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ANJRPC is worthy of a lot of contempt. For my entire history as a gun owner, they have either sat by silently, played fudd turning their backs on non-hunters, or demonstrated they exist in the mold of pre-1994 NRA leadership where they at best apply lube sparingly to the legislation coming at you. The NRA-ILA is largely absent and counters the notion that they do nothing in NJ by pointing at the ANJRPC and say they are your state NRA affiliated org. That's either a sign of incredible stupidity, or just underlines how much they have abandoned the state. If it weren't for their federal presence, and the fact that a national org they seem to have moved away from the stance of constant capitulation to fighting the fight, they wouldn't see dime one of my money. Look at the Coalition of NJ sportsmen. Started good with legal challenges to the magazine ban and AWB, turned into a collection of fudds ready to throw you under the bus. Watched the New Jersey Coalition for self defense turn into an ego-based circle jerk from beginnings where it seemed to get the notion that we need to lobby in a manner other than the ANJRPC has been doing. NJ2AS might be banging their head against a wall, but at least you can hear them doing it. SAF might not be ideal, they are very lawyerly and sometimes that means you make judgments based on the legal system and not what is right. You wind up resembling lawyer jokes, but that's how it works. I've seen them show up and ledn their voice to my side of the argument IN NJ more than I have seen ANJRPC or the NRA do it. Which is beyond sad. The jury is still out on the CNJFO. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, mostly because Smokin .50 is involved and I know he's not looking to sit around with his thumb up his butt for notoriety and he doesn't want to throw anyone under the bus. They also have active events going on and if they are mired in chaos in their inception, they are keeping it from the general populace, which indicates they have something resembling functioning leadership. They also seem to be involved in the ANJRPC and NRA behaving at a level above where they are indiscernible from moss growing on a tree. All of the above, in NJ, are/have been incestuous in terms of leadership and/or membership. There's going to be resentment and axes to grind. Hopefully folks work it all out and we wind up with something functioning. Don't expect differences of opinion to go away though. It's also likely that you will wind up with an NRA like org and a GOA like org playing good cop bad cop.

You might pay more if you want lightened or some other feature that requires better materials or more machine time/labor. Outside of that, if going for accuracy, you usually want the barrel extension headspaced to the specific bolt you will be using in the rifle. If you go that route, and any bundled bolt is basically at best spare parts, I'd shop in that context. and go with something basic but functional like you have suggested.

Lots of pro gun control people are of that opinion because they project their own emotional unsuitability onto others. They know they shouldn't be trusted with a gun, but they refuse to admit that they might not be the most capable and competent person in the room.

1.5 lbs can be worth $500. The difference between 11.5 pounds and 10 pounds is not. My $0.02.

That's not comparable to what you made though. That one runs $250. I bought one used for $125 from a fellow forum member, which was a good deal. I was going to build one off a stroller, but the problem is that prices vary stupidly regionally. Locally they were bottoming out at $80 or effectively destroyed. Even the $80 ones were pretty haggard. If I wanted good prices, I was going to have to spend 2-3 hours in the car and drop 20 bucks on gas and come out saving maybe $10. I think longer term the supply is screwed. Most of the jogging strollers on the used market weren't chosen becuase people jogged, but because they were ostentatious or more likely mimicking the really high end strollers at a less insane price. Now the new joggers are in the $300-$700 range with a few exceptions. The want to pretend I'm rich demographic has moved on to weird 4 wheeled strollers with ~6" wheels up front and ~8" wheels out back that won't work well for gun carts.

It's more OSHA lifting than gold's gym lifting.

Rimless cartridges head space off the case mouth. An empty case will sit as deep in a guage as a loaded one. However, a shorter case will drop in too far. The less superior method of looking for oddballs in the ammo boxes comes down to different appearances overall, or the fact that a given press setup won't necessarily seat two different calibers that can make it through the press to the same length.

Even if you aren't gauging every round, there's a good reason to use ammo boxes rather than the sticking them in a jug or zip lock like a lot of people do. When you have something wonky, but case head interchangeable, you will see which one of these things is not like the others.

Yes, most people who argue for pumps are arguing form the backpacker mind set. And just aren't getting their head around the notion of an emergency disposable filter. Like I said before. For a crash bag, the lifestraw is an excellent fit. OR the sawyer equivalent. They sell a kit with a cheap flat pack squeeze bottle. https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Products-SP128-Filtration-System/dp/B00FA2RLX2/ref=pd_sim_468_6?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00FA2RLX2&pd_rd_r=SSWT8PVJ01CCH28TRT83&pd_rd_w=9NEqB&pd_rd_wg=E3M38&psc=1&refRID=SSWT8PVJ01CCH28TRT83&dpID=51mVWHQb1wL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=detail You can buy a 3 pack of the squeeze bottles for $9 and have options if you encounter potable water. Smaller, lighter, and about $60 cheaper than a pump.

Lifestraw is good stuff. You just need to be sure you are matching the product to your need appropriately. Yes, a good pump filter beats a lifestraw, but it's not really about the quality of what comes out the back end rather the overal capability of the product. For example, the lifestraw can get clogged up with non life threatening muck and it is done. Many pump filters, you can clean the pre filter elements and be back in business. Most pumps can service multiple people with effort. A single life straw less so. I think a crash bag in the car is a good fit for a life straw. A cheap water bladder modified to accept the in-line life straw might be even better. Their family sized filter is a some good cheap SHTF insurance fro a natural disaster. it's fine enough to filter out a good chunk of viruses, which their straws are not. You can regularly get them on sale for about $50.

I must have missed this reply a while ago. SO you can thank ray-ray and his video if you find this useful. AS mentioned previously, it appears that in a 16" carbine, you are burning all your powder up before you reach the end. Pistol noise is expanding, HOT gasses. Even if you are supersonic, if you are hitting max velocity at 10" of barrel due to gas no longer expanding faster than the bullet is moving, you are net resulting in slower expanding gas by the time you uncork the tube. Additionally, you would have ~6" of barrel acting like a bloop tube, which can tame noise a bit. If you had enough, it would be like those insanely long, ultra quiet, but not actually legally suppressed shotguns they use for culling wild animals in residential areas. You also get 16" of barrel playing heat sink. Taking the heat out of expanding gasses should reduce the rate of expansion (which may factor into my previously related chrono experience, it might not all be friction, but in part sucking some energy out of the expanding gasses). I must have missed this reply a while ago. SO you can thank ray-ray and his video if you find this useful. AS mentioned previously, it appears that in a 16" carbine, you are burning all your powder up before you reach the end. Pistol noise is expanding, HOT gasses. Even if you are supersonic, if you are hitting max velocity at 10" of barrel due to gas no longer expanding faster than the bullet is moving, you are net resulting in slower expanding gas by the time you uncork the tube. Additionally, you would have ~6" of barrel acting like a bloop tube, which can tame noise a bit. If you had enough, it would be like those insanely long, ultra quiet, but not actually legally suppressed shotguns they use for culling wild animals in residential areas. You also get 16" of barrel playing heat sink. Taking the heat out of expanding gasses should reduce the rate of expansion (which may factor into my previously related chrono experience, it might not all be friction, but in part sucking some energy out of the expanding gasses).

Its for free until you notice that the plan without it is $20 cheaper, and the two service plan you get for that $20 retails for about $10. So.... Yeah. You are paying for the service and another $10 for the 'free' bandwidth.

If they haven't redefined them based on NY, CA congressional reps and the former mayor daley crying about the "blackpowder loophole", while Obama was in charge of them, then I doubt they will change much. Them deciding the internals of such a thing are suppressor parts and thus restricted seems much more feasible.

Rays used to sell them during the AWB. The one thing you need that might not be there, and wasn't potentially ambiguous form sellers back then, is the comp needs to be permanently attached. FYI, Rays back then had stick 10 rounders and drum 10 rounders. They were just blocked off weirdly inside and mostly dead space. http://www.auto-ordnance.com/long-gun-magazines/thompson-t12bkt-10-round-drum-magazine-qtmt12bkt.asp

yeah some supplier screwed up. If you bought an M&P branded lower parts kit of the right vintage, they have a recall too for hammers with improper heat treatment. http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/09/daniel-zimmerman/battenfield-technologies-recalls-mp-ar-15-complete-lower-parts-kits/

I'm going to quote a poster from a discussion on this elsewhere because I really can't put it any better myself. But, but there are so many co-sponsors!! I explained to someone a few months back that a spike in co-sponsors – especially from those in tight electoral districts – means a bill is dead. The spike means the bill is being used as an opportunity to take credit for supporting something (reciprocity) without the harm of it becoming law. So a co-sponsor can go back and say, “Hell, I even co-sponsored the bill!” when in reality they are whispering to the House Speaker, “I really don’t want to take that vote before my election.” When Ryan says the timing is not right, that’s what he meant. Right now GOP members get to have it both ways – “supporting” reciprocity while not being responsible for it passing. Proof: There are enough co-sponsors today on HR 38 (the reciprocity act) that they can pretty much force a floor vote even without a committee vote. If they want this out of the House, they can do it without Ryan. Of course, that would assume “co-sponsor” is someone wishing to pass the bill into law, instead of someone looking to virtue signal on a bill that will never become law. So don’t hold your breath.

Carbine length forearms are stupid. going c-clampish on them won't feel all that great because the awkward middle of your reach is where they max out in terms of real estate. As for the ruger SR556, you are blaming the rail for weight in a piston gun. Yah ok. I guarantee I could sit you down with your rifle, a timer, one built for handling nicely with an eye on weight and a longer handguard, and get you beating the magwell grip times in very short order. It'd probably take you a bit to feel comfortable with it. But that's familiarity, not efficacy.

I saw that article elsewhere. I think one thing it misses, which you would if you weren't a shooter, is that you are getting more women shooters because dads are more involved in raising the kids in modern households. Range time becomes quality time, and for whatever reason, more daughters are there than sons taking advantage of such.

Do keep in mind that often, as long as you buy in bulk, you can buy once fired brass and leave it at the range and still come up cheaper than retail. It is borderline and fluctuates with the various market conditions. I recently picked up .40 brass for $0.25 per k. If I never re-used a case, a round costs me less than $0.17 cheapest .40 on the search engines is $0.195 per round for something new manufacture that isn't tailored to my needs (but does at least make major pf). And that's with deep discounts on ammo right now. It's usually more.

You'd need to go look at cases such as New Jersey v. T.L.O, which have established that schools acting in loco parentis aren't immune from the protections of the 4th amendment, however it grants them significant leeway. In this case I would suspect that maintaining order/sobriety at a school run sporting event would fall within their permitted abilities perform a search. The medical nature of said search would fall under their abilities as presumed temporary guardians/custodians of the students.

Schools act in loco parentis when students are in their care. You would be surprised what they can legally do and authorize.

Oh yeah and gunsmiths would just be an 01.

there are 8 01 to 11, no 04 or 05 as far as the ATF says. https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/types-federal-firearms-licenses-ffls

So you had the magic web site that had 22 when nobody else did? You never had shopping monkeys scatter your ammo all over creation and sorry if cream it back in the box and tape it up? And you have never had a bull factory round? Then you don't shoot a lot, sorry. None of those things are all that rare.

I have a barska 20-60x80. Definitely a good value for the money when on sale. Konus 20-60x100 is probably the best bang for the buck I have run into. If one needs serious magnification on a budget, I'd hit up the telescope companies and look into their small Maksutov-Cassegrain type scopes. I haven't used them for shooting, but for daylight viewing, it's hard to get more magnification for the money.