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1000 9mm or 800 38 spl in 50 rd boxes.

If it said AR and ou disposed of it in PA you aren't making the lower compliant you're getting rid of it.

And can never be compliant in NJ no matter what you do to it.

You can work up from wadcutters to std loads to +P to +P+ to full magnums if recoil management is an issue. You can do it all with a 357.

Let her choose what she wants not you. My wife liked my old S&W Model 10 and it became hers. She became an above average combat shooter but wanted nothing to do with semi-autos.

Your armory is missing a 357 mag. A 4" L frame or GP100 does just about everything.

Most states,where I've bought ammo the only question I had at checkout is "is that all". Since the requirement of having a FID for handgun ammo came into existence internet/mail order places treat you 3 ways: 1. Will noe sell to NJ address at all. 2. Want your FID on file. 3. Will sell you what you want without anything on file.

There are not many states requiring ID to buy ammo. PA is not one of them. There are a,lot of states Bob could buy ammo.

You definitely give away your youth. OGAM is only a few years old. I never waited 30 days for a FID or P2P until moving to where I live now . Couple of weeks,at the most a couple of days more common. This,wait is more a function of where you have to apply IMO. I'm too young to have purchased without a FID but old enough I remember trying to convince my Mother to buy me a milsurp from one of the barrels,of them at Two Guys. Mausers and Enfields $14.95, Carcanos from $6.95. Ammo a few cents a round. This was mid to late 60s, even after FID was in effect.

Too much half baked info here. To the OP, do you live in NJ, some other state, or part time in NJ and part time in another state. You can only take possession of a handgun from anyone in the state you reside and must follow that states rules on handgun transfer. Having a hunting cabin you use for a few weeks a year is not a second home. There are no exceptions except for LE purchasing a firearm for work. If you happen to have a valid drivers license from a state you no longer live in and you buy a handgun there you are already commiting a felony. You need to give specifics because the law has pages and pages of what ifs.

As PeteF said if it was safe to shoot when loaded its safe to shoot now. I wouldn't risk damaging a gun without more info. I've shot some of my reloads that are over 35years old. Been shooting some surplus 45 GI hardball. Both shotas well as when they were made.

One needs to pay attention to quality control during reloading. I've seen plenty of factory loads no primer pocket, sideways or reversed primer, crunched neck, etc. You should find these when you inspect ammo when loading mags or speedloaders. Yeah a PITA but one needs to take it seriously.

Some of you guys seem pretty familiar with dealing with squibs. My question is what ammo are you using? I've fired at least 500,000 rounds in my time, factory loads, my reloads, and commercial reloads (probably a couple hundred thousand more).I've had this happen exactly once with a factory round. Maybe I've just been very lucky. The one time it did happen the bullet didn't fully engage the rifling and I poked it out with a cleaning rod.

I understand the restriction to military personnel and DoD civilians as both have had some type of background check to be in their positions. There would need to be language in the law to permit transport to work to deal with state lawsl like NJ's. It makes sense. That's why it won't get anywhere.

You are correct that LEOSA has nothing to do with a LEO carrying on a commercial flight. AFAIK the on duty with orders applies to state and local LEOs carrying on the plane last I looked. Agents from FBI, DEA, ATF, HSI, Secret Service, ICE, and other Federal agencies can carry all the time on commercial flights on duty or not. There are other requirements they meet to do so. If yours is an agency allowing you to carry all the time on commercial flights they let you know.

There are AR calibers that work for deer but semi auto rifles are not allowed to be used for hunting in PA. Bolt,lever, pump, or single shot. Okay.

It seems that all the Red Dawn bravado people were displaying in the "what if the US were invaded" is gone. Now its all leave it up to the "oathkeepers". Good luck with that. It's shift to survival mode and leave it up to others. Gone are the "I'll grab my AR and join the resistance" people. Welcome to reality.

You sure are throwing around money for license fees. If your only intent getting the licenses is to possess certain items you don't get one. You must be "engaged in the business". ATF will check your records to see how many guns you've bought and sold. Same for NFA items. How many dealer samples do you have and how many of those have you sold. How many guns did you manufacture?

Well said. Too many think its all glory. There's definitely a lot of romanticizing civil wars, resistance movements, revolutions, etc on gun forums.

You have to remember springs control three things in a revolver. Reliable ignition, reliable functioning, and trigger pull. A stock gun S&W or Ruger is set up for a good balance of all three. If you want to "improve" your revolver you can have two but not all three. For example many feel the trigger pull on a Colt is awesome. Colt achieved that by cutting back on the function reliability. Even in the weakened state brought about by my advanced age I can still outrun the trigger on a stock Python or Detective Special and lock the gun up. Can't do that with a stock S&W Now if you don't think you will be shooting fast in a defensive situation you need to think again. I saw a surveillance tape of shooting that took place in a fast food place about 10 years ago. The LEO shot the bad guy 11 times with his Glock 26 in under 2.5 seconds. He hit the bad guy 9 times and he was dead before he hit the ground. The LEO was not a "gun guy" and rarely shot when he didn't have to. Just something to keep in mind.

There are a bunch of places online that buy used phones in any state of operation. Google "selling broken iphone".

You can carry in your business and there is no requirement to inform police. I know people who just leave a gun at their business. The way one friend handles it is he leaves his house with his holster and mags on and his pistol in a locked case in his SUV. When he is in his lot (car repair business) he loads and holsters before he gets out of the car.If he has to leave his premises for any reason he locks his gun up in the office. When he's done for the day he unloads his pistol and locks in case before leaving the lot. All legal.

You're about 20 years late to find a good supply of 2" 10s or 64s. I prefer steel J frame size guns myself as the weight makes tames recoil and speeds recovery time. You might look at Taurus small frame guns and you can get a steel frame for your price point.I realize for your price range S&W steel frames are out of the question new. I had an issued stock 640 (DAO) that I used to ding IPSC size steel targets with all day long. That gets me to my next point which is I've never been a fan of swapping out springs in a carry revolver. When you do so you slow down the cycling of the gun and that 3 or 4 lbs you save in trigger pull may be the difference between the round going off or a light hit. There is a lot less mass in the hammer on a J frame to help that primer go off. I know a lot of people on this forum think a 12 lb trigger pull is impossible to shoot well with but I know different. The agency i worked for Issued Glock 9mms and thats the only handgun you trained on in school. However, they had J frame S&Ws in the inventory for issue as BUG/off duty. A lot of these agents never shot a gun of any type until they got in the academy. If they wanted a revolver I gave them a day on the range and about 400 rds through one. These were all stock with about a 12 lb trigger. When they qualified many maxed the qual course. If you are willing to learn how to shoot a 12 lb trigger it can be done by anyone, Too many people lighten triggers not to gain an edge but as a crutch to mask poor technique. Unless you do something that requires a lot of grabbing you may have to condition the muscles in your fingers and hands. Using a hand exerciser or squeezing a rubber ball will do it. Smooth is much more important than light in a revolver trigger. I tried to explain this to one of the gun game guys on this forum but he was not interested in hearing anything. He was surprised when he found out Miculek uses extra power springs (he couldn't shoot as fast as he does if he didn't. If you want to smooth up a new revolver just lube the internals liberally and dry fire it 500 times. You may get a blister on your finger if you do this all at once but you will feel it smooth up. And its free.

Hoppes or carb cleaner will remove the carbon easier. A brass key also makes a good scraper. If you scrape some of the carbon off first you give the solvent more surface area to work on.

Those things have worked for me for over 45 years of shooting ARs, M16s, and M4s. There really isn't a need for a "special tool" for everything.