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I agree not a accepting the psychologist letter is bs. The issue is physiological not medical. It shouldn't be but it is. The problem is finding a medical doctor to write the letter. I don't think anyone on this forum if they were a doctor, that would write such a letter. If I were I'm the same situation I know I could get such a letter from my cardiologist or orthopedic surgeon. I've been going to them for 12 and 43 years respectively. Point is, if you haven't had a long standing relationship with a doctor, they won't do it.

You also need an FID to buy handgun ammo in NJ. Some retailers require it for all ammo. There is no time requirement under Federal law for you to maintain two (or more) residences.

NJ law stops at NJ borders. If you're not a NJ resident you can transport any firearm or ammuntion THAT IS LEGAL IN NJ, to an exempted location (residence, range, gunsmith, ffl, hunting). Directly to exempted location and directly home. You can stop for reasonable deviations. You dont have to run out of gas, pee your pants, or die of thirst or starvation. There is nothing illegal about 30 carbine ammo in NJ. The only restriction NJ would have is if it's hollow point. If the 50,000 rds is fmj you can load it up and drive all over NJ without breaking any law. If you maintain dual residences you need to follow the laws of your states of residence when you're in that state. Just leaving your guns unsecured at your friends is a bad idea IMO. IANAL but I can't see how anyone can claim an illegal transfer if you leave the guns at your friend's secured in a safe he doesn't have the key or combination to. You don't need anything to move your guns back and forth between you NJ residence and PA residence as long as you're going directly. If you get a FID you can load all your unloaded NJ legal long guns in your trunk and drive all over in NJ without breaking a law. Not a good idea IMO.

You can satisfy your itch for a pistol caliber carbine and lever action with a lever action 357. Not expensive to feed and with the right load you can do just about anything you can do with a 30-30 with a 357 carbine. Wide variety of power loadings available OTC. It also is a perfect match for a 357 revolver and easier to shoot.

This sounds like the best idea. Get the referral from the psychologist that cleared you.

Familiarize yourself what. NRA good is. The rifle will be complete and most likely shootable but not pretty.

We went through some of this a few years ago when everyone was screaming about DHS ordering so many million rounds of ammo. I explained then that this order was over a 5 year period (common in the Federal government). Agencies with a smaller need for ammo, Social Security, Forest Service, EPA, Marine Fisheries, EPA, etc would piggy back on a big agency ammo contract so they all get a better price. This also makes the ammo contract a lot bigger. The Federal ammo contracts spread the wealth. They may buy 40 from Federal, 223 from Winchester, 9mm from CCI. and 12 GA from Remington. These contracts usually have no penalty for the government backing out as long as they buy so much ammo. Never heard of government backing out on an ammo contract. They do have penalties for the ammo manufacturers to back out and I never heard of that happening either. As Rosie explained these contracts keep ammo companies afloat no matter what the retail market is doing. I don't know anything about state ammo contracts but they are no doubt similar.

That could be a 10A issue in the state's favor without a SCOTUS decision defining arms under the 2A.

When I was managing an ammo budget and I had pallets of ammo delivered, my agency was paying less than half of retail at contract prices. If ammo manufacturers were to refuse to renew contracts with certain states a couple of things would happen: 1. We're talking liberal antigun states here. It wouldn't bother them in the least from having to raise another tax to offset additional expense of buying ammo. 2. Such states would no doubt take the issue to federal courts that ammo manufacturers are impeding interstate commerce (an Article I, Section 8 duty of Congress). Sounds like a the state might win this. Manufacturers may have to pay for reimbursing the states. This court battle will no doubt be paid for by raising more taxes. None of those taxes would go away of course.

I've used it as is on everything a normal person would use it for.

If you to make it more permanent use white nail polish and wipe the excess off after it dries.

Exposed ejector rods is one of the reasons Colts didn't take the LE market like S&W did. A bent ejector rod was more common in Colts. Doesn't make a difference on a range toy.

For 99+% of what I use a revolver for I'd agree. Bullseye shooters and hunters will disagree. They're correct too. There are so few concealed and shrouded hammer revolvers out there but having the option to shoot SA is not a bad thing.

Ray, that's not a hammer shroud it's an adjustable hammer.

That's the only hammer shroud I ever saw for a K frame OTC. If there's another let me know. Yeah, I guess you can have some custom job made if you want to send that much. Life jackets don't look sexy either but they work. Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings with the idea "form follows function". Check out the Guggenheim in Manhattan. Critics called it a coffee can turned upside down.

Ray if you want a shrouded hammer on a k frame thats what that horrendous thing does.

I don't know about cutting breaks for expired registration. When I was on a police department in the 70s expired registration was always a mandatory tow. Your car wasn't released until you showed up at headquarters with a valid registration, insurance id, and drivers license. Now I'll expand a bit on what @High Exposure said. Say the cop lets the person with the expired registration go and they get involved in an accident. If the other party finds out they were stopped, days, hours, or minutes earlier, for expired registration most would look at it as the cop's decision was the reason for the accident. If the cop wrote the ticket and towed the car the accident wouldn't have happened. As far as "a ticket a day keeps the sergeant away" maybe in some jurisdictions. People bitch about cops in low crime towns about cops sitting in a car for 8 hours with no calls eating donuts. If those cops write a few tickets the same people complain.

Shooting common ammo is a consideration but nothing gives you the OTC ammo variety of a 357. Wadcutters, std velocity, +P, +P+, and full 357s. Power level for whatever your needs. Seems to me there is a lot of 357 ammo out there that is downloaded from SAAMI maximum pressures. There is also 357 ammo that is loaded up to maximum pressures.

It has been this way in NJ since the 70s. IIRC it was the Trooper's Association that took the ticket quota to court.

@RecessedFilter I have a few different 357 revolvers you can try. I usually meet up with Zeke at TTC. PM me.

Armaloy!!! The original hard chrome. I knew the guy who had the Armaloy franchise for NJ. He had his shop on Elizabeth Avenue in Linden. It was through him I first met Jim Cirillo when he was still with NYPD. That M19 must have been slick with a Behlert trigger job and Armaloy.

Another place long gone is Austin Behlert's Custom Gun. Austin started working out of his garage in Cranford (?). He opened the shop on the Boulevard in Kenilworth and later on in Union when he needed more space. He wound up in PA later on. Austin was a master pistolsmith. He built chopped 1911s and S&W M39s. This was well before Colt Officer models and other compact and subcompact semiautomatics were made by manufacturers. Austin built 9mm Chief Specials well before S&W. His work obviously showed manufacturers it could be done and there was a market for it. Austin built the best PPC revolvers too. Austin did an action job with a 6 1/2 pound trigger. Guaranteed to set off any primer. I find it amusing when I see some kitchen table pistolsmith bring up their revolver with a 4 1/2 pound trigger. Have they discovered some unknown law of physics that Austin Behlert was ignorant of?

I liked Ray's Sport Shop. Some bad mouth the range but you have to remember in the Union/Essex/Somerset area it was the only indoor range area at the time. I don't think their gun prices were any higher than anyone else's. Their inventory was vast. Not only in guns but accessories as well. You need an expander ball for your 9.75 mm Karkenfarker dies? Ray's had it. Ammo and holsters for anything. Small part for your revolver? Also in stock. I became acquainted enough with Dwight the manager for him to know me by name. I never spent a lot of money there but have no complaints about the staff.

Well done. Succinct. No bs. Tell them what it really is.

The statute includes "training facility". Doesn't have to have a range.