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The first time? Pointed it out to the poll workers and asked them if they were actually going to let her vote. The answer was yes. There's not much else to be done. Cops won't do anything about it, and not having identifying info means nobody will take it seriously if you complain about it. To make it more fun, they were not, in fact going to let me vote. Despite having been registered to vote since high school, and voting in every election since, I had been removed from the roles and was not in the book. So they forced me to cast a provisional ballot, which is seldom if ever counted. Except when I went to the county clerk's office to sort it out they were of the opinion I was actually registered and on the roles. Thus began a three year saga of getting my voting rights back. This was in Middlesex county by the way, and occurred in the first election after they went to bar codes. I'm beyond not shocked their FOIA/OPRA request came up with lots of fucky goings on there. During that time I hassled a lot of people and did a lot of digging on how things work. The upshot of it is that the state isn't interested in fixing the problem, even if you approach things as a systemic process issue rather than corruption. And a chunk of this stuff IS first and foremost a process issue, although they very much will try to keep the process a secret. At the most basic level, if you have been registered to vote, and have moved, you can likely just go to your old polling place and vote again. If you changed counties when you moved, the odds of that goes up. The roles simply aren't maintained well, if at all, and they certainly aren't justified across the state as they should be. Is this a conspiracy? Probably not. However, it is exploitable, and those who are likely to want to exploit it are in a position to influence if anyone ever actually makes the effort to clean up the roles. Was it designed to be exploitable? Who knows. It's totally feasible it was designed by people who were shitty at their job prior to even dated IT tools that would make such things trivial. On top of that, the people who could be whistle blowers are the people who are very easily blamed, since what should be happening is actually supposed to be happening. The primary concern of the non partisan bureaucrat is to affirm that they are doing an excellent job and to do that with the least effort made. This is state and federal. They do not want to listen to you unless you have something so well documented and concrete, that their concern shifts from appearing competent and effective to distancing themselves from the guaranteed explosion of shit. The closest I was able to make that happen was getting a clerk who had just told me everything was fine and there was nothing they could do to then turn around and actually fix my problem after showing them I had a stack of documentation that things were in fact not fine and working. Media does not want to listen to you unless you have done all the homework and possibly not even then if they hold differing political views than those people affected. They certainly aren't interested in digging into suspicious looking stuff to find out if it is incompetence and systemic systems breakdown or corruption. I had my well documented situation, which nobody wanted to hear about. I eventually found three other people who had the same issue. That's still too small for anyone to care about. This predated social media, so there was no place to go make a stink and find more people to make that number bigger. Hell, it barely overlapped with OPRA existing in NJ. I doubt I'd find the same suspicious stuff now as the vote by mail laws would have negated the need for that mechanism. And I would suggest fucky stuff is still going on in middlesex. Last election, I had to show ID to vote. Why? The only legal reason to require ID to vote is if my information in the book is incomplete, or I failed to provide acceptable ID when I registered to vote (you'd think that would be handled by just saying no, come back with ID, but hey.... I'm sure the process suits someone's agenda). The thing is... anything that legitimately requires you to show id should force you to cast a provisional ballot in NJ. No provisional ballot. It was done to tons of people. You could prove it 100%. It'd just be answered with... well the poll workers are all temps they misunderstood the training. Hell they weren't even accepting the very broad and lax set of items that would count as ID. They were insisting on state issued picture id after initially requesting DL. So what do YOU do about it? And what are your grand ideas for what I should be doing about it?

Elections have consequences, I wonder when people will realize that?

Would background checks have stopped the shooter.

Let’s hope the filibuster holds up

I appreciate that. I cannot comment while there is an active case. It’s pretty simple for most to understand. Ant.

Met Anthony a number of times, been to the range numerous times to shoot and take classes, wish him all the best of luck with the new facility, If I had a business, don't think I could support such a corrupt (NRA) association. Everyone needs to take care if their own, But I don't own one. So I wouldn't know. Maybe there is a good reason we don't know which is definitely possible, either way I will still support GFH, and others, But for now not the NRA

Turkey breast reached 160° so I pulled it. Has to rest for a few hours, and then I’ll divide it up. Not as pretty as 10X’s bbq, but I ain’t going after the beauty contest!

Smoked some chicken wings today. We batch these up, vac seal and freeze them, and then crisp them up in the air fryer. Delicious. I popped a turkey breast on now.

I second (or actually third on this thread) about our best friend the filibuster holding strong. I'm not surprised the House voted the way they did. I'm pretty sure one of the R's that voted for it is Fitzpatrick from Bucks county, who acts and votes like a D.

$55.25 on Wednesday at a Wawa in Hamilton (Mercer) to fill up a Toyota puddle hopper at 4.98 a gallon. Then to add insult to injury after pulling out of the station back on to the road I ended up in back of another Toyota with a Biden bumper sticker

Recently had one take less than a day. Dude at the LGS said state was sued recently over this, which I hadn't heard.

Correct on first pic and sad on 2nd!!

We used 4 cans. Is that a coke can SBR?

A friend of mine knocked a guy out of a tree at about 75 yards . . .

Don't overthink your rifle ammo. Whatever the bullet profile is, 3000fps is going to deliver a bunch of energy on target. Just pick something that has satisfactory accuracy and is reliable in your gun. Then spend the time you would have used up looking for the perfect ammo to practice, practice, practice. Also bear in mind that if you zero your sights for one type of ammo, the point of impact will change if you switch to another type of ammo. Will it shift by much? Maybe, maybe not. It all depends on how different they are and the distance you are shooting.

M193 is FMJBT - 55gr boat tailed FMJ - it's fine for all over. For HD - neither M193/M855 are great. M193 is definitely the better of the 2, but still not great as it's "ball" ammo. Get a good SP/HP/OTM round. I have some IMI 77gr OTM "Razor Core" as well as Federal T556TNB1 (MK318 SOST) 62gr OTM. Old school favorites are Winchester Silver Tip and Speer Gold Dot.

fyi..... Shooters is $20 per person. $200 for an annual family membership. Steel at 150 yards. No handguns outdoors

You get what you pay for and Central Jersey in Jackson is well worth the money. Excellent facilities, great people and you can do things on your own. It's 100% safe and well run by "The Management".

I think it’s a bad thing in many ways, but a lot of this has been brought on by the NRA themselves

Because, gun ranges and codependency on NRA insurance racket. People will not cancel their NRA membership if they want to keep shooting. It's basically the exact same racket the dems have with welfare recipients. If NRA members have the courage to actually call or e-mail the NRA and outright CANCEL memberships by the hundreds of thousands (millions would be better), even life time members, maybe they will get the hint. If NRA members are committed to turning the do-nothing organization around, you will have to accept that there will be a cost. You can't just wish for change. I will not support the NRA as it currently stands. The price I've paid is not being able to become a member of a couple ranges I'd really love to join. I have to drive to Stafford Forge, Colliers Mills, Ft Dix or Clinton to shoot. The alternative is to get some other 2A group to insure ranges, or at least convince ranges to accept an alternative to the NRA. If NJ ranges accepted GOA, NAGR, SAF, etc, then we could break the cycle of codependency. If people put as much time and energy into demanding change in the NRA as they do bitching about the organization, Wayne would have been gone a long time ago.

Why? Why? Why? Is there anyone looking into this? When the rest of the country is instant, why is NJ so behind on checks? No covid excuses. No lack of employee excuses. No increase of first time purchaser excuses.

Talked to someone today. Said he went to a gun store in PA yesterday because they had the shotgun he was looking for. I know the difference between a long gun vs. handgun purchase out of state, but he was in and out in 15 minutes, including the time he spent chatting with the guys. When's the last time that happened in NJ?

The NJ RINO voted for it. yeah NJ will get carry someday ...

IMO, he didn't want to look like a Trump clone.

I'm sure most of you noticed that the national average crossed $5/gallon today? Gas prices hit $5 national average after rapid rise (msn.com) Let's go Brandon!

George stepped on his own dick: Twitter roasts George Takei for gun control tweet that accidentally supports 2nd Amendment (msn.com)

Absolutely. South jersey shooting club. Great club. But management. Fudds and assholes as of 4 years ago. From experience