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Try drilling and taping the exposed end of the pin. thread a screw into the threads you've just cut and pull it with the screw. Try screwing a self drilling screw into the end of the roll pin and pulling it with the screw ( a slide hammer would be great if you have one) If the pin is too hard to tap, a cobalt bit can be used to drill the pin out. If the bit gets stuck, good, pull the pin using the bit. If the bit does drill through, the thin shell of the original pin should be weak enough to remove with needle nose pliers. A small carbide ball burr in a drill will eat the pin like it's plastic - just be sure you have everything clamped and something to brace yourself so you can keep the burr where you want it. If you can find a burr for a dremel, this would work even better and with more control because a dremel turns much faster.

Surprised they need to run a promotion to sell ammo right now.

The embedded video above says the suit inflates in "zero point five seconds" (around the 2:05 mark). Maybe the video is wrong and there is other info somewhere else that says 0.05 seconds.

If you have a permit from the state where you are employed for an armored car company, you can carry in any other state while doing your job. Many armored car companies have their headquarters in DE or PA and this allows the guards to carry in NJ.

If it really takes 1/2 second to open, that's 44 feet at 60mph. I can hit a lot of stuff flying 44 feet before it offers protection.

The 600 may include armed guards but probably not armored car drivers. Armored car guards are allowed to carry by federal law - no state jurisdiction. 600 applicants total is 28 per county. I'm sure there are at least 28 armed guards per county.

Another poster posted this company earlier: http://www.customizedcreationz.com/services/machining.html They custom machine firearms including machining a groove in the slide to mount a red dot sight. This seems like a very interesting set up and I'm interested. My concern is that a red dot sight might not survive the ride back and forth on the slide too many times and certainly won't stay sighted in. Curious if anyone has done this and what your experience was.

Even though I'm the OP looking for suggestions, I'll share a few of our best day trip locations. We really enjoyed the Sterling Hill Mine. Interesting tour of the underground mine shafts and a good museum. Takes about two hours to do the whole thing. The whole family enjoyed it even though my wife felt a little claustrophobic a few times. I found the technology of digging, drilling, and blasting tunnels a mile underground pretty cool. My 6 year old loved it. We've done DC a few times. Stayed in Arlington and have gotten great rates at nice hotels lately. Especially liked the 3 room suite (sitting room with pull out, bed room with two beds, and kitchenette) at the Homewood Suites - perfect for our family of 4 for a couple of days. The metro is great compared to the NYC subway - clean, on time, helpful employees. The Smithsonian museums and monuments are all paid by our taxes, food is available from "grease trucks" around the tourist attractions. The metro made it easy to visit Chinatown, the spy museum, and when we were tired of being tourists, a 30 minute metro ride had us back at the park-and-ride 3 minutes from the hotel. One of the least stressful and most enjoyable long weekends we've done. Baltimore Harbor works well if you get there early. The aquarium can be uncomfortably packed by noon and sometimes the whole day's tickets are sold out before noon. Get tickets online before you go. We park at Camden Yards. It's probably an 8 block walk to the harbor but trying to find parking anywhere else in Baltimore has been difficult and we've always found lots of parking at Camden Yards (Lot C) for $8. We also discovered the secret to affordable meals at the Harbor for tourists. Right at the harbor, on the corner of Calvert and Pratt Streets. There is a nice food court on the top floor of the Gallery mall. Tourists don't seem to know about it even though it's right across the street from the harbor. I have a conference in Baltimore every year and was given this insider info at the conference. And if you're looking for quality meals instead of economy, walk west on Pratt Street and you'll find several nice places between the harbor and convention center. the Kona grill is nice but I'm sure other places are too. Straussburg Railroad in Lancaster is good for kids. The dining car is the way to go but can be expensive because you pay for tickets onto the dining car and then pay for your meal. But eating while you ride makes the time pass faster and lets you multi-task and still relax. Plus, there are lots of other things to do in Lancaster when you're tired of the trains. Best done in early or late summer. July crowds are huge and I hate traffic. By late summer and fall, the railroad can drop you off at a pretty nice corn maze. When you're done getting lost in the corn, hop back on the train for the ride back to the station.

Thanks everybody: We ended up just doing a tour of the tourist traps in Lancaster County. Planning a trip the night before is never a good idea. But these are great ideas. I'm printing this and I think we're set for the summer now.

Yes, a hike. Probably not for this weekend but I just googled this and we're definately going to check it out sometime this summer. Thanks. looks very interesting. Any suggestions on a good place to do this, where to find a boat and captain?

We just shoot in the back yard. My daughter suggested this too. I told her this is a place for teenagers to go with someone else's parents. I always wanted to do this. Then something happened to me. I'm not sure what it is but I get nervous on a ladder now. Maybe it's just age but heights didn't used to bother me but somewhere along the line, I become a coward when it comes to heights. The last time I was up in the air, I had an after hours emergency at work. Instead of calling anyone else in, I just took the bucket truck out myself - something I normally don't do. I spent the next half hour clinging onto the side of the bucket. I got the emergency solved but next time I'm calling in someone else. We've actually done this recently. I highly recommend this zoo to anyone in the area with kids. Great zoo and the price is right. I prefer cape may to the philly zoo - mostly because the crowds have always been less.

to me, the girlyness that's accepted in so many men is not just about being bad at tools and fixing stuff. It's how much time you spend plucking your eyebrows, how much you care if your belt matches your shoes, if you choose to go see the neighbor who's playing his radio too loud (not for a fight, but with a smile and handshake) or whether you hide from him in your house, whether you stop to help the stranded motorist or just drive by, whether you care which wine goes with fish or beef or pop-tarts, whether you get involved in office gossip or shut it down when it reaches you. Lots of real men never learned to operate a milling machine but still walk and talk with a little command presence, don't shy away from minor conflict, and are self confident enough to take a stand - even if your stance is different than mine.

I've been there climbing too. Was probably late 80's. Still have a crate full of climbing gear in the attic that hasn't seen light in almost 20 years. I'm sure the harnesses wouldn't fit like they used too.

We've been to fort mott a lot. I don't know anything about the ferry. I'll have to do some research.

Looking for day trip suggestions for some family fun tomorrow. It looks like 3 young teen girls, a 6 year old boy, and two 40 something parents all looking for something to do. We're in south jersey and looking for something within a couple of hours drive. We've done DC, Baltimore, Lancaster, Lewes Ferry, Cabelas. I've you've found something fun in NJ, DE, PA, or NE MD, I'd like to hear about it. any and all suggestions appreciated.

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I grew up in the southern rural part of NJ. Everyone I associate with hunts, shoots, fixes cars, knows how to weld, has cut their own fire wood, has poured concrete, knows how to pilot a boat, can start a brush fire on a drizzly morning, has eaten something they killed themselves, and thinks nothing of grabbing a rifle, shotgun, or handgun to dispatch some wild animal that's hanging around too close to the house. I realize that I'm very fortunate. We don't have to dress up in tactical gear and drive to the range with our guns hidden our trunks to spend half an hour acting manly. Maybe we're a step above cave dwellers but we're resourceful, self reliant, independent cave dwellers that don't have to pretend to have feelings. I lived for about 10 years in central NJ after college. I always felt like I was the only guy in the whole county that knew how to do anything for myself. I always wondered why everyone else was so content to depend on others for every little aspect of managing their own lives from calling the super to unclog a drain to taking a taxi 5 blocks to work. I've been back in my rural, manly world for the last 15 years and I had forgotten how un-manly parts of our state really are until a few days ago. My wife has been shopping for a car. She found one she really wanted to see and it was in Princeton so I took a day off to drive up to Princeton and see the car. We ended up liking it and buying it but this meant spending half the day at a dealership dealing with lots of different "men" to get the deal done at the dealership, the bank, a late lunch at a restaurant, and a little shopping. We were both struck by the high levels of estrogen that seemed to be flowing through every one of the "men" we met. It's not something I can't clearly put into words but if I was in a fight for my life, I'd want every one of the "men" we dealt with on the other side of that fight. I feel for the actual men on this forum that aren't lucky enough to live in a place where men are expected to act like men.

With a pistol large enough to get a solid grip and at least a 6" barrel I can shoot 6" groups at 30 yards fairly consistantly. If a 3" circle is 7sq-in and a 6" circle is 28 sq-in, it seems that my 6" groups would make me miss a 3" circle 3 out of 4 shots. Wow, I felt pretty good about my shooting until now.

No need to scare kids. The real risk of a school shooting is tiny, tiny, tiny. I actually figured it out after Newtown. I figured out the number of school shootings over the last 3 years and the number of schools in the country. I even included administrator suicides, drive-by gang shootings, etc. The results: A school should expect a shooting once every 22,0000 years. This is not enough reason to scare kids (or to pass laws).

Yes, the bill proposed in the US congress did do these things. It required all transfers to be done through a FFL with a NICS check and loaning a gun is considered a transfer. My example was letting my brother use my shotgun to hunt. Could result in a long jail sentence for both of us.

No. Ranges are not attached to the two shops I'm thinking of.

In lots of gun shops, everyone behind the counter carries and I know they don't all own a part of the business. Different rules for FFLs?

That was what I was looking for. Thank you. And yes, it looks like there were only 600 applicants in 2011. I wonder if this includes armed guards that need to carry as part of their job? If so, there were almost no regular citizen applicants.

Several months ago, I had found the supplemental documentation submitted by both parties to the court after the case had been heard. these included the number of CCW permits issued by NJ every year for the last several years. I can't find them online now. Does anybody have the URL? thanks.