maintenanceguy

In south jersey, you have a lot of hunters. Far more hunters than handgun shooters. If you're also opening a shop, you might be leaving money on the table if you're stocking more handguns than shotguns.

The surface is usually harder than the rest of the item. The surface gets "surface hardened" by heat treating. On lots of stuff I've had to drill, I've used a grinder to knock off 1/16 of an inch of metal on he surface at just the place where I need to drill. I've read about (but never tried) using a center punch to "disrupt" this surface hardened layer. If you can center punch it, at least your bit won't slip. And then drill with a small bit. Be aware that the inside surface will be hard too and it's common to break a bit when you reach that layer after drilling through the soft and chewy center.

I have a holster in my center console. When I'm visiting America, I carry when I'm out of the vehicle and when getting into the vehicle, the gun goes into the center console next to me and I close the top of the console.

CCI is dependable but once in a while you get a failure to fire. No big deal. I usually insert them into the chamber again and make sure the primer strike is in a new spot and I have never had a failure the second time through. i don't like leaving live rounds on the ground.

I don't think I ever learned to shoot. I learned to use guns earlier than I can really remember. I mean, growing up on a farm and in a hunting family guns were used to hunt, kill livestock and eliminate problem animals. I don't think I really thought about guns as anything other than tools until I was a teenager and bought my first rifle. I met a bunch of modestly anti-gun people in college who were great people but had strange ideas (to me) about guns. It seemed strange to me because guns were still just tools to me and I couldn't fathom being against hammers. I invited them all down to the farm to shoot one weekend and it became a regular event. That's probably when accuracy, other than what's needed to kill an animal, became something that mattered.

Recently I've been thinking how much I depend on the internet. I use it to learn any new skill that I'm interested in. I use it to stay in touch with everyone. There are several SHTF scenarios where it would benefit to government if we all had a hard time getting information and communicating. Or at least scenarios where they would prefer that the only available information was their message. I would be shocked if there wasn't already a plan on a shelf somewhere for taking down the internet and one for limiting internet access to "approved" information. Do you have a communication or information backup plan?

Add an outdoor range for rifles. I can do almost 400 yards on the family farm now but would like a place to stretch out a little more.

Shelf life of bleach is at least 6 months. Beyond that it still has disinfecting properties but the actual amount of clorine does decline over time. If I need to disinfect water for more than 6 months, I should have followed plan B long ago.

household bleach can be used to purify water - no energy expended.

Remember that Delaware's AG is Joe "turn in your guns" Biden's son.

Any ruling wont' apply here unless SCOTUS hears the case.

Schools in NJ are now required to hold 1 fire drill and one "emergency" drill each month. Emergency drills can be lock downs, evacuations, active shooter drills, bomb threats, etc. They have already become meaningless. If there ever was a real shooting, locking yourself in your classroom won't help - NJ schools are required to have locks on classrooms that can always be opened from the inside even when locked so everyone can get out in a fire. NJ schools are also required to have glass in every classroom door to prevent anyone from inappropriate activity with a student. So...anyone with a gun, hammer, or rock can break the window and reach in and open the door. How have schools decided to combat this? By keeping paper next to the doors that can be taped over the windows in an emergency. Nobody can get in if they can't see you. Magic paper saves lives!

I always like that the information that's put out for the public good always gives safety tips that are designed to make sure the criminals target someone else. As if our elected officials aren't just shifting who is going to be a victim.

I believe that police need to be "certified" or at least have the "approved" training to carry the grownup pepper spray. But that's an administrative policy, not the law. By law, police can carry weapons of any type. By law the only non-law enforcement that can carry are criminals.

In NJ, it is a "permit to carry a handgun". Not a weapons permit. It also does not specify "concealed". I guess in NJ, ccw is really pch.

A sand bag or other heavy bench rest is definately better at getting your rifle absolutely rock solid steady. But a bipod works fine too. If you want to practice your shooting so the skill can be used anywhere other than the shooting bench, you need to use the equipment you're likely to have with you. With a bipod in prone position, you can get rock solid enough to shoot as good as most rifles can handle.

I bought this one from ebay and it was delivered yesterday. http://www.ebay.com/itm/picatinny-adjustable-foldable-spring-return-rest-sniper-hunting-rifle-bipod-M50-/260986420330?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc400bc6a Looks like the same one the original post shows except I also got the barrel mount. The bipod seems to be quality. The barrel mount is not great. I had to grind 1/4" off the bolts to get enough clearance for the bipod to mount on the barrel mount and the screw holes are oversized enough that I'm afraid the screws will pull out. I'll probably end up tapping the holes and using a bigger screw. Mounted it on my Mosin "poor man's sniper" last night.

Lots of us carry when we're out of state. Those of us that are lucky enough to live close to the border like to shop and eat in America whenever we can. Many NJersians have non-resident permits from other states.

Build a big factory in Camden and the factory will want to best employees. They will look outside of Camden. A factory, or any other business could not survive if they had to rely on the available employment pool in Camden. Education of children might work in generation II if the parents weren't telling their kids that the teacher is wrong and that they don't have to listen in class, do homework, sit in their seats, or not take weapons to school. Right now, there is no winning in Camden. The best we can hope for is for a few strong, determined kids to grab their boot-straps and climb their way out to make something of themselves somewhere else. We can't help. We largely are responsible for making Camden what it is by trying to help people to do everything they needed to do for themselves.

I prep simply. We buy a little extra each week and we typically cook meals from our stock and shop to restock. It's not real organized, we just have a pantry that's fuller than most. I live in a rural area so there won't be any infrastructure to collapse around me, I don't have infrastructure now. I keep enough gasoline on hand to fuel both vehicles and that gets used and restocked for my mower all summer. I have an acre and a half so my mower gets a workout and my gasoline supply gets refreshed regularly. We would really miss electric but could survive without it. I have a generator and my gas supply would keep that going several hours a day for a week or more on my gas supply. We have a well and could get water with a hand pump I picked up used and could install on the top of the well head in a few hours with misc. plumbing parts I have in the shop. The only thing that would really hurt us is if we ran out of heating oil in the winter and couldn't get any more. I have a wood stove in my workshop and could move that into the house. The old chimney still has the thimble where a wood stove was installed once. but I don't have enough wood to last more than a couple of days. I've cut plenty of firewood in my life but I don't own any woods now. I've only done a couple of simple things to prepare and I'm comfortable that we could survive in relative comfort for a couple of weeks with no resources from outside - except for fuel oil or wood to burn.

I'm sure Evan's advice would be that it may not be legal so don't touch it. Lawyers have a duty to keep their clients legal which means erring on the side of caution. I'm sure everyone knows you can get the same effect by pulling forward on the forearm an holding your trigger finger rigid with the elbow tucked tight against your body to help keep the trigger finger from moving with the gun. The recoil of each shot pulls the gun back and pulls the trigger off the trigger finger. The steady pressure forward on the forearm pulls the gun forward and trigger against the trigger finger. Can be done without the slide fire. Although, the slide fire does have a tab that keeps the trigger in the right position to make it easier.

I'm rural. Rarely anything happens around here. Over the weekend 2 deli's were robbed at gun point within a few miles and a home was robbed while someone was there. It was probably the same 2 guys. Everybody here hunts. They're going to pick the wrong house.

I took a loooooong time deciding too. I eventually went with the Ruger LCR but was back and forth between the LC9 and PF9 before finally deciding on something a little smaller for ccw. But I liked the Ruger better. The quality and finish seemed better than the KelTec.

NJAC 13:54-1.2 Definitions (4) "Firearm or firearms" means any handgun, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, assault firearm, automatic or semi-automatic rifle, or any gun, device or instrument in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired or ejected any solid projectile, ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet, or any gas, vapor or other noxious thing, by means of a cartridge or shell or by the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or explosive substances. It shall also include, without limitation, any firearm which is in the nature of an air gun, spring gun or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling force is a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas, or vapor, air or compressed air, or is ignited by compressed air, and ejecting a bullet or missile smaller than three-eighths of an inch in diameter, with sufficient force to injure a person. This definition has been the law for a long, long time. What recently changed was the list of violations that require mandatory sentences under N.J.S.A. 2C:43-6© "The Graves Act. The Graves Act originally required mandatory sentencing if you were convicted of committing a felony with a firearm. In 2008 NJ Senator Bob Smith sponsored a bill that added these violations: Unlawful Possession of a Machine Gun, Handgun, Rifle or Shotgun, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:39-5(a), (b) or ©. Possession of a Sawed-Off Shotgun, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:39-3(b). Possession of a Defaced Firearm, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:39-3(d). Possession of a Firearm While in the Course of Committing a Drug Distribution or Possession With Intent to Distribute Offense, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:39-4.1(a). Possession of Certain Weapons by Persons Previously Convicted of Specified Offenses, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:39-7(a) or (b)(2). The Manufacture, Transport, or Disposition of a Machine Gun, Sawed-Off Shotgun, or Assault Firearm, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:39-9(a), (b), or (g). The Defacement of a Firearm, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:39-9(e). Since, in NJ, a bb gun and airsoft gun is a firearm under the definition and the Graves act requires a mandatory 3 years for unlawfull possession of a firearm. Several people have been charged since 2008.

All gun sales in NJ are registered. P2P for handguns and ffl book for long guns. Buy from private individuals out of state. Or on any street corner in Newark, Jersey City, Camden, Trenton, or Atlantic City.