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I saw a box of 50 rounds of .380 ball....380 ball....delivered to my.local ffl for .... 101.38 People asked me once...Nick...why do you keep buying all these reloading components and gear....they used to laugh. 9mm, 38 45...pick your flavor...is so cheap..ha !..waste of time to even think of reloading it... How many buckets of lead do you have? Molds? This guys nuts.... Yeah, whose laughing now. *learn* and let this be a lesson....

Agree. I buy powder, primers, and bullets even when factory ammo is cheap/available. My daughter and I shot a Steel Challenge match in February right before everything closed down due to COVID, and some of the young guys were teasing me because I was picking up brass. They said "9mm is so cheap now you're only saving 3 cents per round. It's not worth the time to reload". Guarantee that they're not laughing right now.

The owner at my local gun shop told me that 380 is by far the hardest common use ammo to find in the US. I don't shoot 380 much but am glad I have a set of dies, pile of brass, and 500 bullets. Never reloaded 380 in my life but I am glad I have this stuff just in case.

Some dealers won't ship to NJ no matter where you get it. If your ffl is not interested in assisting you in your search and or via gunbroker...find another. YOU, can buy on gunbroker yourself.... what gun?

For those, you might want to consider concealment furniture, to hide them, sort of "hiding in plain sight". Specially if they're for home defense.

Hello All..... Want to take this time to say Hi and hope everyone is doing well in this crazy year..... At this time, please read the forum rules and refresh yourself with them. Please know...... The Main forum is strictly for Firearm Related talk...... except the General Discussion area which you are free to discuss 100% family friendly subjects If you are starting a thread - please try and place it in the proper section Anything remotely controversial or political will get moved to the 1A Lounge The 1A Lounge will be moderated at this point..... try and behave at least human in there. I will give a long leash..... but make no mistake, when a Mod or I feel a line is crossed, it will be dealt with.

I get that, but if you click the link from where I purchased it, they say it's police trade in. Not military. Either way it's good to know that the locking block can fail on these.

found some heads online for those that are looking. never used them so i can't comment on quality or service. good luck. https://americanreloading.com/en/391-9mm-380-auto-355-356 https://americanreloading.com/en/394-45-cal-451-454

The best way to deal with a squirrel problem is a .22. Then eat them. Fry then just like you would chicken. Good eats. No engineering solution required. #ZLM

For what I do day to day now I not only feel comfortable carrying not only a 380 but also a 32 ACP or 32 S&W Long. All give "adequate" penetration. If I'm going into a "more interesting" area I'll carry a 38 special or 9 mm. This is got nothing to do with concealability. Concealing a full size service pistol is really not much harder than concealing a smaller gun. It got to do convenience.

looking to buy one live in nj they are hard to get

Firstly, I found the US Carburetor website confusing but from what I could discern, the USG kit involves removing and modifying the gen's carburetor. In contrast the Hutch kit seems to be a much cleaner install that requires very minimal changes to the genny. If you watch their video I linked above, you will see that it is very easy to switch back and forth between propane and gasoline. Lastly, and a big consideration for me, is that on the gen itself, the Hutch kit provides a quick disconnect port and the propane regulator attaches to the propane tank. I.e. I don't have to mount the propane regulator to the outside housing of my genny. It would get knocked into all the time in my garage (likely by my knees, lol). My understanding (if correct) is that the USG kit would require the regulator assembly to be mounted to the generator housing. So overall struct me as a much cleaner design that would also enable me to switch seemlessly between propane and gasoline as the situation might call for.

Same here, one one you have is better than the one you want if you don't have it. I carry LCP when the situation makes it hard to carry anything else, which is rare. There are many times I will have the LCP in my pocket when carry a larger gun. I really don't like 380 at all but it is better than nothing.

They have a bunch of 1911 sight installation options here: https://cylinder-slide.com/Category/1911PARAORD7 They are a friendly bunch - give them a call to discuss what you need. I just wanted them to do the cuts on my BHP because the standard dovetails were different from any current gun and there were no after market sights available. I talked to them and sent a set of Dawson sights with just the slide - I didn't want deal with the hassle of shipping the whole gun. They made the cuts and cleaned up a ding that another gunsmith had put in the slide, bead blasted the top to take off any glare and blued the whole thing. As they didn't have the whole gun and I was installing non-standard sights I sent a plain front sight for them to install. When I got it back I checked where it was shooting and then calculated the correct height front sight with a fiber insert and installed that myself. I was perfectly happy with the standard of work and the time they took. They were able to fit such a simple job in between bigger projects.

The solution is mag blockers for existing mags, instead of buying new 5 rounders. Many people did that with the 15 to 10 round change. That will be Murphy's "hold my beer" moment.

I would use pretty much any caliber I could lay my hands on. Firearms are ranged weapons and anything that dissuades the bad guy from getting close is better than going hands on. Are some more effective than others? Sure. There are very few that are less useful than nothing at all.

And not one magazine was turned in...

OH how we forget. Last big run on 9mm during a panic we hit $70 a box for.380 despite overall prices not getting nearly this bad. The machines making.380 can make 9 with very little down time, so it's the first one to go out of production completely. It'll be the last to come back of it goes like last time.

Try a new recoil spring?

Thanks. Shingle is actually hung. Just waiting on the wallpaper, as it were.

Nope I don't have account, it'll just have a header saying what I explained above. But yes, if they don't have the gun in hand they can't submit NICS cause they need to verify the serial number, make, model. You're looking at early next week. They have to check the gun into their books before they can transfer it to you.

During time NICS are open this site will tell you how many in queue and what day they're working on. https://www.njportal.com/NJSP/NicsVerification I checked about an hour ago and it was 1083 in queue and working on Saturday as of 8:04am or something.

Am I reading this correctly that people are waiting days for a NICS check? That is criminal. Mine took 5 minutes yesterday and the same two weeks before. What is the hell could take so long? Is the NJSP using teletype or telegraph? Maybe carrier pigeon? That is ridiculous.

From Classic Arms Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The Beretta M1951 is a 9x19mm ( 9 mm Parabellum / Luger ) semi-automatic pistol, developed during the late 1940s and early 1950s by Pietro Beretta S.p.A. of Italy. The pistol was produced strictly for military use and was introduced into service with the Italian Armed Forces and security forces as the Modello 1951 (M1951), replacing the Modello 1934 pistol. All come complete with a 1-8 round magazine. May not come with original Beretta OEM Mag but each will have a magazine and the vast majority will be OEM. https://www.handgunforum.net/xf/threads/beretta-1951-locking-lug-broke-agian-after-23-rounds.163697/

There's 2 on Ebay for $67, I'll look at it when I take it apart once I take it home next week. Thank you for the suggestion, I 100% appreciate it. Like I said I've never purchased a surplus firearm before so any info is extremely helpful.

My dad always used to say, “Boy, getting old ain’t for sissies”. He wasn’t wrong.

It is great not dealing with permits.

I will tell you this right now - BUY NEW LOCKING BLOCK - do not shoot the gun until such time as you source a new one and install it. If the locking block is stressed after many thousands of rounds and is not changed, when an ear of it breaks off - it will lock that gun like a drum. Change it while you can.

Good luck. Share some pictures when you finally have the pistol in hand!

NJSP emailed me yesterday letting me know that my NJ Retail License has come back (again) from NJ Superior Court and it will be mailed out today. So, I should have it by end of next week. ATF received my paperwork on Saturday. We are officially cooking with gas!!!

You need to get some chicken thighs, coat them with Old Bay and grill them. Steam your corn, coat with butter and slap on the Old Bay. Someone told me you can use it on shrimp too, but I'm not buying that one. (I'm a fat kid at heart and my belly)

So... Checked the glow at 1am....3am.... 5am. Its there, but it cannot be stated that it is enough to use for low light work. Granted they did not get a charge that was longer than a few minutes at 830pm via flashlight or ambient light I would not hesitate to do this on a gun that would have been in daylight then be used around dusk..such as a hunting gun....i would not rely on this for a self defense pistol. However, if, as you should, keep a flashlight by your night stand, and if you can hit the sight real quick while maintaining your night vision...could be useable. Otherwise not so much.....imo

Or gets exponentially worse.

Stay out of Bayonne! @Ray Ray told.... all of us

Booking primers is not all automated machines. Feeding the machines is not all automated machines. Shipping of all this stuff is also not just automated machines. China's delivery of copper ribbon and lead wire HAS had an impact. Manufacturers have said as much and have had idled machines waiting on one or the other. On top of that the machines don't just have a knob that can turn capacity up to infinity. They have service intervals, maintenance, and only so many hours in a day even when running full out. Also, don't confuse spot market price on base metals with supply of bulk semi finished goods. We are also going to get a nice kick in the pants on shipping as covid has had container shop crews trapped for months. So we are either going to get a strike or them actually getting the leave they have coming in one big chunk. Most manufacturers are supplying ongoing output. It is not steady and it is no where near demand even if they are managing something close to a regular schedule. We have seen it creep from daily shipments to weekly, to multiple weeks.

I don't think so. Plus then I'd have to go to Bayonne... lol

No it is a supply and demand thing. Due to covid, things are moving in fits and starts. Copper and lead are sourced from China. Lots of powder comes from Australia. Primers come from the US and Europe and require lots of manual labor compared to other components. On top of that the ammunition market in the US is typically about 11 billion rounds a year and rim fire is between 20-30% of that. A big order for the military is 2 billion rounds If our 5 million new owners just want to buy 200 rounds that's a billion right there. If every gun owner decides they need a case now, that's a demand of 105 billion rounds. The whole planet can't produce that in short order. Or not on short order. Even at full capacity. There's nothing artificial about this, and it is demand well above the small arms ammunition demand of fighting a couple of wars.

I have been here for 60 years. I am starting to look at this state like the plague. I'm packin it up and moving to Florida. I will NOT vote for ANY democrat in my lifetime. I actually am starting to hate them all.

The emigration of older NJ residents and the immigration of new residents from across the Hudson have taken its toll on Jersey politics and this once red state is now a sick blue. the right to CCW and defend is but one of many issues chipping away at our Constitution as state after state gives way under the heat of the progressive left wing socialist media, educators, politicians, and stupid Americans who'd sell their souls for free bread and circuses. There is a lot afoot here in the USA, and all of it is stoking the fire under the pot of Patriots.

... and therein lies the problem that the apathetic American doesn't understand, hasn't been taught, could care less about, and why our country has, over the last three decades, gone progressive left wing socialist. the patriot pot is slowly but surely heating up.

The vast majority of Americans have lost, or better yet have not been taught how this nation came to be and why, and the reason that our American constitution emphasizes the right to bear arms. It is our birthright. It is how we came to be. It took firearms, bloodshed, tremendous suffering, untold hardship and massive death to form America. It was a rebellion against a tyrannical government. Be prepared, patriot brothers.

Easy question to answer. Because the residents bend over and allow it to happen. Period.

THAT is the travesty of America - TWO sets of laws and rules, where states can override the American Constitution. It should be the other way around - states need to ENFORCE the American Constitution, not violate it. Our nation is deep into an ideological civil war that's slowly heating up. Patriots, be prepared for what's coming.