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I took a 2 hour drive north up to the Tampa Florida fair. Before I left I checked the Fair web page for their policy on CC. I found very little. After we parked the car I was standing at the main entrance ticket booth and noticed metal detectors and a few deputies. I walked up and asked if concealed weapons were permitted on the fair grounds. He asked if I had one. I told him I did and he asked for my CWFL. He got on his radio and ran the number. It came back with my full name and he said follow me around the line and the metal detectors. He than said have a nice day. I waited for my wife and noticed other deputies escorting others around the line as well. Very professional law enforcement agency.

She does not need to do anything as long as the rifle is NJ legal. It's hers now. Registration in NJ is strictly voluntary. And, as the saying goes... "never volunteer"

That's our only hope, as there is no chance of a legislative solution at this point.

100% truth

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I'm a writer in the industry and often get asked to do my own photography as well for my content. It's a new world for me and I could use more reps to improve my skills behind my camera. So if you'd like photos of yourself shooting, send me a PM and it'll cost you nothing! My only requirement is it must be an outdoor range, no indoor pay to play ranges (unless you have privileges to take over the range alone and we can shoot outside of the port) and we can shoot outside of a bench...if your range allows you to slide benches away so you can shoot standing/kneeling/prone etc that works. I'm working with a Panasonic Lumix FZ-1000, fixed lens camera but has a leica lens with a lot of configurability....I just need to get some experience shooting, playing with shutter speeds exposure and then editing with photoshop. Here's a sample of what I'm currently capable of, and this was just playing with the self timer on a solo range trip and a little bit of photoshop. We can arrange a trip to my range or yours, I'm pretty flexible.

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/

According to the Delta website on firearms or shooting equipment it all goes to special handling area. May be a new thing but actually gets you bag out sooner. Almost like priority when I traveled first/business class. So no complaint there. Took less than 2 minutes to collect right adjacent to the carousel. My only unexpected thing was the tie wraps. It’s not like I can carry scissors or a pocket knife on the flight to get my bag open so that was a bit odd.

I just as soon deal with national reciprocity with all the different rules in each state.

I hope the mods make a sticky on the forum to remind my fellow 2A supporters to put up or shut up.

Just a heads up and I'm sure you all are aware that there are states in which you must notify the LEO that you are CCW at traffic stops. This is the case in SC where I live. So after I greet the LEO that's the first thing I tell him. Automatically give him DL and CWP. Most recently as I was going for my wallet he asked where the weapon was. I just tapped my hip with my wallet and said "right here". All went smooth of course.

So I need to re-gift it? Thanks.

No classes, but lots and lots of matches.

... the New England Patriots select A TIGHT END

Sweetness https://www.gunbuyer.com/walther-ppq-m1-9mm-5-barrel-fiber-optic-front-sight-2-mags-2826721.html#

Awwww I feel so bad for him - NOT That'll teach him to go to a Rub-n-Tug !

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.

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.

It's Hammer Time!

YOU CANT SAY MONKEY!

Picked up this true perfection of a piece yesterday from one of our FFLs on the forum. It is supposedly a Jersey City cops duty gun. Well, her future duties will be as a backup pig slayer carrying 6 wonderful rounds of Buffalo Bore 180 grain hard cast bullets. Winning

Ok, I'll say it again... Look at the Springfield Armory Mil-Spec. 6ish should get you in the game. Shoot the p*s$ out of it. If you choose to, you can: A) upgrade and work on it yourself. B) send it to a 'smith to have it worked on. C) shoot it as is. The Mil-Spec is an amazing base pistol. It's also a pistol that most smith's will work on without reservation. The frame is forged. That means, if you decide to get the frontstrap checkered there will be very little chance of a void. They also are pretty within "spec" so there isn't a ton of straightening to be done on them. They are as classic as it gets with only rear cocking serrations. Or, you can spend the coin little by slow and have it turned into a personal version of the SA Pro. Your call. I have one and love it. I've done work to it and enjoy shooting it when I'm in the mood for shooting 45ACP (which isn't often). It's just an awesome gun.

hey! im under that threshold and my ass had no problem filling in the little circle next to AC's name and I splurged for an overpriced "forever stamp" on it lol I even got my cousin in Alaska to vote for AC too !

treat 99% of LE with respect and follow the rules and you won't have a problem. This is pretty much the rule for most life with most people and things

#22 REDEFINING MISUSED TERMS THAT ANTI'S LOVE TO THROW IN YOUR FACE! HOW TO DEFEAT ANTI GUN ZEALOTS AT THEIR OWN GAME! IN THE BATTLE FOR MINDS, COMMUNICATION IS KEY! By Theresa Inacker, CNJFO Communications Director & former Managing Editor of the Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal Thursday January 31, 2019 www.cnjfo.com/join-us Language matters in our battle to keep and bear arms for all lawful purposes. NBC in New York recently reported that a New Jersey man fought off an “unwanted house visitor.” Of course, “unwanted house visitor” is a euphemism for more truthful phrase “armed intruder" conducting a Home Invasion! The rights-minded individual immediately recognizes these sugar-coated phrases, but there is nothing sweet about it. The anti-rights mob is subtly commandeering the narrative, influencing the people in the middle - those who don’t yet know what all the fuss is about. The people in the middle hear about mass shootings, and assault rifles. They hear about universal background checks, common sense gun laws, and preventing gun violence—and they think, who could be against that? Only bad people, of course. Make no mistake, my patriot friends, these word games are deliberate. The anti-rights mob follows their “Gun Control Playbook” ensuring they are effectively communicating their message. Why don’t we do the same? Here are some examples of how the anti-rights mob is using language against you, and how YOU can take back control and use effective communication. WEAPON: You should call it a Firearm. Weapon has a negative connotation. None of my firearms have ever been used as weapons. Many of you may have learned this in basic NRA courses. ASSAULT RIFLE, ah, the most ubiquitous phrase: why not ask ‘what is an assault rifle?’ There will be no answer, or it will be a vague reference to any scary black gun. Take the opportunity to educate someone who knows nothing about the AR platform. Let’s call it the MODERN SPORTING RIFLE. MILITARY STYLE WEAPONS: This automatically convinces the folks in the middle that any scary, black gun in the hands of a civilian is something beyond his or her ability to own and handle, most excessive and unnecessary and it should be forbidden. NEED: Nobody NEEDS (insert any subjective number greater than one) firearms, nobody NEEDS a military style weapon unless they’re going to war. It’s A RIGHT; not a NEED. Did Rosa Parks NEED to sit in the front of the bus? No, but you bet your life she had every RIGHT to. MASS SHOOTING: it is mass murder. Let’s call it what it is. MURDER. HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINE: STANDARD magazine in free states. FULL-SEMI AUTOMATIC; the anti-rights mob thrives on conflating the semi-automatic firearm with the automatic. This is to scare the folks in the middle making them believe that “automatic weapons” are around every corner and about to kill them, diminishing your ownership of anything semi-automatic. UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS: background checks to which criminals never have, and never will submit. PREVENTING GUN VIOLENCE: this is code for stricter controls on the law-abiding only, with zero effect on violence. VIOLENCE IS VIOLENCE and we are AGAINST VIOLENCE. COMMON SENSE GUN LAWS: more anti-rights demands made against the law-abiding. SHOOT TO KILL: this is how the anti’s refer to STAND YOUR GROUND LAWS. WILD WEST: lawful concealed carry, especially for Pizza deliveries in Sen. Weinberg's Teaneck, NJ. WELL-REGULATED: the anti's never apply correct historical context to this one. Put simply, it means a standard of readiness needed to join the fight for American Independence. Like two front opposed teeth to rip open paper cartridges of powder & ball. The anti-rights mob avoids using facts or waiting for facts to come in after any event. This is deliberate and straight out of their handbook. Just like never letting a crisis go to waste. Emotions drive everything; facts are not of interest to the anti-rights mob. Facts hurt their cause. The anti-rights mob uses individuals (ex: Stoneman-Douglas students; remember the Newtown, CT parents paraded into the NJ Senate chambers by Sweeney and Weinberg?); Put a FACE on it- this is also in their manual and very deliberate. MILITARY STYLE WEAPONS: This automatically convinces the folks in the middle that any scary, black gun in the hands of a civilian is something beyond his or her ability to own and handle, most excessive and unnecessary and it should be forbidden. We’ve all had those ad nauseum conversations with an anti-rights person spewing the above without knowing any facts. Time to take back the power of language. I simply tell them, if you don’t like the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, all you have to do is change the Constitution. What other euphemisms and phrases would you add to this list? Discuss please!

you should boycott guns. Cops use guns to take guns from other people. Fuck those manufacturers for supplying them with guns