virus. There’s no way to get an accurate accounting for how many people buy guns on a weekly basis, or in real time. However, in Washington, local police departments do process background checks for most first-time gun buyers. In Bellevue, police say they’ve registered the spike in demand. Meeghan Black, the police department’s public information officer, said that since August of last year, the department has processed a steady average of around 158 checks per month. But in the first four days of March, they handled more than a hundred. “The officer who processes these checks said he’s been processing the last ten years, and has never seen anything like this in his life,” she added. A stack of firearm transfers slated for processing from this past weekend’s sales. Black said the department normally sees about six of these every weekend. In nearby Lynnwood, Washington, the local police department saw no such increase in firearm sales. But at least one local gun shop did. Tiffany Teasdale, the co-owner of Lynnwood Gun & Ammunition, said she, too, has seen a sixfold increase in sales over the past two weeks, predominantly from Chinese-American customers. “We’ve had a line of customers before opening Thursday through Sunday, and customers in the store until 10 to 15 minutes after closing.” she said. “We used to sell from 10 to 15 firearms in a weekend. [We sold] 60 firearms just [last] Saturday.” Teasdale said that nearby stores had seen increases as well, and her distributors had run out of 9mm ammunition. “It’s been happening for the last four or five days,” Teasdale said.” A lot of our distributors nationally are saying that all of their warehouses are empty. None of them know why.” So far, police departments and civil rights groups in cities experiencing increased gun sales had received no reports of violent attacks against Asians. The Bellevue Police Department said they hadn’t received a single complaint since the first U.S. case of coronavirus made headlines. Robin Engle, a spokesperson for OneAmerica — a Seattle-based nonprofit focused on immigrant rights — said that while the organization was aware of people avoiding Asian restaurants, it had not heard about any hate crimes in the Seattle area. When told about the reports from gun-store owners, she said, “It is alarming that people are afraid that that can happen to the point that they’re going out and buying guns.”
  7. It’s getting interesting out there... Flight Headed To New Jersey Diverted After Passengers Seated Next To Person Sneezing, Coughing Became Disruptive
  8. What color is the boathouse at Hereford?
  9. First case in fort lee. Who woulda thunk it.
  10. Food for thought: Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
  11. People were already camping out in line from this morning for tomorrow's rally. Good luck! https://nj1015.com/people-already-lining-up-monday-for-nj-trump-rally-tuesday/
  12. I would look around your sister to be honest. St. lucie, fort pierce, Jupiter or Ponce inlets. Those would put you near the Gulf Stream for mighty fine fishing. also, Port Malabar range nearby is pretty good. Ft pierce and nearby cities can be dumps but you largely avoid the south Florida sprawl
  13. Is the Surefire brake on the OBR a SFMB-762 that allows SOCOM suppressor attachment? Thanks.
  14. Saw this on the Gram. Never know when you’ll need to run and gun in the old jalopy...
  15. Been noticing an influx of NY/NJ “tax migrants” down here in South Florida. Things are definitely trending bluer than it already was here especially post-Parkland but it’s still better than NJ. I don’t get it. You vote liberal for higher taxes than you have to leave because of those taxes and infect other states.
  16. Good luck. Washington Nationals victory parade is this Saturday now.
  17. WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

    HK53

    Probably the finest 5.56 rifle ever made including the M-16 and FNC
  18. New to me Service Grade CMP 1911. Remington Rand slide on an Ithaca frame circa 1944. Note the "Yawman" stamped trigger invented by Ithaca. Markings include Augusta Arsenal (AA), Anniston Army Depot (ANAND), Frank J. Atwood inspector (FJA) and some others I'm still deciphering based on coolgunsite.com. It's like I'm trying to decode the Rosetta Stone to figure out the provenance of the parts. Sent in the paperwork about a year ago, got a 9500 range lottery number, forgot about it and wrote it off, and then my cell phone rang last Thursday at 9AM from Anniston, Alabama. Took her home today (you gotta love Florida and $15 no-hassle transfers). Was it worth the price compared to what I could have bought 1911-wise in today's market? Probably not. But, it pairs nicely with my CMP Garands and it's cool AF!!!
  19. I miss Star Tavern in Orange. Not sure if it’s the best pizza evah but I think about it a lot.
  20. Squadron of C-47 Dakotas are gathering at an airport in Oxford, CT now before flying over to Europe for the 75th anniversary D-Day festivities. They will flyover the Statue of Liberty this Saturday May 18th. Thinking Liberty State Park in JC should be prime viewing for any old warbird fans. http://ddaysquadron.org/d-day-squadron-launch-week/
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