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Would that be because of reliability issues?

Some will say say reloading is faster than drawing a second gun but I'm not going to debate that. You can set conditions where either one can win. Drawing a BUG is always faster than clearing a malfunction though. There's another reason a BUG is a good idea. If something happens, you have a BUG, and you are with someone who is trained but not armed you can give that person one of your guns and you've made it a lot harder for the bad guys. Someone mentioned guys in Iraq and Afghanistan who only carried one gun. That's true but I bet they had more than one magazine.

Bob and Richies Sunoco on Newark Avenue in Elizabeth. I've been going there for 30 years and still take my car there when I can (I live in Ocean County). Better to take your car there early and pick it up after 5 as they are usually very busy as they do a lot of fleet work. They're honest guys who won't sell you something you don't need and charge fair prices. I've always been leery of mechanics that could always take care of you right away because they didn't have people waiting.

There was one bit of advice I got from someone long ago when first going to French Canada. If you run into a French Canadian that makes believe they can't speak English make it clear to them you are an American not Canadian. Some French Canadians feel if you're Canadian you should be able to speak French and English like they do. If you're an American that's okay and they'll speak English to you. Never encountered it much but when I did letting them know I wasn't Canadian always got them to speak English.

I'm all for everyone having all the handguns they want. Beware of the man who only owns one handgun because he's probably very good with it!

This is an example of the training films (no videos at that time) I was shown when I started as a cop in 1974. BTW those huge walkie talkies were still in use by many departments at that time.

I wouldn't say it sucks and have been doing it at times over the past 40 years. I use a DeSantis Speed Scabbard for OWB or a Milts Sparks Summer Special IWB. I hide the OWB under something like a Hawaiian shirt this time or year. The IWB I hide under a loose fitting tshirt. My normal EDC is a S&W Model 66 2 1/2" so there is little difference between this and a 4". Don't forget a 2X2 pouch for a reload.

If you Google and read the links there was no "offering to sell guns" or "supposedly". Norinco was making deals with criminal elements to supply some heavy duty weaponry. Although I enjoy blaming Bill Clinton for everything he could be blamed, banning Norinco imports was the only punitive action available to take against Norinco.

I agree and disagree with some of what's already been said. Wadcutters are an excellent bullet to use for most applications. They cut a clean hole in targets but will probably chop up your self healing target. Don't use a hollowbase wad if you want high velocities. You can blow out the hollow base and leave a ring of lead in the forcing cone or barrel. If you want to jack up velocities use a plain base or double ended wadcutter. Some designs allow you to crimp the bullet for a longer OAL which will give you more room for powder. +P or even magnum velocities can be achieved this way. You most likely will see very little if any gain in accuracy between a plain or hollowbase bullet. Jim Cirillo did a lot of searching for the perfect SD bullet and most of his designs wound up as a wadcutter with a cup point. He was known to use a full wadcutter in the tube followed by concentional hollowpoints in a 1911 while on the stakeout squad. The problem with a wadcutter as a SD bullet has never been one of shape but velocity. However a target velocity wadcutter will give 14"+ penetration in ballistic gel which is considered adequate for SD use. The penetration is due to the fact that a wadcutter's weight is either forward (with a hollowbase) or evenly distributed (with a plain base) so it doesn't tend to turn around like most bullets. The bullet is already in an efficient shape, a shape that a hollowpoint needs to start expanding to get to. A target wadcutter gives soft recoil, an efficient shape, and lower recoil which is why I carry it as a SD bullet in a. J frame size revolver. These virtues outweigh the 75-100 fps I'd get from a +P bullet in a 2" barrel. The only real downsides to a wadcutter are a low ballistic coefficient and its harder to reload. The BC is not an issue up to 50 yds although you will start to see target loaded wadcutters keyholing at that range from a 2". Reloading fast can be an issue but PPC shooters have been doing it for years.

A defeatist attitude? Bad way to be. I've carried a gun on just about a daily basis for almost 40 years and been a police firearms instructor since 1976. I've always believed if you're carrying a gun you need to do it right and that includes carrying at least one reload. I usually carry two with a revolver. A speed loader for full reloads and a 2x2 pouch for patrial reloads. If I have to pick one I'd go with the 2x2. There was a NYPD officer who went to get her hair done on a day off. She found herself in the middle odf a holdup. She hit all 3 bad guys with her 5 shot revolver. Yeah five hits on three targets. She didn't have a reload. She went to get the guns away from bad guys but one of them recovered enough to get off one more shot and shot her. If she had a reload and used it before disarming the bad guys she may not have been shot. Fortunately she recovered. This was one incident that convinced NYPD brass to allow semi autos. A Fed showed up at a gunfight with his 6906 with the 13 rounds in the gun and no reload. He decided he needed to move (but couldn't reload before doing so because he had none) and while doing so ran out of ammo. The only two things that saved him. One was the lack of marksmamship of the part of his opponent who managed to hit the agent in the foot. The other, and more livesaving, was the other officers on the scene who took out the bad guy permanently. I think when its your day its your day. But I don't believe in helping it along. I wear a helmet on a motorcycle even if I'm in a state that doesn't require one and a life jacket in rough weather or if I'm running a boat by myself. I also carry at least one reload.

Follow the TSA and airline rules and its never taken me more than 10 minutes out of Newark. That Includes the one time TSA wanted to look in the bag.

The brass disc is an inspection tag indicating bore condition, bore size, and any variation of elevation shooting military ammo. Google "swedish mauser brass disc" and go to the link for Chuck Hawks website and he explains it all well. Yours has some wear but the Swedish armorers were very picky. The Swedes were so picky they even insisted on providing the steel to Mauser for making these rifles. The Israeli Mauser you saw is worth more than the $200 if it was in decent shooting condition. I wouldn't say the 1917 date makes it rare. Just means it was made during WWI. It still is a 98 Mauser. Mausers were commonly marked by maker and the year of production. I have an Israeli Mauser in near mint condition and the receiver was made by FN for the Germans in 1944. Most of the Israelis I've seen were made from receivers made during WWII. I'm sure some WWI receivers found their way into being converted so I wouldn't call them rare. Maybe less common but not rare. If you look at photos from the Yom Kippur War you'll see reservists still carrying these rifles. IIRC Maks seemed to know a bit about these Israelis. Perhaps you could PM him and he can provide more info.

This has been my experience from the several DPMS I've fired. Easily outshot M1As costing twice as much.

Both of those links are percussion kits he's looking for flintlock.

If concealment is not an issue why IWB? OWB is much more comfy and faster than IWB and fits any body shape.

Cold Steel makes some nice ones in your price range. MSRP is higher but Midway has them in stock in your price range.

What type of gun training and gun permit are you referring to?

That's according to an opinion by the NJ AG. The AG is saying in this case that Federal law does not apply to NJ residents (NJ ret LEOS). That opinion by the NJ AG is contradicting Federal law. LEOSA starts ouy by saying "Notwithstanding...any state or local laws except". Those exceptions do not include an dissenting opinion by a State AG. The AG can say what he wants but if you live in NJ and meet the standards under LEOSA there is nothing the State AG can do legally. One example if someone leaves their LEO job in good graces after 10 years they can qualify under LEOSA but not under the RPO permit process. The RPO permit process varies greatly from the normal permit process. First you have to go through a 20 or more year vetting process. You apply directly to NJSP not through a police chief and judge. There is no judge involved in getting a RPO permit. You also have a two times a year training and qualification requirement. There is a big difference between the experiences of a combat infantryman and a street encounter of a LEO or citizen carrying legally. Most notable is it usually doesn't make a difference if an infantryman hits the enemy he is aiming at or the enemy soldier standing next to that soldier. I make this observation based on the fact I've served in both infantry and LE capacities. The often repeated "fact" that most (more than 50%) of LEOs never draw their gun on duty needs some debunking. This may be the case in Mayberry but you're going to have to look hard for the Newark, Elizabeth, or Jersey City cop who has never drawn their gun. That goes for most police agencies in the state including Feds. "Pulling their piece" is one thing and shooting someone is another. The fact that most LEOs never shoot anyone in line of duty has nothing to do with what most people consider level of training which they interpret to be the number of rounds theu shoot annually. NYPD has stats proving how well one does in qualification has no relationship to how they do in a gunfight. Jeff Cooper said gunfighting is about 95% mental and 5% actual skill with the firearm. Just because someone is an ace game boy in IPSC or some other game discipline doesn't make them a gunfighter. Yes, retired cops are retired. They have no obligation to do anything if they see someone getting hurt. But you can't take the cop out of them. If you look on other forums you'll see many people who have a CCW say its to protect them and their family. They don't care if someone is beating your grandma with a baseball bat across the,street. But a cop usually thinks like a cop the rest of their lives. For more insight on this read the chapter "Guns" in "Target Blue" by Robert Daley (or Daly). Better yet read the whole book. And you'll better understand why cops think like cops. All that said, I'm all for Constitutional Carry by law abiding citizens and if you screw up you pay for it. I know that CC scares most,states. Every good citizen should be,able to carry a gun without much fuss.

I'm sure Christie already knows what he's going to do and shouting something at him isn't going to change his mind. Unless others are shouting political views at him you'll attract unwanted attention. I've yet to see how commenting about his obesity really has anything to do with his politics. He's already made that it clear such comments don't bother him. Would you call a fat 2A supporter "fatso" and offer him donuts and cheese steaks? I'm not a big fan of Christie's. Has talking about how ugly Hillary Clinton is achieved anything?

Looks like my 308 M1 Tanker.

Not a legal requirement. Nothing illegal about copying it.

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I don't use ammonia but was just relating the origins (to my knowledge) of how people came to think the ammonia in Windex has some magic properties. Sorry if I bored you. The point is ammonia itself has no effect on the salts. Household ammonia will remove the salts because its mostly water.

Its either an error or that's with the Obama ammo tax.

You don't need LEOSA to cover you if you're a Fed....because you're a Fed. State laws do not apply to you as long as you are in compliance with your agency's firearms policy., State COs are covered by LEOSA out of NJ. There are several state COs on this site and they can give you more insight on this. IMO I would supply them with all the information and if a document was required I'd provide what I can tell them I am requesting what I don't. Its been a long time since I filled out a job application but I did do background investigations and oversaw the Personnel Security Program for a major command in the military.