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It's possible to get a gun almost anywhere in the world. It's very hard in China and N. Korea, ok, but gun ownership is very high in Canada, former Yugoslavia, Uruguay, Russia, Yemen (!), Switzerland, Germany. You can pull strings almost everywhere except the two countries mentioned and get a gun. The world is SWIMMING in guns. The white US population has approximately the same murder rate as northern Europe; even US blacks have LOW rates (though much higher than US whites') compared with Africans in the rest of the world. Yet we have these god-awful incidents. Do we have more crazy people? It's unlikely given we are a melting pot and demographically mirror the rest of the world, more or less, and we are still richer than most countries. What gives? 1. We take more drugs, especially mood altering drugs 2. We have a horrendous, profit-driven medical (and mental health) system whose mission is not to heal but to sell drugs -- doctors are pretty much salesmen for pharma and expensive procedures 3. Our government is out of control and is run by psychopath enforcers owned by mega-corporations Any other ideas?

Negative. Best bang for the buck is the ALG ACT single stage. It’s a tuned and coated mil-spec trigger with a smooth and crisp single stage that you can usually find for about 1/2 the price of the MBT. This. Most people would be better served by spending their $$ on ammo and training. Shoot your carbine until the trigger is the limiting factor to how accurate you can be first. Then buy a new trigger. I didn’t upgrade a trigger until I had been shooting for quite a few years and when I started, I was shooting ~ 6-8k rounds a year in classes and training.

If it’s good enough for uncle sam it’s good enough for you!!! Fuck that noise. Shit triggers are good for learning techniques to deal with shit triggers and that’s about it. With the milspec triggers you can get a nice broken in one that was pretty nice and is a pretty smooth 4.5lb. Or you can get something that feels like it’s made of gravel and is closer to 12. I’ve gone through the litter more than a few times and the odds of getting the good one is basically zero. My experience is you get something about 7-8lbs and fairly rough. Which sucks. So what to get. If you don’t have a big budget or don’t know what you like and want to have something around as you buy and sell the expensive ones until you find just right, there’s the alg coated trigger with the jp springs as mentioned in the thread. It’s basically a worked mil spec trigger without having to pay someone to do the work. This is what I have in my “take a noob to the range” ar. Personally I would not buy the jp trigger. At this point the level of diy to get it set up is just unnecessary with the drop in kits. As on tolerance stacking and the peak performance may not be there with both safety and reliability. And frankly pound for pound of pull, the drop in modules go lower without being as easy to ad. To get the lighter pulls you are dialing out seat engagement. I’ve done a few of them and continue to not like them personally, but more importantly is the effort to set them up and that for the work I’ve gotten ~3.75lb-5lb when set up to pass my standard safety check. I haven’t met their drop in module. If you want good and not a drop in module buy geissele. After a bunch of use my sd3g pulls about 2.25lb. Their two stage isn’t bad either. Zero dicking around with adjustments, and I’ve run them in multiple lowers with very similar results. If you want a 2stage, the hiperfire hipertouch is pretty much the best. You can go really light with really reliable ignition and a positive reset. You can catch some really good sales on these to make them pretty competitive price wise too. If you want single stage, the top of the line elftman trigger is it. Get out your wallet. Pretty much everything they make is made well, but their budget triggers aren’t good relative value to the competition. Then there’s the 1.5 stage/1911 style triggers. They usually have a very short, very light first stage. Then a light second stage. The ar gold trigger was the first of there and is good. I don’t like the very narrow trigger, and it’s a bit floppy feeling from a resting position. But it’s a good trigger and probably one of the better ones for precision shooting imo. Then there’s my personal favorite. Triggertech. Of any ar trigger, this one has the most positive wall of any trigger I’ve ever met. There’s short, very light take up, a positive wall, and a glass rod break. It also has a positive reset. I’ve got the adjustable that goes down to 2.5lb according to the label, but it’s really more like 2.75 in my gun. I love them, and if you are of the light is dangerous crowd, it adjusts up to 5lb. You will not find a nicer feeling 5lb trigger imo. That being said there is now the triggertech Diamond ar trigger. It goes down to 1.5lb, and i don’t think I’ve seen a drop in that will be lower. The timer calvin is also 1.5. That being said i have not met one in person. However I’ve seen a lot of complaints of it being kind of mushy and having a weak reset. If you need the lightest for an ar you want to shoot like a precision bolt gun, the timney Calvin is in theory it. If you have a budget, the cheap rise armament drop in isn’t too bad, and occasionally I’ll see the larue 2 stage is pretty regularly available at $99 and is a solid implementation of an old school national match 2 stage design. We honestly have more really good ar triggers than we had options for stripped lowers when i started building ars in 2001. The choice for decent drop ins is just insane now.

When he gets back from his vacation home in Italy, I'm sure he'll pile onto the stupid.

Well, they are making a bid deal over how easy it was for him to buy the rifle online. One media site showed that it only took 5 clicks on the Daniels Defense website to order the same rifle. But they pretty much gloss over the fact that the online order only results in the rifle being sent to the FFL who is going to run the NICS check and do the transfer paperwork.

Welcome to the amended definition of "ghost gun"

they don't now, so no......

I posted on this elsewhere, but here is the detail. And specifically on the microstamping. It's not mandatory yet. Microstamping Legislation S.4116-A/A.7926-A requires the Division of Criminal Justice Services to certify or decline to certify that microstamping-enabled pistols are technologically viable and if certified as viable, to establish programs and processes for the implementation of such technology; and establishes the crime of the unlawful sale of a non-microstamping-enabled firearm. Governor Hochul Signs Landmark Legislative Package to Strengthen Gun Laws and Protect New Yorkers | Governor Kathy Hochul (ny.gov)

And I'd like to know how they're going to link micro stamped brass to the person who pulled the trigger. Or will they just put the gun in jail?

I suggested the La Rue MBT2 trigger because Its affordable and a well liked trigger. I run RRA 3.5# varmint triggers and a 4.5# NM in my 7.62x39 ar , its just what my preference is.

Or someone else's...

What happens when criminals start picking up their brass.

I did some force-on-force training as a role player for a NJ town PD. One exercise was 2 officers start facing each other. Each has a sims gun with an empty mag and an empty chamber in their holster. On the signal it is a race to see who can draw, press the trigger on target and get click-no-bang, do tap-rack drill at which point the slide will lock back due to the empty mag, execute a reload and put a shot on their opponent. The lead instructor wouldn't let me play against any of the officers there except my friend that invited me to act as role player - it wouldn't be fair, he said.

You really think cops will have to follow the same rules as us little people?

There can be no challenges to SCOTUS rulings. What will instead occur is NJ and NY will institute clearly unconstitutional (and anti-ruling) training or financial requirements, which will have to be litigated, which will take time...unless the ruling somehow warns states not to f**k around. If anyone who knows the application process decides to start that thread, please notify us here.

Why can't this get leaked like the other stuff?

Most of us don't get to shoot enough to find out how much the trigger pull weight on their AR matters. Using the Mantis Blackbeard on my AR - holy cow my trigger finger gets tired after pulling that trigger a few hundred times with the standard mil-spec trigger. I originally thought the mil-spec trigger was fine but now I do wanna get better triggers for all of my ARs that have mil-spec's.

Oh for sure I'm seeing the usual social media spam move to "ban semi-automatic rifles!"

Definitely agree on the ALG-ACT! I replaced all my mil-spec triggers with them. Smooth as silk!

of late, i've also read 2 articles, and heard one video where they are going back to the wording of the 2nd. in the video, they're trying to say that till heller, the 2nd didn't mean a right for the individual. they're gonna play that game again.

I'm not a Commando, special operator, SEAL, or any of that. I've been in the position of, "Here's this M16. Go into battle with this". I survived. If you're talking about gun games pursue whatever your conscience and wallet can survive. Slightly OT but I have a Taurus 669, 4", 357 I bought in 1988. The trigger is not a S&W but I have no reservations about using it in a fight. SGT York didn't select his trigger for his rifle. Audie Murphy didn't tune his M1 carbine or M2 50 caliber. Too many get wrapped up in what can be considered software. The hardware is between your ears.

My "precision" AR has a JP trigger. But WTF do I know. I've only been shooting ARs for over 50 years.

Agreed. Throw some JP Enhanced reliability springs on it too and it's even nicer. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1003366096

If you spent enough time and effort you can adapt to any trigger

I just shoot more accurate with a two stage. I just sold off my single stage triggers, they were 3 gun triggers. Between the first and the second stage there is a wall, you pull through the first stage and you reach like a mini speed bump.( the wall) At the wall you will get the same trigger pull every time, some explain the brake as a glass rod snappish or a candy cane you also have the option just pulling through the trigger jmho opinion

Found this a little humorous, was doing the online NJ hunters ed course and saw that the black pick up used in some of the videos had Ontario plates.

Anything will do to cover the end of the barrel. absolute misses effective comp is the sjc titan. my personal favorite is the venom defense viper. If you catch a sale it can be as cheap as $12.95. It’s reasonably effective, not super loud, looks pretty nice, and important for nj, you can still reach the crown to clean it. Anything with a high pressure chamber will build up deposits, and at least in one instance for me started negatively affecting accuracy.

You just missed a nice trigger @silverado427 had for sale.

He put them on a credit card, and you are cheap. That’s pretty much the explanation for that bit.

It’s called Twitter.

Won't stop anything.

New Jersey will not be upstaged. Counting the minutes before Phil Dunston Murphy grabs the limelight.

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I have to admit, Biden did make good on a big campaign promise. He vowed to unite America, and he's done it. Everybody is disgusted with him. America has not been as united since 9/11.

The fact that NJ won't have to change the wording in the statute is moot, and probably the NJ anti-gun crowd are happy about it. The NJ Superior Court in each county is who issues permits. They will slow walk cases and still not issue permits. I foresee yet another law suit.

Biscuits are a religion down there. Man, I forgot about that place. Don’t miss it.

an Exxon station in Hamilton (near Trenton) was 5.29 for cash/regular and 5.39 for CC yesterday...

$4.76 a gal @ Costco $4.99 @ Wawa. Today.

Listen to the radio this morning.... the narrative is changing..... they are moving from the words 'assault weapons'...to 'semi automatic weapons', and just 'semi automatic rifles'.. Goal posts are moving......