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The EZ sling isn't really complicated once you set it up and try it out. It does let you do a lot of things thatyou didn't think a sling was for. I agree HE has the most knowledge of what's out there and what's good and what's garbage.

The only reason I have you all wrong is from the statement you made.

BTW, the 6A guarantee of facing your accusers only applies to when you are going to trial. You can go through the system from arrest, initial appearance, grand jury, and arraignment without seeing your accusers. Hearsay is also allowed thoughout the system until you go to trial.

I do not like red light cameras. You can go to court on that red light camera ticket though, plead not guilty and face whoever signed the ticket and present evidence to dispute it. I don't know where you got the idea you couldn't fight a camera ticket. There are people who have fought them and were found not guilty for various reasons. Yes, there have been abuses of Constitutional Rights. If you feel the Constitution is so far gone can you name a place where you have more rights? Cuba and North Korea have no rights but I don't think they are better places to live. If you really feel that way about the Constitution how can you expect anyone to listen to you when you argue your Constitutional Rights? They are only good to prop up a table leg according to your statement. You either believe in what the Constitution says, all of it, or you don't.

plode, I agree you shouldn't be harassed. However, the police recording your statement is hearsay. There are other Amendments than the 2nd and the 6th guarantees a defendant the right to be confronted in court by witnesses against them and the right to obtain witnesses for their defense. As.far as forgetting what happened there is nothing wrong with you being provided a copy of the police report to refresh your memory. You just can't buy part of the Constitution.

One point slings are only good for keeping your long gun from hitting the ground. Other than that they are useless pos imo. Your long gun dangles in front of you hitting your knees and gets in the way of anything you want to do. I like the EZ Sling. Once you have it on you can easily holster your long gun, move it to your back out of the way completely. If you need your long gun you can quickly reach over your shoulder and redeploy. You can use your long gun from either shoulder with no further adjusting. There is a You Tube on this. They used to include a DVD showing you how to set it up and use it. These have been around for nearly 15 years I know of. There may be something better out there but I've been satisfied with the EZ Sling for nearly 15 years. High Exposure may chime in and has more knowledge of what's on the market now.

Is this subpeona for a deposition or a court appearance? Yes, depositions can be taken anywhere but do you want both attorneys and a stenographer in your living room? The attorneys want to do a deposition by their clock on their terms. There is no prosecutor in a civil case. There is a plantiff (the one who was wronged) and a defendant (the one who supposedly did the wrong).

You need to contact who sent you the subpeona and address these issues. Travel expenses including lodging if required and lost wages need to be brought up. Its been my experience if you don't bring it up to some attorneys you won't be paid. Many times they will pay a flat fee for all your expenses and will telll you this before you have to appear. Whatever it is have the attorney send you a letter regarding this compensation (so they don't forget). This is for civil cases. You will be compensated for travel in criminal cases in Federal court if you receive the subpeona from the US Attorney's office. There is no mechanism to reimburse you for lost wages when you're being called to testify for the prosecution. Civic duty here. If you're called by the defense, its up to them how they handle it. If the defendant is indigent the US Attorney will pay travel expenses. The defense attorney should have worked this out with the US Attorney. A deposition will still require you to be somewhere where attorneys from both sides can ask you questions, albeit at a more convienent time for you. Depositions are usually fishing expeditions to my experience. They are kind of trying the case out of court. They establish what you'd testify to and you most likely would still have to testify if the case goes to trial.

Berettas have a shoulder on the firing pin which smacks into the inside of the breech if you dry fire without a snap cap. I've seen several broken firing pins (the tip breaks off in the channel) on older Berettas attributable to dry firing. IIRC the military manual for the M9 when it was introduced cautions against excessive dry firing. Not sure what it says now but I don't dry fire Berettas as a rule.

Hoppes No 9 does the job if you keep up with it. Hoppes also makes a copper solvent which works better. It's important to let the solvent soak for a while. Let the solvent do the work not the brush.

Midway is oos but Grafs has Privi 8x57 brass for about $50/100.

i I've been to the PX at Ft Carson numerous times over the past several years visiting my daughter in Colorado Springs. The PX there, as many others do, sells guns and ammo. They wouldn't sell me a handgun without proof of CO residency (as expected). NICS is a Federal requirement so they would have to do that. They are not subject to state regulation so I don't know about P2P and FPID cards. The only military installation I bought any guns at was the Rod and Gun Club in Fort Huachuca when I was assigned there in 1988-89. There were no issues buying anything there as the only regs that had to be followed were Federal. FFLs off post would sell me anything with my military ID and a copy of my orders assigning me there. Not a good comparison I know as there are very few gun laws in AZ. While gun prices at the Rod and Gun Club at Huachca were ridiculously cheap, the prices at the PX were at or near MSRP. I remember the Rod and Gun Club when I was stationed in Germany in 1970. Browning High Power for $85. I couldn't buy one because I was 20 years old.

There is no exemption for what I said but there are a lot of what you would consider "illegal transfers" that occur on a daily basis. 1. If I pull up to departures at EWR enroute to a hunting trip in Canada and have all my gear including guns in locked put on a cart by a skycap and taken to the counter is that an illegal transfer? 2. If I leave one of my guns with my wife when I go on an overnight trip is that an illegal transfer? 3. If I come over your house and you let me handle one of your guns is that an illegal transfer? 4. If I am leaving the country for a few months and take all my guns and safe over to a friends house. I put all the guns in the safe and lock it and don't give my friend the key or combination is that an illegal transfer? In #1 and #4 the person handling my locked up guns has no access to them. If you have no access to the firearm how can there be a transfer. In #2 and 3 the other person actually takes possession of the gun. I've never heard or anyone arrested for either unless they commit some crime with the gun.

I think some prices will go down. If ammo is hard to get and the wholesaler or retailer want to add a premium to it that premium will go away when ammo is more available. Simple supply and demand economics whether its ammo, oil, or pork bellies.

Ryan, a Retired Police Officer permit in NJ doesn't list any firearms on it. You do list the firearms you qualify with on the qualification form. There is no regulation requiring someone with a RPO permit from carrying any handgun they own, even if they don't qualify with it. LEOSA says you can only carry a handgun "of the same type of action". If you qual with a Glock you can't carry a revolver. True, you have to check your own luggage. However, I think you'd be hard pressed to claim if I gave someone one of my handguns in a locked container they didn't have access to to carry for me there was a "illegal transfer". If any thing would kill the proposal wooly bugger made it would be the skycap's union.

True but back in the 70s if you were making $20-25k a year your had a really good job. Other than surplus ammo the only imported ammo I can remember is Norma and it wasn't that common. I think Americans got a little spoiled with cheap imported ammo through the 90s and into 2000. That box of WW, RP, or S&W 38 hollowpoints cost about $8. Adjusted for inflation that should be about $32 today. The only premium handgun ammo around until they went out of business in 1974 was the original Super Vel and that cost $11-12, $44-48 in today's dollar. The ammo shortages are induced by panic buying by shooters not some government conspiracy. The guy who would shoot a couple of boxes a month and not have a reserve supply finds the shelves are bare. This is because people are buying all the ammo they can because they fear Obama is going to make ammo illegal. The next time this casual shooter goes into the store and they have ammo, he buys 10 boxes instead of 2. This contributes to the "shortage". There was a primer shortage that lasted about 2 years at the start of the Clinton administration. Rumors were they were going to categorize primers as an "explosive". There were people buying primers who didn't reload. Reloaders bought every primer they could get their hands on.

What Mr Stu says is correct. However unless you're using really crappy 38 ammo, 100 rds shouldn't gum up the chambers enough to prevent 357 from being inserted or ejected. I'm inclined to believe you really need to clean the cylinder well. There are mechanical ways to do this but you're better off minimizing the scrubbing with a brush, chore-boy, or whatever. Use a good wide range solvent like Hoppe's No 9. Swab the cylinder with solvent, brush each chamber a few times, swab with solvent again and let sit for a few minutes and brush again. You may have to repear this 10 times to really clean the cylinder but when the patches come out clean the cylinder will be as clean as the day it was made.

This is a difficult time for you having been through it myself.

I agree.

Para 2 does say a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously below the acton and 3 just says pistol grip. Are they trying to say a fixed pistol grip stock in 2 and a pistol grip only stock in 3?

NJAC 13:54-1.2. para 3 (immediately after what I previously quoted) says: "a semi-auto shotgun with either a magazine capacity exceeding 6 rds, a folding stock, or pistol grip (is an AW). So a pistol grip is legal according to para 2 but illegal according to para 3. I'm not making this up but reading from a copy of the admin code downloaded from the NJSP website. Looks like we're all right! Did anyone proof read this when it was written? I guess you would be prosecuted because para 3 is after para 2.

NJAC 13:54-1.2, para 2.iii says, semi-auto shotgun with at least TWO of the following is illegal: 1. folding or telescopic stock 2. pistol grip 3. fixed mag over 6 rds or 4. detachable magazine

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o Most of the tests conducted that I saw used dry wall and 2x4 for the test medium. It doesn't seem like it should be the way I explained but it is. You certainly don't have to believe me but if you Google "223 penetration in building materials" you will find many references to what I said in my prior post. The FBI and other sources confirm what I said. MG Julian Hatcher was Chief of Ordnance for the Army and spent most of his career as an engineer at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. If you're talking about penetrating one interior wall almost everything you shoot will penetrate. The 223 will cause a less serious wound due to being deformed and the velocity lost. Given enough interior walls (can't remember the number) and you will stop the 223 before you stop the 9mm.

There has been tests by several agencies showing the 223/5,56 is less penetrating in building materials than a 9mm. The high velocity of the 223/5,56 coupled with the light weight of the bullet will cause the bullet to upset and fragment faster than most handgun rounds including 9mm. Use a hollowpoint or softpoint 223 and penetration is more limited. Many SWAT teams have changed from MP5s to M4s for this reason. There is also the issue of the bullet in a rifle being over stabilized at close ranges causing it to wobble a little at closer ranges. This enhances the fragmentation and helps limit penetration. This is not a new concept and Julian Hatcher showed how a 44 magnum bullet out of a handgun penetrated more at 25 yds than a 30-06 from a rifle. At 200 yds a different story. This was illustrated in "Hatcher's Notebook" over 50 years ago.