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Zeke needed to cut down several trees on his property. He went to a chainsaw shop and asked about various chainsaws. The dealer told him, “Look, I have a lot of models, but save yourself the time and aggravation and get our top-of-the-line chainsaw. It can cut a hundred cords of wood a day.” So Zeke took the chainsaw home and began working on the trees. After cutting for several hours, he decided to quit, having only cut two cords of wood. The next morning he got up at 4 AM and cut until nightfall, but only managed to cut five cords. Convinced it was a bad saw, Zeke went back to the dealer who sold it to him. The dealer removed the chainsaw from its case and examined the unit. “It looks fine,” he remarked, and then proceeded to start the chainsaw. Zeke clapped his hands over his ears and shouted, “What the hell is that noise?”

You sir, your wife, and your whole family are in our prayers.

Greenday sat down at the bar and told the bartender, 'I'll have three shots of whiskey, please." The bartender replied, "Three shots? Are you celebrating something?" "As a matter of fact, I am. I just experienced my first blow-job." Greenday responded. "That's great!" said the bartender. "I'll give you a fourth shot on the house." "Don't bother," said Greenday. "If the first three shots won't get rid of the taste, nothing will."

As for another prep item, I'm going to see if I can find a portable pulse oximeter. We've known for a while now that Covid-19 patients often show up at the ER with Low pulse ox, presenting as Hypoxia. When they are X-ray'd double lung pneumonia is almost always present. People are often dead shortly thereafter. I've read a number of articles on how CV is kicking Iron out of the hemeglobin and starving your body of Oxygen. What I didn't understand until just now is this: This particular article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html?referringSource=articleShare See that bolded, underlined bit? That's the key. That's what brings it all together. Anyone who has had pneumonia can tell you that you are well aware that something is wrong. These patients ARE NOT AWARE. So for prep for pandemic or at least this pandemic? Get a pulse oximeter. It will tell you or anyone who sticks their finger in it if they are having a problem and are not aware of it.

@matty The home route will most definitely strain all those involved. Some time in the future, all those involved will know it was worth the effort, will be glad they did it, and derive comfort equivalent to their sorrow. I speak from direct experience. Do what you must. I am not a particularly religious man, but God bless you sir.

I've had a G19 since 2012. While I don't shoot it much, I do enjoy it and am fairly accurate with it. I'd suggest that once the lockdown is lifted, you find a range that has both as rentals and try them both concurrently. When you decide, you can use the forum's price request for our vendors / sponsors here: https://www.njgunforums.com/forum/index.php?/forms/2-handgun-price-request/

Welcome to the forum. And when in doubt of which gun to get, always remember the answer is a Sig...

And shortly after writing my giant screed about demonizing one group vs another for the exact same thing. Here's a politico article https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/21/southern-governors-create-a-covid-19-coalition-and-experts-fear-a-perfect-storm-1278753?fbclid=IwAR0qufIsGJCZiQNzTX1pE5TI9exU1gOjZmvFjlFlsPqpEayfbXYUkM-TwC8&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark Summary is basically coalition of southern states banding together to develop a plan to reopen are a bunch of hicks who will kill us all, and that the norther coalition of governors banding together to develop a plan to reopen are noble saviors. Because they are democrats and thus not stupid hicks. Sorry fat, stupid, diabetic hicks. Because the difference between NJ's 27.7% obesity rate and Georgia's 31% obesity rate is so vast it will prevent the apocalypse. I mean they have numbers.. Numbers from SCIENTISTS. Except their numbers are from a group started by the very unbiased.... The Atlantic. Oh shit they aren't unbiased. Not even a little, sorry. And the article claims that georgia, according to the numbers form the atlantic have only tested one hundredth of one percent of their population. The article was written yesterday.. by smart people.. who can't fucking do math all the time, because while Mississippi does have a testing rate of 1.7%, Geogra is at 0.8%. The very not apocalyptic new jersey is at a whopping 2%. NY leads the pack at 3%. But trust the smart journalists. Because their testing rate for the northeast coalition is also wrong. I just think they don't know how to calculate percentages. Or maybe they don't know how to look up population. But They definitely said making a plan to reopen geogria is bad. Georgia with about 1% of the population tested. Making a plan to reopen NJ is definitely good. That is despite the fact that - GA has about a 28% positive test rate compared to NJ's nearly 50% positive rate on tests. -That unless GA is rolling back testing their daily rates of new positives are dropping a lot. (peaked on 04-14, and has fallen off significantly. NJ also peaked 04-14 and has.. well fell off a teeny bit and is holding a plateaue. -The vast majority of infections are in 6 counties out of 159 covering more land mass. The most population dense counties. Using similar metrics (i.e. most infected county plus all counties own to 1/3 of the peak infected county) for NJ, you have 9 counties out of 21 and betwen 1/3 and 1/2 of new jersey land mass. Does it mean that it is safe to reopen georgia? No. A number of counties without a large number of infections have a a high per-capita infection rate. If you are turning symptomatic people away from testing in those counties due to lack of medical infrastructure, then you may be masking a hazard. This however IS an answerable question. New Jersey on the other hand has more data. If it is possibly not safe to reopen GA, it is DEFINITELY not safe to reopen NJ. It may be possible to alter policy safely in both places. But even if you doubled all of GAs numbers and weighted it towards "oh shit people be dying" they'd still be better and more spread out than NJ. ANd have one major airport in the whole state instead of 3 of the busiest in the country, the NE corridor, every major east coast interstate, significantly more utilized mass transit, being sandwiched between NYC and Philly, etc. But no.. NE = brilliant non-trumpian strategists. SE=stupid hicks.

Amazon released this show awhile ago and I just shrugged it off. Well, I was wrong. Excellent show, well directed, quality script and awesome idea. If you haven't watched, you will be hooked after the first episode.

@matty - I too can attest to what was (so beautifully!) stated above. You are/will continue to be exhausted... caretaking for a loved one and keeping them in their home is a truly selfless act. That said, caretakers need help, too! Make sure you're as generous with yourselves as you can be with the outside assistance. You can't take care of her if you don't care of yourselves. Best of luck to you.

The Heritage Foundation has a project that includes an interactive map to track defensive gun use in the 50 U.S. states. The individual incidents also report available details. So far in 2020 they've recorded 155 incidents.

Thanks, I really appreciate it. It runs in her family (10% of cases do), her mother died of ALS in 2011, and two other relatives years back. This is the 2nd time I have had to deal with this, much worse now with her only having a few weeks or months left. And 3 teens at home trying to get schoolwork done while locked out of school and I still have to work on site, etc....but enough whining. I have learned more than I wanted to about genetic testing and ventilators and medications. There's no cure for ALS, of course, but each person is totally different in how it affects them. Her mother lost speech and ability to swallow long before she could not walk. My wife is unable to move any part of her body except one hand a little. She was able to speak and eat however, normally, until a few weeks ago. She does not want to go to a nursing home, so we have people coming in to help. It's still a major toll on her and everyone else. Get out and enjoy your lives and everyone while you can, don't live in fear.

If all you see are roadblocks, you will never get anywhere.

Paying my exit taxes to get out of this state will be the happiest day of my life!!!

They said they found the AK in his backpack. To fit in a backpack, it had to be a folder, most likely not pinned, making it fit the definition of an assault rifle. You don't need a FID to have a handgun in your house so he must have had some prior convictions making him prohibited from owning any guns. I'm sure they added the large capacity charges as well. Just didn't make the press release.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QQ1XCRN/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_s2zOEbKMSCR4G This is the pulse ox meter I use for my daughter who has asthma. Works well for an adult but its kind of a pain in the ass to get a kid who is possibly having an asthma attack to stay very still to get an accurate reading

Your list consists of 2 $325- ish guns and the $550-ish Glock 19. If you can swing the Glock, that would be the choice. Many aftermarket parts, holsters etc. Magazines are available everywhere for reasonable prices. The Glock has legendary reliability. I am sure the Ruger is a fine gun and they have a great reputation for customer service. Taurus has a hit or miss reputation for reliability. Yes, the Glock is more money, but it is the gold standard in its class. As the old saying goes.... "Buy once, cry once"...buy the best you can now even if it hurts a little. If you go with a cheaper option that you don't really want as bad, you likely will eventually trade up to what you should have bought in the first place. EDIT>>> I would add....Go to a shop and handle as many guns as you can. Some people don't care for the ergos of the Glock. I am one of them. I prefer the Sig P320 Compact (similar in size to the G19). Try out a bunch of similarly sized 9mm guns and see what fits your hand the best. Odds are, if it feels good in your hand, you will shoot it better.

The Glock is great if you want something basic that you can customize to hell. There never seems to be an end to the aftermarket accessories that go with Glocks. I personally don't have one because it's not my style, but it's hard to argue against aftermarket support. I prefer to spend the extra cash and get something nicer. It's all personal preference though.

Sounds like good times in Long Branch. How can LEO put up with these clowns?

Welcome. Buy the best one you can, not the most economical item. The extra money will pay off, no regrets. I also have used Howell Gun Works; they are an honest dealer with good service.

Welcome to the forums. Suggest you introduce yourself in the Introductions area. There are many fine brands and models of handguns. I chose the Glock 19 as my first new handgun after being dormant in this hobby for many years. I now own it for 6 years and remain very happy with my purchase. It is my primary HD handgun. My reasons for the purchase included rock solid dependability, great availability of magazines, and availability of replacement parts and accessories. I have since also acquired a G34 and G26. Mags also interchangeable (G17/34–>G19–>G26). so imho a good choice for your first handgun. With that said, there are many other fine choices. And as suggested above, it is desirable to rent and shoot a variety of firearms before making a final decision. You need to see how it feels in your hand during recoil. For example, I rented an H&K 9mm several years ago and discovered the trigger hurt my finger under recoil. Howell Gun Works is in Route 9 Southbound, just north of I-195. Google it. I think it is closet to you. Hope this helps.

I guess he didn't have an FID? I wonder why no high capacity magazine charge, why there was a charge for the handgun, and why the assault weapons charge - was it an automatic AK?

Welcome!

Welcome!

Applied for 2 pistols permits but the lady I spoke with yesterday over at the PD says she doesn't know if the state has people working to mail them the information even though my background check was completed over a month ago. AND ....people still call it Taylor ham???

Welcome!

Welcome! Applying for your ID card in February, you're a little late to the game, but BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. I hope you also applied for at least 2 (if not 5 or 6) Pistol Purchase Permits when you submitted your application. Only $2 each on top of what you already paid, and all you had to do was tick off another box on the application. And before "the breakfast meat boys" here ask (not that it matters to me, I'm a Philly guy), is it TAYLOR HAM or PORK ROLL??

it's awesome

Semi spoiler. Next season will be a clean slate. They do a good job of tieing up the lose ends this season.

Does look interesting. if you haven't watched Narcos on Netflix, it's a must watch. Start with Narcos (about Pablo Escobar's rise to infamy and the agents who pursue him) and then start Narcos: Mexico. FYI - the two series overlap and characters appear in both.

Great show. Great cast and some of the cleanest Crown Vics around.

I agree funding SNAP and making it available to everyone who needs it should be a top priority. As should vigorously prosecute anyone who attempts to defraud the system. I'll admit I'm no economist so the comparison to Germany in the 30's was just my speculation. On the otherhand so was my estimate in mid February that we would see 50'000 deaths in the US. I agree that both sides are trying to use this for political gain. Some will open up too fast and others are trying to see who can close down the most stuff for the longest time. It's all pretty sad.

Safe? As in free from catching the creeping crud and getting dead? We never were ‘safe’.

Free firewood???

Here's the thing. You know when this thing will end? The second that the politicians run out of money. Right now, they think they can pay for their rules, and they have done so while amassing more power than before and tossing out the bits of the state constitution they don't like. They really don't care if you live or die other than that it will be bad press for them and potentially negatively impact revenues and campaign contributions. And all of the above is clouded by the fact that this disease is problematic. It's more than likely less dangerous than the flu, but significantly more contagious and that combined with a hospitalization rate high enough that when combined with those other two factors means we are running hospitals in population dense areas at 100% or more capacity. What we are seeing now is that the numbers are rolling in and there is a genuine point to debate. Life saving policy caused economic upheaval. Politicians could mitigate this by running the printing presses. It gets them good publicity and they look likethe domin they did something good. However, you now see that the policy is impacting supply chains. Most importantly food supply chains. Starvation has a lot higher mortality rate than this disease, and starving people like hanging politicians more than voting for them. Right now, staying home seems like a viable option. But you have to imagine the world 3 months... 6 months.. a year from now. Right now in a very real way we are setting up the situation where we have more money than food to buy it with. This leads to inflation of food prices, which we are already seeing. Part of that money chasing food is government bailout. That is going to run out and then you have inflated prices on scarce food with 10-20% unemployment? Right now, we have policy based on the notion that this disease would be worse than it is and that most people who were out of work would go back to working when shelter in place was done. A lot of them won't be. That reality is sinking in and policy is going to have to adjust. Greenday can sniff his own farts and feel smug all he wants. But the reality is you have Trump saying we need to open up or we will have a pandemic and a depression and possibly food riots because this is not a functional model for long term behavior of human society. Then you have.. lets say all the democratic governors in the northeast who say that the orange monster is a tyrant that will kill us all and is advocating an apocalypse. While also planning THE EXACT SAME PROCESS being advocated by Trump. There's only minor differences, and the motivating reasons are exactly the same. But the publicity game is all about people pretending that if it weren't for the other guy, we could have gotten through this without harm. And everyone wants to pretend this shit has something to do with an inherently superior set of ideals. It's not. Dairy farmers are dumping milk because their customer base and volume shifted radically and milk spoils faster than you can shift that process. Once you get past schools and restaurants closing and trying to pretend that one side wouldn't have done that (because both sides did), ideology doesn't come into it. Then look at the yeast situation. Demand shot through the roof. Manufacturing can actually make a shit ton more yeast. But they can't get enough of the right packaging, and without the right packaging the yeast doesn't live long enough to traverse the supply chain. You can pretend the problem is because the packaging comes from India. The real problem is that there is no secondary source of packaging that isn't also affected by the pandemic and has the capacity to meet that demand. Unless you change policy to allow more people to work on that problem, be it here, India, wherever, you won't meet the increased demand. And create scarcity and inflation. It isn't the trump bucks hitting people's bank accounts that is going to cause inflation. That's mostly filling a hole created by lack of employment. The uncontrollable path to inflation is going to be all the imbalances in supply and demand. Where an american was spending say 10% of their income on food, and now will be spending 30% in part due to less income and in part due to competition for scarce supply. And what about all the issues with rent and mortgages. Rent especially. You aint paying, they can't evict you, and you have lots of people being dumped on the street the first day it is legally possible.And they all start competing for what housing will have them. And what happens when you get competition for a scarce resource? And it won't just be shuffling of tenants. A lot of those vacancies won't be back on the market. Definitely not for people who didn't pay then, but a lot will be taken off the market if fiscally viable, go into foreclosure because the economic damage was to significant to the landlord, aren't where the demand is because the main employers in the area didn't survive this economic mess, etc. If something isn't done to mitigate it, which is why despite the theatrics and finger pointing, you have diametrically opposed leaders going through the EXACT SAME PROCESS to figure out when they have to cry uncle and reopen. This is because once Greenday gets done with his fart sniffing, and AVB realizes he's a lot more financially well off than most of the US and thus isn't facing the same problems, that the choice ISN'T how many corpses is it worth to save people from boredom, but how many dead sick people is it worth having to prevent stacking corpses from political unrest, or what the exchange rate is between covid-19 deaths and half the country slowly starving to death. It's going to be a choice between two flavors of shit sandwich. Not do no harm and fuck it all up. And to be fair, there are people here who will be saying we should never have taken measures in the first place and be borderline psychotic about it. They aren't right either as they are pointing at numbers that are the result of HAVING DONE SOMETHING when they say it isn't bad enough to justify this. The thing is the majority of people making those claims are viewed as idiots. There's lots of people pushing the Trump fucked it all up and all democrats are saints narrative being treated as if they are the most reasonable people in the room rather than liars who are also full of shit. This ride aint going to be fun, and neither party has a plan that will skip it. Everyone is trying to figure out how to make it shortest and everyone is working with estimates on how bad each bad thing is with spreads that are vast. It'd be nice if the monkeys would stop flinging poo while doing it, but pretending it isn't what it is on both sides of the aisle is bullshit.

I can't wait to go to this Rally. I'm not happy living my life in a cage. My only child won't visit for fear of killing me or his mother. I'm at my wits' end and if I'm to die over this, then so be it & hurry it the fuck up! But I'm goin' down swingin'! Just need to go on the computer & make my own Press Pass just in case I feel like gettin' thrown-out of the Gov-na's Press Conference

I just heard on Fox Business that the storage rate for oil on tankers at sea has gone up five fold. If anyone needs ammo storage let me know. My rates are considerably cheaper.

OOPPPPPPS. Maybe Corona greatly hyped? https://www.oann.com/coronavirus-outbreak-in-u-s-on-track-to-be-less-severe-than-this-years-seasonal-flu/ Maybe there is a reason hospitals are swamped? A double flu season?

I prefer to just sterilize the doorknob so as to not waste paper

You can buy them off the shelf at a lot of big chain pharmacies now for ~ $25. I got one at CVS a year or so ago and it is pretty accurate.

The good news is that they have gotten very cheap in recent years, falling in price from a few hundred bucks to $30 or so. And by all accounts, most of the cheap ones are pretty accurate.

A young man named Zeke bought a horse from a farmer for $250.The farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next day. The next day, the farmer drove up to Zeke's house and said, ‘Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the horse died.’ Zeke replied, ‘Well, then just give me my money back.’ The farmer said, ‘Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.’ Zeke said, ‘Ok, then, just bring me the dead horse.’ The farmer asked, ‘What ya gonna do with him?” Zeke said, ‘I’m going to raffle him off.’ The farmer said, ‘You can’t raffle off a dead horse!’ Zeke said, ‘Sure I can. Just watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.’ A month later, the farmer met up with Zeke and asked, ‘What happened with that dead horse?’ Zeke said, ‘I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at five dollars apiece and made a profit of $2495.’ The farmer said, ‘Didn’t anyone complain?’ Zeke said, ‘Just the guy who won. So I gave him his five dollars back.’ Zeke grew up and works now for the government.

Trump just bought 75M barrels for the US Strategic reserve

I made a lot of money with that stock years ago, well before they did a reverse split on shares. How do i buy it at -37 dollars? do they pay me to take stock?

So I've been seeing these things on Facebook so I decided to make one. Mine is better :). The ones I see advertised are some various compositions of Brass. Mine is 100% copper. The best anti-microbial metal. I lasered the germ-away. It's a door opener, button pusher. I could put a hole in it for a keychain, but i'll carry it for now. The button part should have bit a bit bigger, but it'll work.

100% NJ Legal.