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That'd be a lot funnier if it wasn't true.

A good opinion piece on the NRA Blog. Opinion: Less ‘Friendly Fire,’ More Common Cause https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2017/6/opinion-less-friendly-fire-more-common-cause/ How about we all try to show a little more respect for our fellow gun owners.

This thread could stop right here at the video I posted almost 3 weeks ago. This is how to do it. Done

That however is true of all money every, in every form, material, or source of issue.

Reliability is 100% if you do it right - Just a barrel and mags is good enough for a range gun. If you are going to use it for SD/HD or any social purposes, the proper ejector, extractor assembly should be installed as well as the conversion barrel and mags. As far as litigation - If your use of deadly force is legally, ethically, and morally correct and you are found to have used appropriate force in the defense of yourself or another you can use a frying pan, a kitchen knife, a curling iron, your car... hell, light them on fire. It doesn't matter. From a criminal justice standpoint, when it is all over and your use of force is justified using a .40 pistol converted to 9mm is not going to be an issue. Civilly, you are getting sued no matter what.

I will also point out the the US dollar has failed multiple times already. It's not the end of the world. We chugged along in the end.

The number is exactly right. What they are telling you is that, all other variables held equal or average, it would take $456.19 today to buy exactly the same thing that cost $100 in 1975. So my $100 bill I put in the drawer in 1975 now pays less than 25% towards the same item.

Because sometimes you bought a .40 and now you want a 9mm. Sometimes you are issued a .40, so you buy your off duty guns in .40. Then your Dept switches to 9mm. You can convert your .40 Glock pistol to 9mm for less than $250. A G19 used will cost more than that. Sometimes you want 1 pistol that can shoot multiple calibers. One thing I realized this weekend, if you just swap in a 9mm conversion barrrel and use a .40 ejector, the spent brass ejects to 6 o'clock and comes right back into your face. Very distracting.

not me!

Your $100 dollars in 1975 would be worth $465.19 today according to http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1&year=1975 I can't vouch for the accuracy, but it sounds right to me.

You can still refer to vlads post above. Even if it's gold or silver, you can't eat it. So it's value is assigned by what people will trade for it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Iv been to Orlando.. its almost Puerto Rico

I have found the overwhelming majority of gun owners - both here and through shooting activities - to be very gracious, eager to share their knowledge and not judgmental at all. And at least on this forum, when people do get a little bombastic with someone new, I often see other people stepping in to temper the conversation a bit. This site seems pretty good at self-moderating. And I would hope that most (if not all) of us can agree that with the rising tide of anti-gun fervor and well-funded misinformation campaigns, making the shooting sports as welcoming as possible is not just about politeness, it's a 2A survival strategy.

I see Mrs peel finally used her permit

Here's an actual model 99 manual. The slide stop spring hooks around the rear trigger pin, as i thought, to secure in place. You need a punch to knock the pin out and then tap back in. Exploded diagram page 28 http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/FIREARMS/s&w_99.pdf

And I will Back up Steve's remarks buy saying we have sold well over 400 Century built rifles and the only one to ever go back was a C39V2 that had a case split in the chamber from using surplus ammo. The barrel got scored, and CIA replaced it under warranty even though it was not their fault in a 9-day turn around. That was 4 years ago and the guy has several thousand rounds through it w/o a single problem. We sold I.O. early on, that lasted for about a month - the single worst AK ever made, I'd take a kyber pass made rifle over an I.O. any day............

George your the man.

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You said "The only issue appellate judges rule on is the issue brought forth in the appeal. ". Was the issue of possession outside home or its "manifestly appropriate" manner outside raised infront of court ? If anything, from the original case, it was undisputed that the person stayed within his apartment area and did not step outside the boundary. On the other hand, I hope that comment helps next victim of NJ anti-2A system if someone were to get screwed for opening their door with handgun or HP ammo.

AR in 308

I pulled up the story on my beloved nj.com... Everyone must read the article to understand silliness, stupidity and outright illegal (as its against US Constitution) activity across NJ legal system. 1. Everyone from responding LEO, their superiors, the prosecutor and a Judge proceeded to participate in the drama what was supposed to be a no-brainer from get-go. 2. self defense for first count but not for second ? To an untrained eye, it would appear that the NJ Judges doesnt want to come out as Traitors to the Constitution, so they give pass on one but not other ? 3. If I am reading correctly, you are unlawful possession of a weapon (according to a trial Judge), unless its a case of spontaneous and compelling danger ? So I guess you cannot carry a weapon but ok to grab one and shoot someone in a spontaneous situation. This may be answer to all those "can my wife use my firearm .." questions. Wonder how some of these people in position of legal authority sleep at night. Full Case: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/nj-supreme-court/1863588.html --------------- Daleckis called the police and Montalvo was arrested. He went on trial on two felonies, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a weapon. The trial judge's instructions to the jury included a self defense instruction on the first count, but not on the second. And during deliberations, the jury sent the judge note asking about self defense. The judge answered by reading from case law that that described self defense being limited to "cases of spontaneous and compelling danger." -----------------

"Persons may lawfully possess weapons in their homes, even if possession of those same weapons may not be manifestly appropriate outside the home." Dont think so. Unless someone show me otherwise, the topic of "possession outside the home" was neither at issue nor the panel was asked to rule / comment on. That little nugget was slipped in, on purpose. Judge should have kept his little finger to the question at hand.

If more Newbies showed-up to my PPC Match there would be less DQ's in local action Matches . IMHO everyone should learn how to WALK before they try to RUN with a loaded gun. We've had to DQ more people in the last 2-3 years than ever before. Primarily due to lack of gun handling experience as Vlad mentioned above. Why is this? I have an answer: Gun owners are in general so cheap if it cost them a nickel to shit they'd rather puke! Meaning, in general, they're too cheap to join a private club and learn thru osmosis taking baby steps---OR----they're too cheap to spend real money on basic or intermediate classes before they show-up to shoot action leagues. They spend money on getting CCW permits but they can't operate their mag release, safety, de-cocker, etc. They're DANGEROUS to be around. We solve these problems if given the chance in our league. Trouble is action shooting is like CRACK. One "hit" and you're HOOKED, lol!

A fellow bought a new Corvette and was out on an interstate for a nice evening drive. The top was down, the breeze was blowing through what was left of his hair and he decided to open her up. As the needle jumped up to 80 mph he suddenly saw a flashing red and blue light behind him. "There ain't no way they can catch a Corvette," he thought to himself and opened her up further. The needle hit 90, 100, 130 and finally 150 with the light still behind him. "What the hell am I doing?" he thought and pulled over. The cop came up to him, took his license without a word and examined it and the car. "I've had a tough shift and this is my last pull over. I don't feel like more paperwork so if you can give me an excuse for your driving that I haven't heard before you can go!" "Last week my wife ran off with a cop," the man said, "and I was afraid you were trying to give her back!" "Off you go," said the officer.

The new NJ Legal pistol after the next election:

The big problem that I see is that when it gets to point where you really need to start counting rounds, i.e.: the last half of the mag, the follower is inside the magwell and you can't see the tritium. On a pistol mag, it's even worse. The whole mag is inside the grip. If you are going to pop the mag to check rounds remaining, you should probably just tac-load.

HE got it Sent from my SM-G925P using Tapatalk

It's a summer night in the 1970's, during one of the gas crises, around 2:00 AM. I'm tooling up 206 north between 287 and Chester, the 'death strip' where a lot of people met their makers. I'm in my Fiat 1200 Spider, top down, doing probably 70 in a 55 zone. Then in my rear view mirror there's the red and blue bubbles and the conversation begins. After I explain i was going home from my second job and just being foolish trying to get home quicker to get some sleep before morning comes, the officer, being economically conscious, says: "The President's asked you to slow down, the Governor's asked you to slow down, do you suppose if I ask you to slow down it would do any good?" To which I burst out laughing and said "I guess I'd be a flaming idiot if I didn't!" No ticket. "Have a safe night." I never forgot that. And behaved accordingly ever since.

If it's a situation with potential criminal implications you SHOULD STFU and not say anything to the police. I've posted this link many times. It CAN and WILL hurt you to be "honest" if you've just run someone over or been caught holding the proverbial bag. A criminal trial or pretrial interviews -- WITH YOUR ATTORNEY PRESENT -- provide you with sufficient time and preparation to tell your version of the truth. If you tell the cop "I think he was reaching..." the officer will destroy your credibility in court by testifying that you weren't sure, and he'd be right. Traffic offenses are totally different. It's not really law, and traffic court is not really court. It's a revenue thing pure and simple. If a cop tells a judge you did 85 in a 35 he will throw the book at you even if you were only doing 30 in a 35. If you were in fact doing 85 not saying anything or acting like a Youtube Lawyer is not going to save you. In essence your apprehension, trial, and sentencing occurs right there where you were stopped. Your only hope during a traffic stop is to be polite, deferential, and remorseful to the cop. Once you're in court you're losing 99.9% of the time the cop shows up.

Like it matters. Your balls are already kept in a jar

He is right. We are screwed right now. All bubbles burst. Tech, Housing, S&L, Oil, etc. What goes up must come down. Now the stock market is a tremendous bubble. The bigger problem is there is a tremendous amount of debt. Federal Debt, Sovereign Debt, State and Municipal Debt, and Personal Debt. The biggest problem is we have no ammunition to fight an economic downturn. Interest rates have stayed at record lows for too long. Inflation is much worse than the official government numbers that strip out food and fuel. Right now the Fed has a point til we are back at zero. More QE will just increase inflation. We need a major market correction. Fed should have raised rates 4 points by now. The problem is Wall Street is running the show. Greenspan would have crashed this market a long time ago by raising rates. We would have been better off for it. Inflation and worse yet Deflation is the coming problem. A market correction is needed but it is too late Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk

Just a couple of thoughts. In all of recorded history there isn't a single instance of a fiat currency that didn't eventually fail. The U.S. dollar is fiat currency based on debt. Yes it will eventually fail. (Check with Venezuela.) In my amateur opinion there is no solid financial reason for the stock market to be this high. With interest rates at 0% it's the only place since 2008 where some money can 'make' more money. If you can and do sell at a price higher than you bought. So it's a financial game of musical chairs. Yes, it will eventually collapse like every other bubble in history. And our government cannot continue decade after decade to promise more than it can responsibly deliver and cop out paying with more and more public debt. (Not to mention the political ramifications.) Social Security is a simple money transfer machine, not an investment in someone's future. (Do you actually know where the Social Security Trust Fund is, and what it is?) And let's not forget Medicare and Medicaid. So yes, this will all collapse too. The question is when? And why? No one knows. So the music plays on. Care to grab a chair? "The trouble with money Bud... it makes you do things you don't want to do." Lou Mannheim, Wall Street

Psychology You start with a cage containing four monkeys, and inside the cage you hang a banana on a string, and then you place a set of stairs under the banana. Before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana. You then spray ALL the monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt. As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray ALL the monkeys with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new monkey. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, ALL of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original four monkeys, replacing it with a new monkey. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment - with enthusiasm - because he is now part of the "team." Then, replace a third original monkey with a new monkey, followed by the fourth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. Having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the Banana. Why, you ask? Because in their minds, that is the way it has always been! This is how today's House and Senate operates, and this Is why from time to time, ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME! DISCLAIMER: This is meant as no disrespect to monkeys.***

Wanna know what it's like to be a cop... Try that on for size at your job.

I should have said in my last response two things most burglars don't want to deal with is alarms and dogs. That's an easy answer but not easy to do. Getting a dog includes caring for it and can be a radical lifestyle change for many. Dogs have to be let out, fed, and cleaned up after on a daily basis. There's no spur of the moment getaways as you have to make arrangements for the dog if you can't take it with you. Getting a dog is similar to having a kid but you can't stick your kid in a crate or lock them in a room if you're going out for a few hours. All dogs can't have the run of the house when no one's home. Now I know some that call themselves "dog people" that can just go out and get another when their dog dies. I'm not one of them. My last dog died at age 13 almost two years ago. She was a great defender of her turf. When she got sick I spent several thousand dollars on a rescue dog to find out she couldn't be saved. There are plenty of dogs in shelters that are there because someone suggested to their former owners "get a dog" for some reason. A gun or an alarm is easier to take care of and won't give you the same amount of emotional distress if it dies. If you get a dog get a rescue.

Coincidentally, I just got pulled over again this morning. I had just left my house, running late for work, and as I went a little too quickly up the hill around the corner from my house, I spotted the unmarked car of our local PD. When I saw him pull out, I immediately pulled over and got my documents ready. He was polite and professional, and when I explained my situation, he treated me kindly. I expressed my sincere gratitude. The unloaded shotgun in the back of my vehicle was never a subject of conversation.

I ran across this place while doing while working on an NJGF project. Glad they got the FFL and excited by the idea of another range, (that what? 4th at least or 5th proposed/in process) range in NJ. Unfortunately, I think they picked the wrong time to start building a rang with the political environment. Secondly on the money side of things... If you want to build a "nice" place, such as RTSP/GFH/TTC, you need to be able to burn a LOT of money, particularly if you want to invest in great ventilation. Unfortunately that means you need to invest more in the rest of the range/store or you need to be able to charge A LOT more to justify the nicer place. This is where you have the struggle between what's good for the gun owner and the gun owner community and being able to keep the range open. As bad as it sounds, "unlimited" memberships are a horrible deal for most ranges, particularly the more costly ones. Your typical "gun gal/guy" will buy the membership and that's it. They will not be buying ammo at the range, and typically will not be renting guns. A $300 membership, assuming someone goes once a week, is like making $6 per visit off of a shooter. Meanwhile, a brand new person who is going to go pay for a walk on, rent a gun, buy some ammo, targets, rent eyes/ears, is easily going to spend more than 10x that. Next you have the issue of capacity. During the week, it is slow. On the weekends there are massive lines.... especially if you are still running a 12 to 15 lane range. Last thing you want are members on "unlimited" plans. So what ends up happening, in order to cover the massive monthly expenses, you need to raise the membership prices or go to a membership-discount pricing model. At that point... to a gun owner, pay $500 for an indoor range membership.... or Less than that and have a membership at an outdoor facility that has indoor ranges as well, such as OBRPC, CJ, SJ, etc. The only win for everyone I feel is a place like GSSC/SS type range. A nice facility where you can still feel safe, but that carry lower expenses and thus can still make a $300 unlimited membership work, especially if they have a REALLY good amount of FFL business (new/used/consignment/transfer) and training revenue. For a newly built facility, especially one where you own the building, you need to be prepared to burn a LOT of money or focus primarily on the first time gun buyer and charge higher prices to the small group that can spend $500 a year on a membership to shoot indoors and to be treated like a king. For the current facilities, they are already in the game.... but for the new ranges being planned, and or in the process of being built.... I would think long and hard, particularly in the new gun environment we are going to be facing in NJ. (in full disclosure, I have consulted with a few ranges/FFLs in NJ and am privy to some information on which I base the above post)

Melissa and Andrew are both friends of mine. Reachable thru my Facebook page: David Rosenthal. If nothing else works Zeke, write me a PM and I'll get a cell # for Melissa. Rosey

Really people! Why all of this negativity? If you people get 50% of the info correct at first glance why is it that you're perfectly willing to get the other 50% of the info ALL WRONG? This will be a 5-star NSSF rated range. It will be neither cheap or expensive. It will be PRICELESS, especially in that target market. Some of you are passing judgement about things you actually know nothing about (such as certain rules put in-place by insurance underwriters). Why can't you just be excited that a group of investors has decided to spend millions of dollars to make a nice safe and clean place to shoot? Obviously there are certain "bumps" that will need worked-out (using your own reloads in your own guns, etc.), so give it time, as they haven't even broken ground yet! Rosey

I have a magazine lock coming later this week. It replaces the magazine release button. The previous product I tried was unsatisfactory, as it only prevented the magazine from being released by means of a set screw. The screw could be removed with a tool without disassembling the firearm, therefore I thought it was too much of a legal risk to use. I'll report back after I receive and install it.