Everything posted by raz-0
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First Time Buyer, What is the actual process?
you can bring them home. BUT... Make sure they do not have an integral suppressor. NJ has it's head up its ass on that one. The federal government just needs them to not be removable. But since in NJ they are a firearm, yay you are in possession of a supressor that is illegal.
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Hello Unlawful NJ. 9-0! RED FLAG LAWS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Supreme Court rules warrantless home gun confiscation is unconstitutional in 9-0 vote
Because it has nothing to do with exigent circumstances. That's why. I mention it because it is a form or warrantless search and this decision has been poorly represented as to its effect on warrantless searches as it is NOT about warrantless searches, but specific kinds of warrantless searches. I'm not sure why my feelings on exigent circumstances are relevant, but since you asked... I'm fine with the use to protect life and limb. I probably have different opinions than law enforcement on what, if anything, should be admissible as evidence when discovered under exigent circumstances. Using that excuse for apprehending a non-violent suspect? Is it at the boarder where they may in fact flee the legal system? No? Then stay the fuck out of my stuff. You can find them later. If they are a known violent offender than see the above about preservation of life. Destruction of evidence? You probably should have had a better case or you can just the 47 other bits of evidence you likely have against them. But I also think we could likely do with several thousand less laws. When you need massive exceptions to constitutional rights to do your job, you need to either do your job better, or it's time to seriously consider if the job needs doing at all or to that degree. See the war on drugs as the perfect example. Most of the violence involved comes from creating a black market. Most of the non distribution based crime comes in the form of theft to pay for the drugs. Lots of expense comes from both law enforcement costs and incarceration to save me from a problem that the system created. It'd likely be cheaper and more productive to have state sponsored rehab and trap houses. You either want help, or let you press the happy button till it kills you. If you are a functioning substance abuser, why the hell are we bothering you anyway? If you aren't, you either wind up in rehab or dead eventually. Why drag it out with expensive side trips through the legal system and incarceration? You see exigent circumstances used constantly to justify standard tactics in the drug war because "evidence might be destroyed" It's how we got to seemingly every warrant being a no-knock with machine guns and body armor. Even for mundane shit. Yet apparently it doesn't apply to shredding documents. Apparently some evidence is more critical than others. I can tell you as an average person, who has even had their residence broken into by drug addicts, those documents that got shredded have caused me more harm than drugs that might have gotten flushed down the shitter. I didn't see the tac teams kicking in doors and going in hot when investigating the banks that laundered the drug money. Is it, currently, as fucked as say qualified immunity? No. But it could use to be clarified and reigned in a bit... along with several thousand less laws.
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Hello Unlawful NJ. 9-0! RED FLAG LAWS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Supreme Court rules warrantless home gun confiscation is unconstitutional in 9-0 vote
That's you. My post was basically a slightly more wordy version of don't cheer, this does nothing about exigent circumstances or red flag orders (because red flag orders come with warrants, even if they are shit tier warrants).
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Hello Unlawful NJ. 9-0! RED FLAG LAWS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Supreme Court rules warrantless home gun confiscation is unconstitutional in 9-0 vote
I just said it doesn't cover exigent circumstances. I understand what they are just fine. I'm not sure what you think you are talking about. My statement is literally this ruling has no bearing on exigent circumstances and searches based on a warrant. It has to do with a very specific situation which is neither of those things. Red flag orders are shit tier warrants, but still involve a warrant. So this ruling has nothing to do with that. This is because the general concept of a warrant is it is issued in the investigation of criminal acts. It can very well be a warrant issued to police because police have said they would like a warrant to harass someone who has done nothing. That being the point of red flag orders. To do something to someone who has in fact not done anything actionable. I'm sure that red flag orders will not survive contact with an honest court protecting people's rights, but this case is not that case. We aren't there yet.
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First Time Buyer, What is the actual process?
https://www.gunbroker.com/ffl/index you can look up FFLs near you that will do internet transfers here. It's always a good Idea to contact the FFL before you order and have it delivered. If you can't get ahold of them ahead of time, you will have problems getting ahold of them after they have your stuff. But even so it's a good idea to let them know something is coming and to make sure their listed rates are current so there are no surprises.
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Hello Unlawful NJ. 9-0! RED FLAG LAWS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Supreme Court rules warrantless home gun confiscation is unconstitutional in 9-0 vote
Yeah people are working way too hard to pat themselves on the back. This doesn't cover exigent circumstances, and it doesn't cover the shit-grade warrants you get in the case of red flag orders. Those will have to be another case. Don't expect them to ever give up exigent circumstances. If we are lucky, red flag laws will be reigned in given the lack of a crime.
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Proposed Rule 2021R-05
https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/definition-frame-or-receiver/submit-comment It's time to submit comments. I will also point out that if they decide the upper and lower are serialized firearms, that every semi-auto pistol and rifle is a multiple firearm purchase. That means that every purchase of them gets filed straight to the BATFE. Currently only taking comments by fax and mail. They may never open the eportal for this one.
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U.S. Supreme Court weighs taking up major gun rights case
I agree. Unfortunately we are in the 3rd circuit, and unless Trump's appointees swing it to something sensible, they are operating on a history of ignoring what SCOTUS says with regards to the 2A.
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U.S. Supreme Court weighs taking up major gun rights case
You are never going to get a "shall not be infringed" strict scrutiny ruling. Ever. Fundamentally every portion of the government believes they have at authority to regulate everything to some degree, and the court is no exception.
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U.S. Supreme Court weighs taking up major gun rights case
Most of your suggestions are highly unlikely. Mostly because they are shitty, vulnerable ways of being trying to not comply via bureaucratic bullshit. There's already cases to oppose licensing fees related to the second. This would just accelerate them. Medical exams for what? You don't have a constitutional right because you aren't in perfect health? If they tried to hang refusal to grant a license on the status of membership in a protective class, that... won't go well for them unless they can show a very, VERY tight link between compelling need and the rule. Like requiring you to not be blind. The smoking thing would rely on proof of a negative, which you can't do. The "gun free zones" thing would not be radiuses. We've already covered this with regards to guns in the past, and the 1000ft of a school thing lost as functionally equivalent to a ban. These are more realistic threats. Although given that they have already shut down liability insurance for firearms use in NJ, mandating what they have already banned likely wouldn't go very far in the courts before getting dumped. Once again, we've already been there with the 1000ft school zone thing. The court says you have a right to X. Except there is functionally no where you can exercise the right. That's a ban on the right. There's much simpler ways than the stupidity above. Simply make being in violation of signage rules a heavy felony and make the signage rules ambiguous. I mean you could carry, but odds are you will go to jail for it. That's a much harder court case.
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Change of careers
The only chefs I know are ex-chefs. So.... Once you aren't new to the workforce, transferable experience and a good explanation of how you got from there to here matter more. Right now is the perfect time to leave the restaurant biz. It's a hurting industry right now. If you want to go back, you have the perfect story to go back. COVID kicked the crap out of the business and I needed money. After x years of the soulless yadda yadda, I found that may passion for making food yadda yadda.
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4/15/21 - Murphy's dropping more "Gun safety reforms"
We have a point of sale nics and you believe that? I mean I guess if you do multiple purchases on one nics they wouldn't have it, but then the FFL has to file the purchase with the BATFE. Which I'm sure there is no way NJ could get that data.
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AR -15 weight and shooting issues
Does level of effort make a difference. For shooting off hand. your weak side is stabilizing and steering the gun or at least should be. Most people default to using a pulling motion for the weak hand on the forergrip. However, a pushing motion can work just as well. Possibly using a slightly different set of muscles might help you out. If doing that, strong hand operates the trigger and pulls the butt of the gun into the shoulder pocket. Also if bringing your right arm to the centerline of your body while extended is the bad juju, but it's less bad if kept more in line with the right shoulder, than a ryker fist grip might be the thing for you.
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Precious metals
We'll see about the monetary crisis, but the point of silver or gold is as an inflation hedge. You don't trade it to your neighbor. You buy things with cash. You just use the PMs to get more cash than that crap you have in the bank that trades 1:1 with the current garbage value of cash (at the time of said hypothetical crisis). Push the crisis a bit farther, and it is something to flee with to someplace else where you can turn it into the local coin without people laughing in your face. Beyond that for the mad max situation (well mad max would probably be the above, it's more like road warrior and on level here), it's going to be fairly useless for trade. In that case silver is probably the more useful metal to have in possession practically speaking.
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White House Seeking EOs on Gun Control...
One nice thing about EOs is they go straight to SCOTUS. No spending years winding through the courts.
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Reload or "offload"
Yup. Projectiles aren’t awful. Google is still better at finding once fired brass. The powder comes and goes. And posting primer stock notices only goes so far when the cheapest in the last month has always been midway and they are at $60 per k. I saw $100 per thousand up there this afternoon.
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Reload or "offload"
What I can reload for out of my existing supplies is way less than that. But cheapest primers I’m seeing are $60 per k plus hazmat with a 5k limit. That’s about $0.07 per primer. Coated lead is at least $0.07 each. Jacketed is going to be around $0.12. Brass is going to also be about $0.07 a piece. If you can score an 8lb jug of powder is going to be about $0.02. If you are getting hit with full hazmat on a couple of 1lbers it’s going to be about $0.03. Worst case you are limited to a single pound which will put it at about $60 a pound and maybe $0.04 per round. that’s all a 10-50 day wait to receive it.
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The View From SG Ammo
Some companies try to keep in mind that part of maintaining a good customer relationship is good communication. I'm sure the revenues are high, the profits may be too, but I guarantee you this stuff is major stress for them. As for shipping, I know of at least one place that has started having issues with volume because their shipping staff is starting to drop with repetitive stress injuries from the volume being pushed through. Shipping is an area you can usually hire temps and get them productive quickly, but likely they don't move as much product as fast as your experienced people. It's a hot mess.
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Reload or "offload"
So my $0.02 I don't know what you spent, but jacketed frangible rounds are a niche item and are likely pricey during normal times. When things calm down, I doubt you would be able to unload them without taking a nice loss. Right now your ability to move them is better, but projectiles are the one thing not in super short supply. Right now I can't get what I WANT, but I can get something that'll work. Which is basically the same thing you are offering. I can go and order 62gr bullets for $121 per k right now and the only wait is for it to actually be packed and shipped. Their inventory says they have over 1.1 million in stock, and they have had them up for a week plus. To turn it into loaded ammo, right now you would need a press (scarce), .223 dies (super scarce), various reloading tools and accessories (mostly available), small rifle primers (ultra scarce), .223 brass (limited, but available at a premium), brass prep equipment (because the brass you can find is likely not even cleaned, much less sized, trimmed, swaged, etc.), powder (limited, but if you aren't picky just requires some stalking to pick up), etc. During normal times, getting set up to reload rifle is minimally a $300-400 proposition. figure right now that is probably doubled. So you will be having to play the track it down game or pay scalper prices for each one of those, or you can just do that with a case of ammo and probably be in about the same place but have a few hundred more rounds. Right now, even with a lot of luck and patience, I couldn't reload 9mm for less than about $0.40 per round. Possibly not even that "cheap" because that was my best pricing a week ago. .223 is likely around $0.45-55 per round. IF you can get all the parts. Right now for that price I can get brass and bullets right now, and would have to stalk 8lbers opf powder. More realistically you will find powder in 1lb increments limited to two with full hazmat charge. which would put you at the higher end of that price range if not over. If you want usable ammo ASAP, you should just keep a look out for ammo and be prepared to pay $1 a round or more.
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Grewal Has Been Spanked Hard!
Grewal said he had jurisdiction to enforce NJ laws in other states because internet. He tried to do so. Then he got NJ sued in Texas because that is where DD is located. Then Grewal said nuh-uh we are in NJ, you can't sue us any place but NJ. Which was stupid, because such reasoning never has and never will be true, especially when one of the parties to the suit is located in said state. Then he put on his shocked and dismayed face when the mean old SCOTUS reminded him of this. This wasn't about Grewal trying to get a dismissal. The case proper over the statute and DD's actions is still pending.
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The View From SG Ammo
Like I said, it seems in the range I expected. My point was that just because they have a warehouse, they don't necessarily have the space to spread out their shipping department to meet guidelines. Lots of places are achieving that by a combination of spreading out physically where they can and spreading out in terms of hours with added shifts they might not normally have. It still doesn't mean they have the shipping throughput. Even if they do, the carriers might be limiting the finished boxes out the door. There's lots of ways it can go, but anyone who thinks this situation isn't going to be tricky to navigate as a business is being foolish.
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The View From SG Ammo
It looks like what I expected, which is a sizable steel building, but that is by no means a large warehouse. I did look for info on their site, but no images. Shit it must be a conspiracy, you should never order ammo from any of these companies having shipping issues again.
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The View From SG Ammo
Warehouse is a very loose term. Doesn't mean it is their warehouse. Doesn't even mean they have a warehouse... or shipping people. IT could all be drop shipments of inventory they purchase and store at the warehouse, kind of like lots of businesses do with amazon's warehouse. Although the fact they are advertising for warehouse help implies that isn't the case. Warehouses don't need to be huge to be a warehouse.
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The View From SG Ammo
Keep in mind shipping delays may also be related to having staffing issues related to covid. If you had the packing stations in a room where you can now only fit two because of spacing guidelines, you ship less. Then there’s just the issue of math for figuring out what your nut is. Weird market conditions like now can be very unforgiving of errors.
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3D printed dummy rounds
Yeah that is pretty much what I expected the result to be. 3d printing is fine for making inserts to make dummy rounds out of bras or hulls, but not for the whole round.