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I kind of suspect that s&w holds an ffl. Just maybe. If they are taking ownership of it, they have to put it on their books. There is a record of a transfer. That transfer was legal, and it was not in the state of nj. There's nothing to do. If anyone comes asking, tell them to talk to s&w, and they should wind up contacting them to verify, and be about their business.

Nice idea provided reality lets you never have to shoot on your weak side.

No, they are a place of public accomodation, which severely alters what they can and cannot get away with compared ot actual private property. You want to make a dime running hte public through your spaces, you give up certain privileges that go along with keeping the facilities actually private.

I have a solution. They can deploy it. They can search you. If they don't find the gun, they just cut you a check for say. .. 2.5 million. I'm pretty sure if you get tagged for nothing that you suffer greatly expecting constant persecution.

This is the stupidest ruling. They say stripping is protected by the first amendment which is incorporated. They ruled that they can ignore it of there are alternatives inthe area, and cited SI. Went to appellate court where that said sorry, the alternative must be in nj and sent it back down where this idiot said his ruling stands. Seriously? I'm not one for strip clubs, but even so (and living in Sayreville) I'd contribute to scouts run. Nj judges need to get a smack down or too. Usually for something like this to stand that alternative has to actually be in town.

Oh there's plenty of interesting stuff, just the coverage this year is craptastic. Not all the interesting stuff is NJ relevant though. For example.. the mossberg 930 jerry miculeck edition. It's a 930 with nordic tube and bolt handle, an enlarged safety, a different forend, and some beveling to the loading port as well as chroming of the gas piston. Supposed to start shipping ot ditributors in < 30 days, and places are taking pre-orders with a streeet price of under $580. That's insane. But it is 8+1 or 10+1, and thus not for NJ. Leupold... ignoring their zombie scope... put out a 1-6x version of their 1-8x scope. This is cool because it's still nice optically, but instead of costing nearly $4k it is in theory going to run about $1600-1800. LWRC has a produciton version of what is essentially the honey badger. Which is cool. If you live in a state where you can get an SBR and a silencer. There were a bunch of nice 870 accessories if you want to mess with your 870. There were a lot of good new free float tubes for ARs. There were lots of good lights there, but one could argue too many. There was a lot of nice clothing if you are under 6'2" and not fat and have lots of cash. There just werent' a ton of really interesting guns, which applies to most years. It's not like archery where they replace nearly their entire line up each year. I think what we have seen at this show, gun wise, is stuff we have seen before that you might actually be able to buy. Myslef, I like that a lot more than announcing and upcoming product and it's return appearance at next years shot show for a wrong delivery date, and a special encore appearance at the shot show after that to tell you it's dead jim or might actually be going into production.

Hmm reading around some more, you can apparantly get S&W to reduce the trigger pull weight under warranty. THeoretically to the 7lbs-ish range. http://www.handgunforum.net/smith-wesson-gunsmithing/6048-sigma-trigger.html

I'll be there.

Re: pizza bob's statement, yeah, pretty much all you can do is DIY. There are several writeups out there on how to do it. It's a bit of a PITA, and you CAN get it below 9lbs, but your odds of keeping it reliable are low,a nd once you go too far, it's time to buy new parts. I've seen three versions of it, and I'm not familiar enough with the implicatiosn of the DIY mods that I would feel comfortable endorsing any of them as a good idea. but google sigma trigger fix, and you cna decide for yourself.

A heavier buffer will help slow down an over-gassed gun. If your gun is running reliably, don't go heavier. If you are seeing stuff like failing to strip a round and chanber when it goes back into battery, it is moving too fast, and you could use more delay when it hits the buffer, and a heavier buffer will give you that. Uhh those are carbine buffers. Rifle buffers are longer and have a flange about at about 1/3 in from the end. Unless they are special extra heavy ones, they aren't 5oz. Standard carbine is 3oz, H is 3.8, h2 is 4.6, H3 is 5.4. Pistol carbine buffers are between 5.6 and about 8oz, and standard rifle is 5.2oz.. If you want to be extra picky and go beyond simply accepting the "it isn't malfunctioning, so it must be sufficient", and well gassed, properly sprung, properly weighted buffer setup should not be mangling your brass, and brass should be ejecting with enough oomf to bounce of the brass deflector and land between 1:00 and 3:00 of the shooter. If it is consistently skipping rounds off the brass deflector to land in a 5:00 position, you are getting weak extraction.. which is normal as you get towards the end of the service life of the springs, but isn't something you should be seeing in a new gun.

That was my first thought.

You can do all you want, but if it going to be reliable, 9lbs is about where you are going to wind up. I don't know of any real gunsmiths that will work on them, when you can find them for $290 retail and gunsmiths like to value their labor at abotu $80-100 per hour witha 1 hour minimum, well... Sigmas are cheap as hell for a reason. Most cost effective way to get a better gun is to sell it and buy a better gun.

as far as I can tell, thebulletworks.net is selling plated xtreme bullets. Regardless, they are good, and shipping is the USPS flat rate price of $14 every 2k for 180gr .40. Works out to about $107 per k (shipped, in 2k quantities) for .40 and I have been happy with them. PD is $115 per k (shipped in 2k quantities). plated often can not be worth it in .40 and .45 depending on utility prices and metals prices. I don't think I've ever seen 9mm plated for a great price. Also, TJconvera is part of hte probelm. from x-treme directly, 124 9mm is $74 per k and 3k per USPS flat rate box. So in theory somewhere around $79 per k shipped in 3k quantities. which breaks even with precision delta. Which is often what I ahve seen for 9 when plated is reasonably priced.

From a bullseye FAQ at http://www.doppke.com/~jls/bullfaq/sec3.html "In general, brass preparation is not as important for pistol competition as it is for rifle competition. Bullseye gunsmith and master class shooter Ed Masaki put it this way: I have been building 45 pistols for a long time for many shooters up to HI MASTERS. I always test the guns on a Ransom Rest out to 50 yards. With groups 1 1/2" to 3/4" center to center. I found out that brass does not make a difference in accuracy. I have used mixed and old brasses and they all shot the same groups. What makes the difference in accuracy is how well the pistol is put together, what barrels are used, what bullet and what type of powder is used. Opinions vary a bit, but you don't need to spend time trimming brass, cleaning primer pockets, or any of that other stuff that rifle shooters do. Your brass should be clean and in good condition - always inspect for split necks, big dings in the wall or crushed rims, lest you blow yourself up. That's it. You don't even really need to sort by headstamp, if you don't want to. Most of us do, though." I've seen a number of threads on the subject of trimming pistol brass form newbies on several forums, and not one single post by someone who claims it improves accuracy. LOTS of people who don't do it, and have had no safety or reliability issues (some who have been doing without it for over half a century). Did I mention of those nearly 70k rounds, most have been .40, and the majority of those have been run through a case gauge after loading? Over 30k of range pick up. I even asked around a bit as well as hit up google for more info TRYING to see if I cna come up with a reason to trim pistol brass. The only remotely legit answer I got was that if you are shooting magnum revolver cartridges loaded real hot, and use a roll crimp, you might need to. Also jsut a real heavy roll crimp might cause you to need to. I have also found one instance of someone making 5000 pieces of brass unusable with his 20k plated bullets because the sharp edge would now shave the plating (I guess he chamfered too, which I'm assuming was the really bad idea). It's your life, spend it doing what you want, I wouldn't recommend wasting it trimming straight wall pistol brass for a semi-auto.

Hmm, I'm closing in on 70,000 pistol cartridges reloaded. Many to the point the head stamp is no longer distinct. I've had problems due to flipped primers, and letting the powder run dry while getting a bit distracted. I have one gun that is real picky about how I size my .40 brass. Can't say I've ever trimmed pistol brass or had issues due to that. Clearly it is a critical step that shouldn't be skipped.

Yes, I tried chronoing in 20F with high winds. Wind chill was something stupid like -5. Even xm193 was cycling the gun sluggishly. The wolf was not getting it done. I've shot in some pretty cold weather, I still do if that's the only time I can get to it, but I'll try to avoid it these days.

which is why I suspect it may fail the "device or instrument in the nature of a weapon" part of the statute. Having operated one before, I can't see it being used to effectively cause harm to someone who isn't unconscious and prone, or being held down by multiple people.

If it is int he stock voice recoder app, you cna just email it to anywhere, preferably an acocunt you can read with a real computer, then just save the attachment. It's not hard.

Hmm.. the ukraine video sounds exactly like the noises form the cloverfield monster in cloverfield. But dubbing a movie noise on top of video is outside the realms of possibility compared ot some supernatural event, so it must be supernatural. Watched the denmark video, where "the sound is exactly the same" and didn't hear anything that didn't sound like bad audio of air traffic. The colorado video sounds like any number of things, but nothing like the ukraine video. It also sounds dubbed as everything else sounds like crappy video camera condenser mike, and the bassy noises sound like a professional recording. The florida one sounds like crappy a crappy video cam mic capturing the sound a a deep car exhaust from say a covered porch or something in the rain. The brazil one just sounds like an industrial horn. The UK one sounds like interference from a transformer. I dunno.. one of my first requirements for being concerned about this noise being heard everywhere is that the examples are.. you know... actually similar.. possibly even not redily identified. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmPMN5QOiY

I have an 800 lumen light. It's bright, but not as insane as you'd think. The low mode for it is 400 lumens, and that's nit a huge difference over 230+ lumen lights for common use.

It's a comp, not a flash suppressor. It needs to be pinned or welded, but it's legal. Here's a comparison (the pws is legal).

For bulk pistol bullets jacketed there are the following AFAIK precision-delta (buy form tehir web site) montana gold (buy form their web site, or if you want the bulk buy discount at a lower number, there are other options) zero (don't buy direct, they don't want to deal with small purchases, so if you want them I recommend buying through cz custom, or shooters connection) For plated, there's rainier (soft, use lead data), berrys (harder, can usually use jacketed data), and west coast/x-treme (might be even harder than berrys, I use jacketed data). I don't know who sells rainiers cheaply (probably the best you can do is cabelas if you get a $15 off $150 coupon, and a free shipping promotion), although I loved them in my .45 when bullets were cheap enough I didn't care much. For berrys, powder valley has decent prices. For x-treme (formerly west coast), you can order direct if your order is big enough, and they are what I believe thebulletworks.net sells ont heir site (if it's not them, they are still nice plated bullets). For coated, there's precision bullets, which are accurate, but delicate for the coating and SOFT lead wire. There's also bayou bullets, which smell like burning tires when you shoot them, but the coating is tougher and the lead a bit harder. They are a PITA to get to not smoke a lot, and a PITA to get moving past the 100fps mark without issues. For minor .40 you cna make the 170s shoot really nice though.

Probably the worst recoiling would be 3" 1900fps sbot slugs form a shotgun. marlin .444 out of a 6.5lb gun (loaded) would be number two. Barrett m82-a1 for third. It really feels mostly like shooting a shotgun with your standard 1oz slug.

Technique counts for a lot. More than I would have guessed when I started, or even in the middle of my time shooting production. But I have some videos of me from way back shooting 180-ish power factor factory ammo, and from fairly recently shooting 180-ish reloads (was doing some guesstimating on a new load and wanted to play it safe). The difference in apparent recoil with several years of experience between the two was pretty drastic.

I was going to say rational, but lets perhaps say logical TEOTWAWKI types probably understand that absent laws to the contrary, a nice heavier bonded core .223 will take dear just fine and that most of those laws are there for the stupid an lazy who can't be bothered to understand the difference between a 40gr varmint round and a 68gr bonded core round. It's not a great round for the job, but it will get the job done fairly well without a lot of inventory control. You can also reload it with minimal gear since you aren't dealing with converting a cartridge. Lots of TEOTWAWKI types like using it as an excuse to buy stuff, and they feel the need to harp about how "this purchase will be the deciding factor between life or death! I see dead people around me, and the walking corpses, they are the ones who don't own X!"