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There in Hoboken, you cannot tell the difference.

Great!...that'll be handy for those times when I'm told to go f%#$ myself.

I did 23andme AND AncestoryDNA I am 100% 'murican.

Striker = PPQ Hammer = 1911

Striker fired? VP9 all day Hammer fired? Beretta 92FS

Fixed it for you.

Are they still inspecting range bags looking for contraband?

As far as the 2A community is concerned, the optics on this are terrible. Anti-gun democrap controlled Oregon destroys guns and Benchmade, a donor to the democraps, aids and abets the destruction. Benchmade is fucked. True 2A supporters are keeping a log of shit like this. It does not matter if Benchmade donated $5 or $50,000, just the fact that they donated to politicians that are anti 2A is enough. First, some are assuming that all gun owners that turn in guns want them destroyed. that's a mistake. The reality is that anti gun Oregon wants every gun destroyed at every opportunity. This is the senseless murder of guns by a prejudiced political party . Gun lives matter, even if some of them don't work quite right. They are just "differently abled". I wonder, how many M1 Garands were cut up, or how many WW2 1911s or other historic guns because some dimwitted widow did not know what else to do. Bad optics.

I just talked to my inside guy at Henry, there is a lead bullet inside the barrel.

1945 Studebaker M29c "Weasel"

Looks like prime fodder for the next Gun Buyback

I have these three old revolvers. None are functional. All are in poor condition. Any thoughts? Any value? I suspect not. The largest is Harrington Richardson maybe a .25, larger than a .22. No idea on model. Has a patent date of Oct 4, 1887. The mid size is NY pistol co, new york. "Wide Awake". Also larger than. 22 Smallest is "blue jacket no 1." Pat mar 23, 1871. Looks like a .17. Very small

Mods, please relocate if this is the wrong spot on the forum. Ladies & Gentlemen, I'm not good at soliciting for charity so I will be brief. For the last 15 years, the Officer Candidate class for the NJ Army National Guard has organized a 5k charity run at Sea Girt to benefit a soldier in need. This year is a special one because the beneficiary is a fellow Officer Candidate going through OCS with me. His story is one that makes me thankful for good health many of us enjoy: - OC Glaser supports his wife Haley, who has a rare form of cancer. To add to that burden, they are amazing parents to 4 young children. Health insurance does not cover all of their medical expenses and Haley is unable to work with her condition. The full materials are accessible on the website below. Direct donations are always the simplest help but please reach out to me directly (PM, email, phone) if you have other ideas or fundraiser opportunities to discuss or share. Thank you. https://www.sgtnutterrun.org/

The barrel length lowers the pressure. It's a pistol cartridge using pistol powder with pistol burn rates. Most all of them are done burning powder and experiencing a pressure drop by the time they reach the end of longer barrels. They are designed to hit their specs ina 6" test fixture.

your assuming im talking about myself but no, nothing was declared on the paperwork

Sigh. Come on folks. Yes lots of this is speculation, but in theory educated speculation. Why won't folks be civil about it. Squibs, if indeed you aren't referring to something different because you use the jargon different, don't guarantee nothing but an undercharged round. Some folks will use it to mean a primer only, no powder load. Some will use it to mean anything drastically undercharged so as to induce a malfunction or dangerous situation. You may well be talking past each other. I know Maks is talking from pistol shooting experience. And yes, In the pistol shooting world, shooting out a squib does happen without rupturing the barrel. It is not usually done without harm. It'll ring the barrel usually. You'll see this come up a lot in the land of 1911s because the platform is designed to fire a 20k psi cartridge, and with modern metallurgy and because the platform was overbuilt to being with, it happily digests 35k psi .40 ammo all day and night. So in the world of bullseye where some of the shooters might as well be shooting air pistols based on muzzle velocity of their mouse fart loads, squibs do happen, and they do get shot out, and the pressure level isn't that high. In USPSA or IDPA it is more common that the more common faliur is BANG - bang- BANG-lockup, no obstruction. Where the squib lodged in the barrel and the shooter and RO didn't notice or catch it in time, and the bore is clear because the blockage was shot out. THe lockup usually occurs because the barrel is ringed. With a bull barrel 1911, it may not even really stop because you have so much steel at the point of the impact and the fitting is less picky than a bushing gun. Such internet trolls as the H&K engineering team designed the USP pistol and as part of the vetting of the design, they required it be able to shoot out a squib round and still function (yes, it damaged the barrel, but it would still feed and fire). This is all different than a rifle round in a rifle. MUCH higher pressures there. But in this case we are talking about pistol cartridges in a carbine. When evaluating PCC for static steel, we chroned a bunch of carbines. Many of them shooting hot .38 super to drive comped pistols. These were generally hitting .357 magnum velocities out of 5" barrels. Out of 16" barrel they were hitting... the same velocities. Which was a surprising result, but the truth. By the time you are 14" down a 16" or 18" lever gun barrel, the pressures have dropped to WAY, WAY below the 35kpsi in the chamber at ignition. The shooter claimed to be shooting both .357 and .38 special. So we may be talking 17k at the chamber. There are literally a BUNCH of ways this can happen based on teh pictures. And BTW the pictures look like the metal was thinnest at the cut for a particular groove of rifling So it split there cleanly. You can see similar thing with banana peeled barrels, you can also get rifle failures where you don't peel the barrel, but ring the barrel and split it at the stress risers where the lands and grooves meet. Sometimes those ring type bursts only breech one side because the button cut that groove a bit deeper. Pistol, rifle, regardless of cartridge, unless you have an overcharge seriously kabooming things, have a high tendency to split along the rifling. Which are fairly linear. From my experience, overcharges are what tend to cause random fracturing of gun bits. But that is pretty much at the action end of things for obvious reasons, and thus involves area where the stress risers likely aren't straightish lines. So what do we know from the shooter? They didn't notice any change in accuracy. If there were issue with the barrel, it could have shot like poop from second one. IF the shooter sucks, they may just not be accurate, or were using it at such close range you couldn't tell the difference between marginal shooter and "whoa that's not right". Lever guns are not the most accurate things. They were shooting both .38 and .357 IIRC (since the initial post has been wiped I gotta rely on my memory). This can lead to things. So what can we say? It didnt' blow up at the action. Thus it probably wasn't an overcharged round. It is technically possible there was no obstruction. IMO for that to be feasible, there'd need to be a defect in the metal or something really messed up about the machining. But a crack forms at a stress riser at the dovetail cut from it barrel whipping or something, and it would crack along the cut and swell until pressure dropped enough. That might not happen until it hit the weakest land groove interface and then it tore up that. I don't consider that high probability. The other possibility is that there was an obstruction. There's LOTS of ways this could happen. Some of them REALLY non obvious. 1) Muzzle in the dirt or equivalent. Sure. Maybe. In a rifle cartridge definitely, but .357 and ESPECIALLY .38 special out of a lever gun, I'm doubting it unless there was also something wrong with the metal or something grievously out of whack with the machining. 2) Left a cleaning jag in there or similar. depengin on the way it went down and the chocie of tools, marginally more likely than sume dirt in the muzzle. All the below are potentially assisted and or exacerbated by potentially bad metal, or by the fact that the dovetail cuts in the barrel often cause minor constrictions of the bore. 3) Squib round. Undercharged, leaves a bullet in the barrel. Full powered round. BLAMMO. 4) Mixing ammo. Lets say you were mixing lead 38 special and SJHP, SJSP, or JHP .357 with it. It headspaces off the rim. .38 is shorter and leaves a ring of soot and lead around the chamber mouth. Then the .357 gets the jacket stripped off it when this build up gets hefty enough. gets hung up at the binding you get from the dovetail cuts. The partial obstruction gets shot out as fragments when the barrel splits. 5) something like a SJSP gets peeled by the tight spot and repeat some form of the above. 6) shooting soft lead, and it scrapes a bit off at the binding near the dovetail cuts. repeat above scenario. 7) There's a crack or other defect that starts to bulge but not rupture. Something like really weak .38 special lead loads (maybe they bought some cowboy loads?) are barely trickling out the barrel to start and once bulged enough pressure drops and obstruction. Fire another round and it cracks but shoots out the obstruction or it goes flying once the barrel opens up. etc.

I am aware of at least one other person doing the same thing and having no issues with the FID

Here's my DNA.

Nope, I did not list my shrink appointments on my application. I didn't even remember about the shrink visits until a few years after I got my FPID. Oops.

I had to see a shrink multiple times when I was young. Court ordered because my parents were in the middle of a nasty divorce and custody battle. I had zero problems getting my FPID card.

Since home defence is a primary objective, the P30 Lem would be my suggestion. There are so many pluses to this configuration for that objective. One of which is giving your brain that last bit of runway to make a shoot/no shoot decision. Some will say its not as fast as a striker fired trigger, I say SO WHAT, and my timer refutes that position anyway. But the real world safety advantages of this system outweigh the insignificant performance differences, real or imagined.

Found a locksmith that sells/programs my style fob for $150. Gonna go next monday to get it done. I tried one of the vendors you see on FB all the time. 1st he said I was too far away (mobile unit) (trunk of his car?) so I offered to meet him half way. Set up a time and place. Long story short he stiffed me and tried to blame it on me! I was there on time. He wasn't. That and his bad broken english turned me off to the whole deal. I feel better going thru a brick and mortar locksmith. But...we'll see.

What’s the BEST way to gather information on your citizens?? Make it ‘fun’, so that they give it up voluntarily. Facebook, and other social media. These DNA geneology tests....

Since I'm not a striker fired fan, it's P30. Plus I own 3 of them.

Well, I think the right question is, what are you doing with it? It will guide the answer.

I try to leave as much DNA around as I can. But I try to do it in a more entertaining fashion than scraping my cheek with a qtip.

Funny thing though, our "guys" are actually "gals". Henry won't investigate the gun, they don't care. Replace it and move on. It would be a waste of time to go after the owner or ammunition manufacturer. They want the owner happy, so he buys another Henry. Win win

.... when a thread goes past dumpster fire level...

Funny you mention that... I called my guy at Henry and he said your guys a jerk

I like Leatherman's. Skeletool for EDC. It is light and has all I need but it isn't my FAV. design. Wave or Rebar when venturing in the Woods for a hike. Keep Wingman's in vehicles. Have a Supertool packed away with camping stuff. Have a Squirt? too. Gave my wife a Gerber.

My inside guy said your inside guy was looking at a reflection of his pupil. And that he was very gassey today.

Looks like a great place for radio controlled boats.

No, it was bigger.

Oh, the scout car? That's still kickin around as well

Yes, usually walk in and done within an hour.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Do want to pick up some older guns but revolvers are not my forte and generally have as old as 1960s.

Holy hand grenade of Antioch, do NOT try to fire these pot metal trophies. Here are my twin five-shooters. The top is a Forehand Arms, seems to work and I got it for $95. The bottom gun is a Hopkins & Allen and the trigger return spring is missing. These were likely made in the same Connecticut factory. I scoured Numrich but have not yet found the proper spring to make a repair. These shoot Smith & Wesson 32 Short Blackpowder loads. I found old advertisement that touted "flawless operation through 937 rounds of smokeless powder test firing." There were a lot less lawyers in advertising back then so we can only suspect what happened on the 938th round! Even thought I went through the effort of sourcing proper blackpowder ammo, I don't have the guts to try to blow up the only thing I have from my grandmothers (the broken gun was hers and, yes, there is a story). I'd love to meet up at Cherry Ridge to put all of these side by side. https://www.buffaloarms.com/32-s-w-short-black-powder-ammo-311-90-grain-lead-fn-box-of-50-amobp32sws

Fuck PSA Edited to Add CDNN and anyone else who refuses to ship stuff to NJ. RSR can suck my nuts as well.

It's zeroed for 100, few inches high at 50. I bought mine from one of the on line places (Kentucky Gun Company?). They sent me an email saying they couldn't ship the gun with the 17 Rd magazine. I told them to ship it without any they did.

No

Okay, thanks for clarifying that Martin.

Correction: Carhartt if you work outside (or you like east coast rap) Dickies if you work inside (or you like west coast rap)

You guys know Levi is no go anymore... correct? https://www.nraila.org/articles/20180907/levi-s-teams-with-billionaire-michael-bloomberg-to-attack-gun-rights

Not a shotgunner - I've only shot trap once - never skeet, but the search for "mini-clays" jogged my memory. Probably for the older members here, but does anyone (other than me) remember Mo-Skeet? I think officially it was Mo-Skeet-O, but we always just called it Mo-Skeet. Small clay pigeons (maybe 3" - 3.5" in diameter and you shot them with a pump-action .22 LR loaded with shot shells. IIRC, Winchester even made a smooth-bore .22 just for this purpose. I think I encountered it at Boy Scouts (and yes that's what accounts for my stellar character today). Adios, Pizza Bob