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Actually yes you are. To the extent that you must provide your name. USSC decided that in 2004 in Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada. But that is only if your state has a stop and identify statute on the books, which many do. I'm guessing form this CA does not.

8 stages because the classifier was really quick and we had 90 shooters registered. So they put a second short stage on pit 6 with the classifier.

I think the disconnect is that the linked pdf is examining the state of the realestate market from an investment perspective and maximizing your asset value in the long term in exchange for a degree of risk. You on the other hand are looking at it from the perspective of paying as little as possible for a commodity and giving the minimum amount of your income to a bank as interest. From her perspective, with regard to a leveraged asset, there is cheap money and expensive money and the longest, cheapest lever has value. From your perspective, you want the shortest, cheapest lever you can get. Your plan is least risky, but her plan is the most flexible. You call it jumping back in the hole, but as long as you are sticking with a fractional reserve banking model to help grow the money supply, at some point you have to get back to lending. The author is, I believe , suggesting that looking at the metrics, you can expect lending patterns to get back to at least pre-bubble levels. Which in their opinion is a positive indicator that the market is at or near its bottom as historically those levels permitted slow steady growth. As far as unemployment, nobody EVER really has a rock solid job, at some point you have to bite the bullet and take risks. I suspect that most of this was written up before the most recent unemployment numbers. What had been the trend was a degree of stability interspersed with minor improvement. Combine the two, and you have what points to a stabilizing market that you can start making predictions about growth, and at least be looking at an asset that you can get your money back out of. Additionally, she does take it into account in a sideways sort of way. Basically in terms of employment, you aren't likely to see wages rising quickly, or people able to effectively increase their income by significant amounts quickly by job hopping. Those people are budgeting more conservatively. This is leading to a boom in the rental market and rapidly increasing rents. So unless those people opt for homelessness, they will either pay higher rents deciding that is the most affordable, or the market will toggle back to seeing the more fixed cost of a mortgage that also gains you an asset as being more sensible. The former scernario makes buying homes for renting out more attractive and likely to increase, the latter makes owner occupied sales increase. Another point she is making is that we've been focusing on the market as a national whole, and for the last good while, the markets WERE trending together and simply varying the rate at which they slid or built up surpluses. Now, you have some pretty severe differences in market in terms of growth, surplusses, prices trending up or down, etc. Some markets are much more ripe for long term gains than others. The federal government, like she says, HAS bought themselves time to figure out how to fix things. They also seem intent on pissing away that time doing nothing useful. From her perspective, all she thinks thhey need ot do is hold the line, which is a possibility. But do I agree with her? No, and I suspect lots of people who are interested in making money agree with me. I think the only place she has a legit point is that we may be getting real close to that sweet spot where you can earn the most money over the life of your investment with regards to rental properties. Outside of that, I think two key factors that she doesn't cover are the market effects that the last of the silent generation and the boomers are going to bring about, and the fact that gen Y are kind of screwed in terms of lifetime earning potential. The silent generation and the boomers are headed to the grave. They make up a large population, and heralded in smaller family sizes. They also still own a buttload of realestate. When they die, they are going to be putting that realestate on the market one way or the other and will contribute to inventory surplusses for probably the next 10-15 years. Those same boomers have been sitting on choice jobs for decades. Some will go away, and the rest have had gen Xers lined up waiting for their turn for a while, and that line stretches back to near entry level jobs. Those jobs will have massive pressure from even younger generations as they wait their turn, which likely isn't coming. Gen Y is going to be composed of marginal earners without something major changing. From my perspective that means it will be a LONG time before you see general bidding wars over properties, and unless you have a 3rd party footing the bill (renters), at best your property will keep up with inflation in terms of value. Even at current low rates, that makes it not an investment IMO. If I could, there are definitely places I would consider getting into the landlord business.

I've got my problems worked out. My main gripe is it used to just be the occasional thing that was few and far between. I ordered a lot of hornady gear last year, and ran about 50% on something being missing from the box or defective (mostly not all the parts being there). To make it more annoying, their CS is pretty hit or miss with regards to being nice/conforntational, helpful/clueless, and actually delivering you any replacement parts. I think all of the above has been made worse by them having higher sales volume.

Because sportsman's guide is functionally brain damaged. I tried dealing with them about things in the past, and essentially their rules are made up. Near as I cna tell, rather than have an time flagged per state, each inventory item has a restriction code. That code represents a grouping of states. An item gets whatever code was keyed in by some data entry monkey, right or wrong, and there is no means of fixing it. The best ones are when there are two equivalent items with different restriction codes so brand A of an item cna come to a state, but brand B of the SAME THING cannot.

Also, as long as stuff is impacting the berms, you can shoot rifles in the pistol pits. I believe pit 4 & 5 can get you a 25 meter range. IIRC you can get to 32 yards in pit 5 without safety issues.

I'm not a glock fan, but the g19 points better for me than any other glock. I'm not the only one with that experience for some reason. That and 15 round magazines would make me consider it over a full size in NJ. However, for the CZ, I can't say that there is any reason to go for a compact model. The full sized versions all are a better experience in actual use IMO.

I own a LnL AP, have for many years. I also bought a case feeder last year. Yes, it had tons of problems. Mostly related to the fact that they made some odd/poor design choices, and the fact that I load .40, and for some reason hornady decided to make the thing very .40 unfriendly. Pretty much every part is a bit too big or a bit too small for .40. I USED to say that the AP was as good a press as a 650. THe problem is Hornady has worked hard to prove me wrong. With the exception of the bad choice of sizing on drop tube parts on the case feeder, I think their engineering is fine. However, their packing, QC, and total willingness to not ship a part and expect you to figure it out later and get it via warranty, or to ship a bad batch of some part until they ahve shipped them all out and have you figure out it is wrong and wait for a replacement under warranty. I have powder measures with voids in the casting that went out the door. Lots of people are having problems currently with subplate assemblies that are just a bit too thick for the primer ram to work right. I've gotten powder measures with parts missing out of the box recently. I've talked ot people who have gotten presses and case feeders with parts missing. They shipped out a batch of presses with drive hubs that were cast badly and cracked in short order. They replaced them under warranty with the SAME batch of drive hubs until they either got a replacement lot, or simply used them up. That's just stupid. In many ways, I think the current iteration of the LnL AP goes toe to toe with the 650 but with a simpler implementation of many features (which I generally consider a good thing). The problem is I'm not sure you can get that machine from hornady without a giant headache these days.

I'm not a big fan of sayreville sportsman. I buy primers there, and some cleaning supplies, but thats about it. Those things have one price on them, and when I forgot to add something to a big order, or I want to keep my primer supply topped up without paying a hazmat fee, it's worthwhile. The ammo selection has become awful, and trying to buy a gun is just a PITA. You don't need to like your customers if they pay. Your customers do need to like you enough to come back. There's always someone to tell me that the place is great for them, but at best every time I walk in I get the vibe I'm interrupting someone's social hour. At worst, it's kind of hostile. Depends who is behind the counter.

Everyone I have seen transport on a bike had either saddlebags or panniers.

I have never been arrested much less convicted, I have no prior records. I don't drink or do drugs. So there has never been paraphernalia in plain sight. I've only been pulled over for more than 20 over once. I don't go fishing around for documentation, I put both hands on the wheel until the officer can see what I'm doing. I also try to be polite. I've had guns drawn on me in a traffic stop at least six times for no reason other than what I drive or how i was dressed. I've been asked to consent to a search at least five times. After the first time, I refused to consent. Sorry, there is no upside to consent. If the cop is the type to harass you because you said no, they aren't one of the good ones anyway. After a lot of thought and a bit of research, I came up with my simple canned reply to a request to search. It's "I don't know. What's your reasonably articulable suspiscion?" most traffic stops have audio recording, and I have yet to find one cop who wanted to go on record about that up front. It precludes them changing their story to cover their a**, and most consent searches are either total fishing, or to get nail the search 100% without the ability for their RAS to be questioned in court.

BTW, anyone who is willing to do scores reliably who will be at most matches, or is nearby enough to Sayreville to get the paper scores to them, we always accept volunteers.

Nope, the thread is about things you changed your mind about. You completely got the point.

Where you see those? Lowest price I could find is palmetto state armory, and even theirs is $49.99 unless you get the one without a FCG. It's definitely not the best kit either. Next cheapest I found was $60, but that was actually for a decent LPK. You still have to add like $7 shipping to both of those prices.

It requires less machine time, which I think is the main issue. Less machine time means cheaper, but more importantly it means they can get through their order backlog quicker without expanding production capacity of their facility. So the lower margin guns get the chain link. It is actually pretty darn effective without being abusive to your skin.

I recommend d-lead wipes over the babay wipes. BUt basically, there are no facilities other than pits, some shooting benches, porta potties and some storage for the club.

Landlords can have a no firearms clause. Perfectly legal. The only thing you have to worry about if you break it is being evicted and owing them money according to the terms of the contracts. HOWEVER, there is multiple precedents that if a landlord restricts your ability to own firearms, they assume a degree of liability for your safety. The examples I have seen of this have all been complexes rather than mom & pop type places. Obviously because complexes have more assets worth suing for, so those are the cases that got taken. Most large complexes in NJ don't have a firearms clause because they know there is liability associated with it.

This is the internet. Lots of folks love to miss the point and talk loudly about it. "the chart" is one of those things that attract those people.

I hope this is filed as an improvement patent, there's tons of prior art actually for sale for the general concept.

They have dropped the giant rollmarks on a number of their guns in more recent production. They are starting ot get the message a lot of folks don't like it, but not enough to advertise the change as a feature.

In general, I err on that side of things too, but that really isn't that expensive anymore unless you want to do it with some oddball platform. For example, I think 18" barreled FALs are really cool. But I really don't want to pay for one that can hold MOA out to 300 yards compared to say building up and ar-10 style rifle. The reality is I'd rather get good at say hitting a 6 inch plate at 100 yards quickly with my ar-15 unsupported. Since my change of heart, I realized there's a whole pile of things that, from the shooter side of the equation, are matters of accuracy but still pretty achievable with a 2 moa rifle. I wouldn't consider a 2moa rifle all that accurate, but that may just be a matter of cultural bias induced by folks who think only accurate guns are interesting. Would I like to have a 1000 yard rifle? Sure, in a perfect world. Would I like to learn to shoot 1000 yard shots? Hell yeah, I love learning new things. But without a range a short drive away to accommodate practicing such, I doubt I'll get the chance to do that. But I'll say it again, since nobody has really added much to it. What have you changed your mind about since starting shooting. I'll add one more. I used to think heavy guns were preferable. Now I think lighter guns are better. There's definitely such a thing as too light, but you want to keep it as light as you can without it being detrimental. Not saying any of these things are facts, just changed opinions.

It reinforces what I decided a while agor reading between the lines of various studies. PAck waht you like .380 and up. Make sure it is good ammo. If you need to stop a person you are going to have to shoot them twice and odds are you'll only hit about 50% of the time under stress. So 4 bullets per individual you want to pose a credible risk to.

So, what have you changed your mind about the more experience you get under your belt shooting? I used to be a big believer in the old adage that "only accurate guns are interesting". Especially in this area, it doesn't take a lot of money, time, or effort to be accurate enough that you have run out of range before running out of gun. My most accurate rifle and pistol rarely make it out of the safe, mainly because they are boring rather than interesting. Not to mention that other than working your brain a bit working up a good load, most of it is about learning to pull the trigger like a machine, and learning to read the wind. Learning to read the wind well is useful, but not very easy to do without more than 300 yards of range available to you. Even then, the whole thing was one-dimensional and pretty boring. Accurate guns aren't interesting, versatile, well rounded guns are interesting and fun, and becoming a versatile and well rounded shooter is interesting and fun. Fun guns get shot, and being good with a gun makes it more fun. Another thing I used to believe was that a cool looking gun justifies its place in the safe just by looking cool. These days I believe that cool looking guns can be looked at on the internet for free. Heck, I'll still pay extra for a cool looking gun over something I find less appealing all else being equal, but to part me from my money, it has to bring much more than looks to the table. I also used to believe that a picky, specialized gun was OK. These days, I can't abide a gun that doesn't run well and reliably. If it doesn't do both, you are either asking too much of the platform, tried to be cheap where it wasn't worth it, or made a bad decision about something you did to your gun.

No preregistration. Compared to normal outdoor matches, they don't usually draw as large a crowd, so there shouldn't be an issue with regards to capacity. I'm counting on the usual nasty heat of august plus the fact it is a classifier match to keep attendance to a reasonable number. Of course this could be the time that proves that wrong. We'll find out. The only thing to remember is that if you don't have a USPSA number, you will be paying a premium to shoot a lower round count match for fun. So...

Yeah except placing a protected right on the other side of an onerous fee designed to place it outside the reach of most people has been shot down in many places before. It's a well trod path form the civil rights era. Also, if it steps outside of the state law, it will time number 182372174518736534765896314650183640126734 that SF has had to be smacked upside the head to try to make it understand they can't preempt state law.