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*sigh* Ok, here's the deal. Is food a legit stop? Technically no. Lets say you are diabetic and your blood sugar is spiking or crashing for whatever reason and you can't safely drive. Is stopping to rectify that within the law? NO, but so is driving impaired. I'll pass on some awesome advice I received form an LEO way back when. "If you don't want to get caught, stick to breaking one law at a time." Show me one case of someone prosecuted for this who wasn't buried under a bunch of other charges as well. Don't tempt fate, but don't drive yourself crazy with it. On it's own, it is an over restrictive law. There is no way to comply with it. Is the most direct route to the range the shortest by distance, or the shortest by time in transit. If I leave my home and take a three hour meandering trip right back home without stopping, have I note gone directly from my home to my home if the meaning of the statue is without any other stops? If it means the shortest route by time, and there is a car accident ahead that backs up traffic and I take a detour, but have no longer taken the quickest or shortest route, have I broken the law? If I go on a meandering joy ride, but only in the geographic region between my home and a rang I can actually go shoot at, can you prove I am not going to or from the range? As a law by itself, it is a waste of everyone's time, unless it provides the means for an officer who thinks there is something to be found to keep you form going on your way while he looks for it, or to pile on additional charges. Proving you actually broke the law is a PITA form the side of law enforcement. It really, really isn't worth the time and effort unless you think there is something else going on that you want to prove more.

Are you loading mixed brass? If yes, you will see a lot of variance, but 0.05 is more than I'd expect. I haven't loaded 9 in forever, but with mixed brass of mixed age in .40, I usually wind up with a spread of about 0.03 give or take. If I sorted by headstamp on brass I knew the number of firings on, it shrunk dramatically and was much more consistent. The other possibility is that you suck at measuring. You'd be shocked how inconsistent you cna measure using calipers and a fairly pointy round nose like a 9mm.

Possibly, but I remember some of the swarms when I was a kid/teenager. The last few broods have been total non events. Something's got to mess with them or it has to be much more regional than they make it out to be.

The baby eagle 10 rounders work quite well. The 15 rounders ALSO used to work quite well until they changed the follower design and they became 16 rounders. THe main issue with mags is that since the basic form factor is the same for CZ, EAA witness, baby eagle, the armalite cz-clone, etc., etc. THat you get a lot of 3rd parties and trying to make the same magazine serve fro fulfilling 5 + SKUs.

They are tracked. The system is called SEVIS. In theory, they are tagged on the visa side of things, and the schools report on attendees. If they do anything of use with it is a totally different matter.

Stripped lowers are becoming more available as are BCGs and barrels. Probably because the lowers are being focused on as they are the serialized firearm, the BCGs because they are going in rifles and being picked up as spare parts, and the barrels because nobody was prepared for the demand in terms of the materials supply chain which is getting sorted out. LPKs seem to have shown up everywhere. We are far from done. Upper receivers are only slightly more available than before. It's getting better, but it's not better yet. And that's not accounting for drop offs in QC.

Patience. We have actual lives and such.

An article I have long liked regarding that analogy. http://theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com/2009/07/of-sheep-wolves-sheepdogs-and-mutts.html?m=1

You are far from the first Dillon owner with a chain fire of primers that I have heard of. It's all been 650 users, and pretty much all of them weren't doing anything blatantly stupid. I do wonder what causes it though

We had a run on inventory in 2008. It was clear that the GOP was not serious about winning in 2012, and I didn't feel like waiting in line again, so I finished up my project guns and bought several years of reloading supplies in 2011. I finished up two nice ARs for less than I would have paid for one middle of the road AR recently. I got all my reloading supplies for less than the average cost of three cases of .223 over the last 4 months.

Nope primary didn't ask. Had a question for the pediatrician that lead to mentioning guns. He was aggressively more concerned about us being careful about water temps and not scalding the baby. You can guess what he sees a heck of a lot more kids in his office for.

I havent had an issue with froglube at all...seems to get it clean and wipes away nicely then a light coating and bam back to pew pew pew with out a problem. I haven't used it to clean. Most clp disappoints on the cleaning and i have plenty of solvents i like. It's corrosion protection is pretty bad and it doesn't seem to stay in place when you handle the firearm. Used it, by the end of the match I had plenty of pinhead rust from sweat, and the gun sounded like it was running dry. The pinhead rust happens with a couple lubes. The feeling like all the lube went bye bye in one afternoon is something I haven't had problems with with literally any other lube. Smells ok. It's overpriced crap.

not anymore

Agreed. Even my mags for my 2011 get set up to run right even with crap in them (to a point). They are just more of a PITA to get set up that way because what you get form the factory seems to always be changing.

To be fair, NOPD has run death squads for hire in the past and have regularly had to have interventions form outside forces. So... you can ask who should and shouldn't be on the streets there, you aren't going to get a very meaningful or useful answer.

IMO the lee perfect powder measure is far from perfect. the autodisk I think would work looking at the alliant load guide as you would be using one of the larger cavities. When I was using lee stuff, I had zero luck with the micrometer adjustable charge bar and had to stick with the disks but they worked pretty pretty well with the flake powders I used.. which weren't red dot, but from pics they look close enough size wise. So my $0.02. If youa re trying to use the charge bar, switch back to the disks. If your measure isn't good and dirty, give the sliding bits a rub down with a pencil to get them smoothed out if needed.

In my experience it is crap. If you come out to any of the local USPSA matches, let me know and I'll sell you the 99%+ remaining in my $30 kit for $20. As for the original question, the only thing I use that isn't fairly standard stuff in terms of tools are bamboo barbecue skewers. Snap off a chunk and fray the end and you have a device you can soak in solvent and scrub at stuck on gunk in pretty tight places without risk of abrading anything really. They are also fairly solvent agnostic. As for cleaners and lubes, I keep a decent teflon dry film spray, a decent molybdenum disulfide dry spray, some breakfree CLP, some fp-10, and all three weights of slide glide around as well as some butch's bore shine and some gunblast or equivalent. With that you can make most guns happy for most environments by picking and choosing correctly.

how the heck is shoitgun news clandestine. It's (or at least was) sold in B&N and borders. It's about as clandestine as computer shopper was.

Load them like normal. They will just split earlier as the plating process makes the brass more brittle.

Use some perspective. NJ2AS appears to be doing the groundwork for building a class for both situations. They have been gathering data on township compliance for quite some time, the fact that they have also been attempting to gain compliance without going to court is irrelevant. For osme reason people seem to forget that when they bitch and moan. Follow their existing advice and document, document, document.

Not even remotely true. I know people who avoid driving for less trauma than having a loved one killed in one. The reaction to a traumatic event doesn't differ because of what is associated with it. THe goal should still be to cope regardless of how hard or easy it would be to pretend there is nothing to cope with. That being said, for the OP if the wife doesn't give you a super hard time about owning guns, it's not like it is failing to cope at all. Even without the background, there isn't necessarily going to be a shared level of enthusiasm for everything.

Chris Christie is having a town hall in Sayreville 5-16. Anyone want to bring this up?

I've used titegroup for 45. with the lee autodisk. Not the best .45 powder, but it works. Just don't triple or quadruple charge your light loads.

Even if you agree with the death penalty conceptually as a punishment, do you really trust the politics of the prosecutors office with that kind of power? I don't. Also, in general I prefer the notion of an armed citizenry who makes committing the criminal act more dangerous. Making it dangerous 10-30 years after the fact isn't going to be nearly as effective as the increased potential of not succeeding in the act, possibly fatally, in the first place. When people get all excited about speeding up the execution process, I double down on the fear of politicians replacing justice with spinning the news cycle to their advantage, or DAs, AGs, etc. working on their stats for promotions or a political run.

With a long barrel for the pistol round, you can theoretically move to a slower burning powder and pick up some velocity. Theoretically. For knockdown steel, before we allowed pistol caliber carbines, we tested with a chronograph. Had a handful of people running open guns in 38 super and carbine uppers in the same caliber. Since hteir loads were set up for open guns to have lots of gas to drive the comp, we figured that would be the worst case scenario. With a 16" barrel we were getting nearly the exact same velocity as out of 5" comped 2011s. Our best guess was that even with slower burning powders, they were done burning before 16 inches, and friction kicked in bringing velocity back down.