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Two days isn't a lot of time. But he SHOULD have returned a text. But then texts are easy to forget about. Especially if getting A LOT of them from different people. But stuff does happen. He could have health issue and be in hospital? Have you tried calling his business number or land line to get a hold of someone else to inquire? If he runs a pawn shop there are probably other employees I would assume. I would give it through the weekend. Leave a courteous voice-mail on cell saying you are just touching base and wondering when you can expect shipping confirmation. If no answer try land line at place of business.. If no reply or update by Monday call and leave VM calmly stating you are canceling the order. Hopefully you paid via credit card or some form of payment you can cancel. Then notify the proper authorities and out him here and anywhere else. Unfortunately scammers are EVERYWHERE these days. And anything can be faked. Fake websites that look legit, fake DL, fake FFL paperwork etc. Hopefully he's just bad at getting back to people and really busy. I've heard crazier stories. Keep us updated and hopefully it all works out.

The Book Report Students at a local school were assigned to read two books, 'Titanic' & 'My Life' by Bill Clinton. One student turned in the following book report, with the proposition that they were nearly identical stories! His cool professor gave him an A+ for this report. Titanic: cost - $29.99 Clinton: cost - $29.99 Titanic: Over 3 hours to read Clinton: Over 3 hours to read Titanic: The story of Jack and Rose, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe. Clinton: The story of Bill and Monica, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe. Titanic: Jack is a starving artist. Clinton: Bill is a bullshit artist. Titanic: In one scene, Jack enjoys a good cigar. Clinton: Ditto for Bill. Titanic: During the ordeal, Rose's dress gets ruined. Clinton: Ditto for Monica. Titanic: Jack teaches Rose to spit. Clinton: Let's not go there. Titanic: Rose gets to keep her jewelry Clinton: Monica is forced to return her gifts. Titanic: Rose remembers Jack for the rest of her life. Clinton: Clinton remembers Monica for the rest of his life. Titanic: Rose goes down on a vessel full of seamen. Clinton: Monica...ooh, let's not go there, either. Titanic: Jack surrenders to an icy death. Clinton: Bill goes home to Hilary - basically the same thing.

That weasel Grewal tried to get the case moved to NJ and got hammered. Great news. Fifth Circuit Clamps Down on NJ District Court in 2nd Amendment Case U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)-– The saga continues in defense of the First and Second Amendments in federal courts. On April 1, 2022, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a split decision in a three-judge panel, reversed the District Court’s decision to transfer the case to New Jersey. In a court opinion, this was a vigorous slap down against judicial bias and activism. Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) sued the State Department for violating their First and Second Amendment rights to publish computer files on the Internet. They reached a settlement. Various Attorney Generals filed unprecedented actions to prevent the settlement from being implemented. One of the most egregious was the New Jersey Attorney General (NJAG) Gurbir Grewal, who filed injunctions against Defense Distributed for their publishing efforts in Texas. Defense Distributed filed suit against the NJAG. The District Court in Texas ruled against them. They appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Defense Distributed and SAF won. The State Department joined Defense Distributed in a lawsuit against the NJAG for interference. Grewal moved to have the case dismissed, and failing that, have the case against him severed from the more general case, and moved to New Jersey, where, he would have more influence, power, and likely, a more sympathetic judge. In the opinion issued on April 1, 2022, the Fifth Circuit slaps down both the New Jersey District Court and the Texas District court who agreed to severe Grewal’s case and move it to New Jersey. From the opinion pages 5-6: The Fifth Circuit states, on page 12: On page 22: On page 30, the last page of the majority opinion: The dissent, unexpectedly, disagrees, claiming the transfer of the case to a New Jersey Court, where the New Jersey AG is the defendant, is not unusual enough to warrant the extraordinary remedy of mandamus. Author’s Opinion: The appearance of corruption in transferring the case to New Jersey, when the appellate court had already ruled against the NJAG’s claim the case should be tried in New Jersey instead of Texas, is unmistakable. The District Courts’ actions are indeed unusual and egregious. They call out for correction. The Fifth Circuit majority opinion is correct and much needed. https://www.ammoland.com/2022/04/fifth-circuit-clamps-down-on-nj-district-court-in-2nd-amendment-case

Flash hiders are only illegal on semi-auto rifles that also have 2 other banned features. You can have a flash hider on an M1 Garland or a Mini-14, for example. On a handgun, it must have 2 other banned features and be threaded such that it could accept a flash hider. The flash hider itself is not a banned feature for a handgun, therefore if it was an integral part of the barrel, or attached other than with threads, it is legal.

Absolutely jersey-legal as-is. Go for it!

The brazenness of this guy is astounding. He appears to have absolutely no expectation of being held accountable for any of this.

Yup made police report and made sure ffl was contacted as well as thevwoman whos paypal acct was hacked Yes this one hurt alot. Mf actually called me asking why I contacted PayPal to make a report he wasn't done yet screwing with the woman's acct. Intold him i would call him back he said ok. Omfg

Garden State 2A Grassroots Organization leading charge in NJ on sanctuary movement By John Petrolino | Apr 07, 2022 1:40 PM ET Members of GS2AGO Gloucester County Resolution Signing April 6, 2022 (eft to right): Mark Cheeseman, Jennifer Moore, Rick Chow, Michelle Beartie-Kacy, Commissioner Nick DeSilvio, Joseph Pistilli, Sandy Hickerson, & Dave Pedella If we dig deep in our memory banks to a time prior to the virus which shall not be named, we’ll recall a movement that was sweeping many counties and towns, in many states across the country. Conceivably started in Virginia in response to extreme hostility towards the Second Amendment, the 2A sanctuary movement got momentum. The topic of so-called Second Amendment sanctuaries has been picked apart time and time again. With some “sanctuaries” being symbolic in nature, and others actually carrying the weight of the law. New Jersey, believe it or not, has a solid number of jurisdictions that have committed themselves as sanctuaries. In the winter of 2018 a group was born, the Garden State 2A Grassroots Organization (GS2AGO), and they’ve been carrying the banner on this movement all up and down the Parkway. From the GS2AGO webpage: Garden State 2A Grassroots Organization (GS2AGO) is a non-profit, non-partisan, NJ-based advocacy group that helps NJ residents defend our Second Amendment rights in the state. Our objective is to turn each county into a grassroots hub to defend our right to keep and bear arms. We provide resolution kits, education, advocacy and information about NJ firearms laws. The resolution is based on case law, and fosters awareness and support for the 2nd Amendment community in NJ. By working with our local governments to adopt the resolutions, We The People send a clear message to our state government that we will defend our rights. By defending the right to keep and bear arms, we advocate for the most fundamental rights of all people for self-defense and freedom. Firearms rights are equal rights. Firearms rights are civil rights. The Second Defends The Rest. Truth be told, I’ve been quietly following the GS2AGO since they got on the map towards the end of 2018, and have reported different times about their happenings. The “pandemic” came and it seemed like all activity halted. In reality, it kind of did. With a new spring of life, and this generation’s roaring 20’s starting to commence, GS2AGO has been at it again. In March, I reported on one of the resolutions they supported. I found it difficult to keep up with where they were going to be next or what was actually happening. It was time for me to get their president on the phone. Rick Chow Sr. is a Jersey guy through and through. He and I chatted for over an hour, and it was nice to get to know a fellow Garden State patriot. Chow indicated to me that the inception of GS2AGO came about when one town council randomly introduced a resolution on the Second Amendment on their own. He wondered if there would be more towns in the pork roll paradise to do the same. After getting active, here we are, a few years later, with about 1/3rd (or more) of the state having a Second Amendment resolution on their books. Chow talked about stumbling on the social media post that ignited this movement: West Milford passes this resolution, so I got the idea; “Hey, let’s get together and see if we can do that elsewhere in the state.” So initially, it was myself and Mark [Cheeseman], and then Nick Magner got aboard…within a couple days, a week’s time we added Sandy [Hickerson]. We added Josh…We were working over Christmas holiday, over through New Year’s holiday, and helping people get pages set up. That’s how all this got started. I asked Chow about where the organization is now and what their challenges are. You know, we’re volunteers ourselves. Nobody within the organization is paid. So we had representatives all over the state that were helping me. They were helping out with county pages and getting events set up and going into town meetings, and now we’re down to six people. And it’s horrible, because we can’t be in every place all the time. You know…The other biggest hurdle, obviously, is always donations. We have applied for 501 C three. And we’re waiting on paperwork back from the Federal Government. That’s holding us up on that. They have accepted the application, but we haven’t gotten a “yea” or “nay” yet on that. But those are the two biggest things right now holding us back to do what we need… To date, Chow notes that just under half of all the counties in New Jersey has some sort of a resolution in support of the Second Amendment, and many towns as well. My count is there’s over 60 different jurisdictions in the state that have put out their public support for this civil right through the local legislative process. The work that Chow and his team at GS2AGO does has value. Seemingly symbolic in nature, these resolutions in support of the Second Amendment do have meaning. In states like New Jersey where many of the legislators are controlled by partisan politics, and progressive ones at that, more often than not, they don’t listen to the masses. The Garden State has had lawmakers brag about getting hundreds, if not thousands of messages in opposition of a bill that they vote for regardless, while only receiving a few in support of the measure. Hubris and elitism rules in progressive states like Jersey. These resolutions do send another message to the lawmakers that’s hard to ignore. They can shred letters, ignore emails, and be dismissive towards phone calls. But when there are resolutions being voted on, they can’t exactly hide from those. It’s all on the record and they’re going to be hard pressed to be able to say “I did not know.” If you’d like to learn more about the Garden State 2A Grassroots Organization (GS2AGO), you can check them out HERE: https://www.gs2ago.com/ 3 years ago I got our Mayor to make the proclamation.

Pretty much every thread I've posted on this site about wanting or looking for a particular weapon etc I have received those same PMs. This is why I've never done any online deals. I don't trust anyone. Sorry to read about your experience. Damn that sucks.

That was the red flag that got ignored. Here's an example of a common and frequent scam right here on njgf, just one example of many I've rec'd in PM over the years. I put asterisks in pace of the email address. The forum admins/mods should be able to track the scammers IP address to a general location. If the IP of the place you sent money is in Florida or Pakistan, you definitely have a problem. Never EVER send money to anyone that does not have at least ten meaningful posts.

You took what I wrote entirely too seriously.

One of the things I miss; having retired and moved from South Jersey, is shooting trap and 5-stand at Telco. Its a great bunch of folks, and a lot of fun. Just about any good hunting shotgun that fits you will work; pump, semi, o/u or sxs.

Worth a read if you like old cars... https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/

^^^ this ^^^ For starting out in trap and sporting clays, an O/U or a semi auto is the ticket. I do not recommend a pump action, simply because there is an additional movement that requires training and concentration to stay on target. It will detract from your game. Though, if all one has is a pump, it will still get the job done, it's just a bit more tedious when shooting at multiple targets or for any length of time. Generally speaking, pumps are hunting guns first, meant to take a handful of "targets" a day. The main benefit to an O/U is two chokes, reliability also rates high. It won't make much difference in the beginning, but as you get better, you will be able to take advantage of having that flexibility of two chokes. It's handy when there's varying distance to target such as you may find in sporting clays. On better trap/skeet guns, the barrel is weighted forward for good balance and a smooth follow through. Semi autos are very popular because of the perception of softer recoil, but be aware that some fiddling may be necessary to get them to cycle with target loads. Not all, just some. A few autos can be tweaked with an adjustable gas port, others require springs replaced or some other tinkering. If you decide to go with a semi, just make sure it can cycle lighter target loads or be adjusted in some way or another. A 28" bbl is good for trap and great for sporting clays and skeet. A 30 or 32 inch barrel is ideally what you'd want for a dedicated trap gun, but would be awkward for sporting clays. If you really get bit by regulation trap, you may find yourself shopping for a single barrel trap gun (Browning BT-99 for example). That's a ways off though. You need to find out if you like the sport before plunking down $1800+ for a single purpose shotgun. Oh yeah, and reloading One does not need an expensive shotgun to enjoy clay shooting, at least not in the beginning. If you are busting clays just for fun, there is no practical difference between a $400 shotty and a $2,000 masterpiece. Start with the best in a reasonable price range, then when you hit a performance wall, that's the time to start looking for something more purpose built. If your score doesn't improve, give up trap, you suck at it.

No worries, I didn't take it that way. Mine has about 500 rounds through it and I've never had a problem. I've heard their Cobra series has problems but the Vipers get good reviews on YouTube. I'm happy with mine and that's all that matters to me.

They put those biscuits in the stock to repair crack. Edit: It is similar to repairing crack in engine block (stitching).

Good luck with sale. I'm a righty. I already have one in 7mm-08. Awesome gun. Probably one of the best value/shooters you will find under $500.

Oh, if only this was a righty I'd take it in a heartbeat. I had a Ruger original recipe RAR in 243 and it was a tack driver, right up to when the barrel heated up. The predator line fixed all that with a heavier barrel more suitable for a shooting bench or varmint hunt where there won't be a lot of walking around. The price to accuracy ratio is insane, you'd be hard pressed to find a better rifle for the money.

Found thanks . this is all for 3 gun. glock 34---- check benelli m2---- check AR to be found still Lots of practice ----in the process.

TLDR advice to Golf Battery. Realistically, just video yourself loading some rounds on the Hornady and time your bursts of smooth reloading to get your seconds per round. Get an average, and do the math. Short of automating a 1050, you probably won't go faster than that on any press, and most of these overblown claims are not what people are actually doing in an hour, but their max cyclic rate extrapolated. Realistically, the question is what is needing TLC on the hornady, and with team blue would you be doing 500 rph without any drama? I have a couple of LNL-AP presses and friends with SDBs, 500s, and 650s. So first, I have to say that I generally agree that the LNL takes more TLC to keep running based on anecdotal evidence. But from my experience, the indexing isn't the part that needs much TLC. One of my presses has about 125k rounds on it, and I have had to adjust indexing on it all of three times. Once was preemptory after tearing my setup down and packing it for moving and not even based on actual bad behavior. There's probably something you can do about that. Second, which dillon do you have? Because the only thing I hear people bitch about regularly is the primer system on the 650. That is one of the big changes to the 750. It moves to a more LNL like sled setup, but with the dillon adjustable primer seating stem/ram. (their approach to the seating stem is a win, the 650s primer merry-go-round is not, I don't know anyone who has a 750, but it looks like it should be a nice priming system). The Dillon case feeder hopper is definitely better than the Hornady. The dillon's clear plastic faceplate that catches the falling shell is a better, less cheap design. That and the fact that you can adjust the speed makes it suck much less. It can still have a case hang up like the LNL, but not nearly as often. if you don't make modifications to the hornady setup, you also get pieces of brass occasionally raining on your head, which I don't recall being an issue for dillon. It's easily stopped with non permanent mods, but there's not really a fix for the collator binding on a case (this is what variable speed would help with), or cases binding in the faceplate/funnel thing in a way that doesn't trip the switch (this is what a better designed faceplate helps with). I've generally got mine beaten into submission and just have to reach up and free the occasional binding case in the collator and have to adjust the tension on the pivot screw for the case dropping bit. As far as I am concerned, their instructions are questionable and their suggestions about which pieces to combine for a given caliber are very wrong. The main thing that was super, super screwed up is how the pivoting case drop is mounted to the arm that holds the case feeder. If you have an old one it is just sort of wedged on a nut. I fixed mine wit a piece of angle iron and a bit of shimming. Hornady now has changed things up to have a bracket to hold it in place. It's a stupid design. Dillon owners don't have to do this shit. Stupid original design is on top, my fix is in the middle, Hornady's is on the bottom. Take the rate's quoted by people on the internet with a grain of salt the size of Montana. Lots of schmucks saying stuff to look impressive and are outright lying or have a bunch of caveats they aren't adding to their explanation. Even with the bragging and the OCD people with a system, and the people with zero quality control, you see a lot of people in the 400-500 range for the 550, and 400-600 range for the 657/750. The dude telling me he loads 1200rph on a SDB but then says they don't load more than 200 rounds at a time is not a useful data point. For dillon gear, the name is dillon's take on hourly throughput with a case feeder, and the reality is that most people don't get to that, especially if your metric is "I want to go make 500 rounds right now, how many minutes until I have 500 rounds boxed up". On the LNL-AP I can do just about 3 seconds a round with .40 or .45... right up until I have to grab another handful of bullets, and my QC is minimal. In my world, me claiming I can do 1200 rounds per hour because of that is total bullshit, for others it isn't cause math or something. People I know well and deal with in real life have rates around 400 rph with the 550, 600 rph with the 650, and 700 and change with the 1050. For straight walled pistol using a case feeder on the 650 and 1050. For me I can do about a round every 5 seconds with visual inspection. That'd be a cyclic rate of 750 per hour, but reality is I seldom load more than 300 at a go. My SOP when doing that is to tighten the pivot bolt on my case feeder, check the bolt on the shell plate isn't loosening, load up the primer tubes using my vibra prime, load 100, gauge them all with my armanov 100 round gauge, mark them and box them, then repeat that for the next 200 and go do something else. This takes about 35 minutes and the only work not included in that is cleaning the brass. So my fairly objective (IMO) take on red vs blue here. -blue wins on QC. IMO hornady's biggest problem is that if they get a bum part, they will ship that bum part until it is gone. Dillon fixes something so it is fixed the first time. Dillon also has less bum parts creep into the pipeline. -blue wins on CS. Hornady's CS isn't bad, but Hornady is a bigger company doing more things, and you will occasionally wind up arguing about warranty with someone who needs more training or something. -blue wins the locator pins vs the hornady spring retainer. The pins are a better design and is smoother. The spring can be made much, much more reliable. I've tried to explain how, but it really needs a video. If your spring comes undone and would like me to make a video on how to make it never do that, let me know. I've got 10 years of use on my current spring. -blue wins with 6 positions vs 5. This matters a lot more of you want a bullet feeder. This can matter a lot to top speed. - red wins the powder drop. It's always been a better poder drop in general, but for a time dillon was cheaper to get extras. Now a spare powder measure for team blue is $120, and you can catch a sale for the hornady for ~$65-70 and can get one for $95 without any work. This gets an asterisk because the dillon powder through expanders are 100%. The hornady one in .40 had issues. In theory they redesigned it, but I haven't met that one and can't vouch for it. -red wins price generally. Right now kind of sucks and it looks like about a $100 difference. This happens regularly, and at those times I'd do team blue. -blue still wins in aftermarket support, but the gap has narrowed a lot in the last 10 years. -cleanliness is a draw. The new primer system on the 750 may move this to a blue win, but with the hornady, out of the box, you can wind up slinging a wee bit of powder sometimes. With the 650, you have to clean the primer merry go round regularly. -both need roller handles added to the initial purchase price if you are going to do any kind of volume in a sitting.

he'll still try that shit everywhere else, regardless. it's not his money.

Defense Distributed sued Grewal in TX. TX court ruled no jurisdiction over NJ AG. Defense Distributed appealed to 5th Circuit. 5th Circuit disagreed with lower court, said yes, Grewal can be sued in TX, remanded to lower court for trial. Grewal appealed 5th circuit decision to SCOTUS. SCOTUS denied cert. 5th circuit decision stands. Trial will proceed in TX, where I'm sure Grewal's attorneys will be warmly received for putting the screws to a Texas company. Somehow I don't think we'll be getting a tweet about this on the official NJ OAG twitter account.

No fear at all, called me to chastise me for reporting this then told me to go and request money back from the womans paypal acct, and that he would hack back into her acct and give me 200 back. I said no or else he will steal more from this woman. This makes my head hurt. Fact is there should be a more secure way for an ffl to ffl info transfer. He had the ffl licence, his DL, passport card and carry permit photos front and back. presented to me. The paypal account was real (hacked some womans acct) and even provided an invoice when asked to do so, matching FFL info. I got jacked the scam was good, I just will start saving again, expensive lesson learned. I learned this is common on arms list etc, so obviously be careful.

Sorry, but I am anti-squirrel. https://youtube.com/shorts/0S47QuWi8c8?feature=share